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Engel sets up manufacturing site in Serbia

Stefan Engleder, CEO of Engel Group

Austrian machinery maker Engel is expanding its global production network with the establishment of a manufacturing site in Kikinda, Serbia. The family-owned company says it is strengthening its competitiveness and value chain in Europe for the long term. Customers in European and American markets in particular will benefit from shorter lead times and greater supply reliability, it adds.

The new site in Serbia is part of a targeted evolution of Engel's European manufacturing architecture. The focus is on relocating mechanical manufacturing operations to make better use of international location advantages and establish a resilient European supply chain. In the first phase, a 13,000 sq m facility in Kikinda will be dedicated to produce machined components. Around 150 employees are planned to be recruited over the first three years. As a result, Engel says its Austrian plants will gain capacity to focus on more demanding, customer-specific system solutions.

"The new Kikinda site complements our existing plants across Europe," says Stefan Engleder, CEO of Engel Group. "It improves our cost efficiency and gives us greater flexibility compared to sourcing directly from Asia. Our Austrian plants will have more room to focus on what we do best: highly complex, tailored system solutions that are in demand worldwide."

Kikinda stands out for its workforce and an industrial infrastructure that has grown over decades – both of which enable seamless integration into Engel's existing European production network, it adds.

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