FoamPartner: New converting centre for technical foams
FoamPartner Fritz Nauer AG with headquarters in Wolfhausen, Switzerland, is building a converting centre for industrial foams at its site in Duderstadt, Germany. The new centre is scheduled to go on-stream in H1 2020 and will lead to the creation of several new jobs, said the company.
“There is a rising demand for custom-tailored technical foams in specialised industrial application areas,” said Dr. Michael Riedel, CEO of FoamPartner. “For this reason, we have decided to build a new converting centre that meets this trend and will significantly expand our supply capacities for industrial foam products.”
FoamPartner is expanding the manufacturing capacities at its Duderstadt site in Lower Saxony, Germany, with a new converting centre for industrial specialty foams. (Source: FoamPartner)
The centre will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology to provide customised technical foam solutions for various applications. Solutions are particularly aimed at acoustics, sealing and filtering, as well as in household, surface treatment and packaging segments. The centre will mainly process foam materials from the company’s own three European production sites in Leverkusen, Duderstadt and Wolfhausen.
Several different manufacturing cells in the converting centre will deliver customer-specific products. It will be using advanced control and process technologies amongst others in cutting, stamping, milling, drilling, laminating and packaging. In addition, there will be a small-scale machining centre for customised speciality products in lower volumes.
According to FoamPartner, with a floor space of 8,500 m2, the converting centre for industrial speciality foams represents an overall investment of approximately EUR 10 million. Following the construction approval by the local authorities, work on the centre has already started, with inauguration scheduled for the first half-year of 2020. Moreover, Duderstadt will also take over most of the production business of the group’s site at Stadtallendorf, Germany, which is expected to close operations by end of June 2020 for infrastructural and technical reasons. The consolidation of its European manufacturing sites will strengthen the company’s competitive standing in the market and will have no impact on the reliable supply of products to customers, said FoamPartner.
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