Press release

New managing director at the ENGEL Group

Schwertberg, Austria – October 2012. Dipl.-Ing. Dr Stefan Engleder will become ENGEL Holding's new Head of Technology and Production on 1st October 2012.

Dr Stefan Engleder has been working in the plastics and machine tool industry for the last ten years and during this period has participated in the technical development of various well-known international companies in Germany and Canada. When the doctorate mechanical engineer joined ENGEL in 2008, he was given responsibility for the development and market launch of the ENGEL viper linear robot range. He then became Factory Manager at ENGEL Automatisierungstechnik in Dietach.

As a result of Stefan Engleder's appointment as CTO, there are now two family members in the management team, with Dr Peter Neumann already CEO. This is very much in line with the group's philosophy of combining tradition with innovation and means that four generations of the family who own the ENGEL Group have now been involved in running it. Mag. Christian Pum, CSO, and Mag. Gotthard Mayringer, CFO, complete ENGEL's four-man management team.

ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH

ENGEL is one of the global leaders in the manufacture of plastics processing machines. Today, the ENGEL Group offers a full range of technology modules for plastics processing as a single source supplier: Injection moulding machines for thermoplastics and elastomers, and automation, with the assurance that individual components are also competitive and successful in the world markets. With eight production plants in Europe, North America and Asia (China, Korea), subsidiaries and representatives in over 85 countries, ENGEL offers its customers the optimal global support they need to compete and succeed with new technologies and leading-edge production systems.

Contact for journalists:

Gerd Liebig, Group Marketing Director, ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH
Ludwig-Engel-Strasse 1, A-4311 Schwertberg, Austria
Tel.: +43 (0)50 620 3800, fax: -3009, email:

Susanne Zinckgraf, Manager Public Relations, ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH,
Ludwig-Engel-Strasse 1, A-4311 Schwertberg/Austria,

PR-Office: Theodor-Heuss-Str. 85, D-67435 Neustadt/Germany,
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ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH, A-4311 Schwertberg/Austria,

Tel.: +43 50 620-0, Fax: +43 50 620-3009
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