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In this Edition September 2011 |
LEAD FEATURE |
COMPANY NEWS |
MATERIALS NEWS |
MACHINERY NEWS |
ENVIRONMENT NEWS |
INJECTION MOULDING ASIA |
RUBBER JOURNAL ASIA |
 ELECTRONIC ISSUE |
PRA September 2011 Electronic Issue Now Available |
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Injection Moulding Asia
New owner for robot firm
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lexis, which owns German high-speed robot company Hekuma, has been bought by SMS, a German industrial conglomerate. SMS had already owned some shares and the final purchase gives SMS an 84.46% stake.SMS, which now mainly owns companies that make machinery for the steel industry, sold its stakes in plastic machinery firms Battenfeld, American Maplan and Cincinnati Extrusion in 2007. Hekuma produces high-speed takeout robots and automation systems for medical products such as injection moulded petri dishes and pipettes and in-mould labelling (IML) systems for injection moulding. The company also sells IML equipment for thermoforming.