Coperion secures majority stake in PELL-TEC
Product portfolio now extended to include pelletizing technology
With effect from January 1, 2012, Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart, has acquired a majority stake in PELL-TEC Pelletizing Technology GmbH, Niedernberg, Germany. Established over ten years ago, PELL-TEC supplies pelletizing systems to customers operating in the plastics processing and recycling industry. PELL-TEC’s product portfolio covers the entire pelletizing process from melt discharge through to the ready-to-use pellets. The pelletizing systems are capable of output rates of up to 6,000 kg/hr and display the highest degree of flexibility, a feature that is absolutely indispensable in view of the enormous diversity of polymers and formulations for which they are used. With this majority stake in PELL-TEC, Coperion has taken a further consistent step in strengthening its competence as a systems supplier and is now also able to supply tailor-made pelletizing solutions for small and medium-sized extruders – as complete systems from just one supplier.
“As a majority stakeholder in PELL-TEC Pelletizing Technology GmbH,” says Thomas Kehl, a member of the Executive Board of Coperion GmbH, “Coperion has taken a logical step towards substantiating the already successful business partnership between our two companies. In the future we shall work together with PELL-TEC on the further development of the existing range of strand pelletizing systems, our main objective being to extend the size range across all output requirements.”
“For PELL-TEC the decision to join forces with Coperion was certainly the right one to take,” says PELL-TEC’s joint managing director Michael Schuler. “With Coperion’s support we shall not only be able to develop new markets but also expand the service we can offer our customers – from planning and commissioning through to the after-sales supply of spare parts.”
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