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Surgical mechanic, Arthur Hehl, establishes a company in Lossburg for producing precision instruments for medical applications.
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The definitive name for the company, ARBURG, goes back to one of Karl Hehl's ideas. In 1943, he was asked to come up with a name for the company when he was in Normandy. That name is still used today.
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Initial entrepreneurial success in the post-war period with the production of urgently needed consumer goods such as wire baskets, locks, clamp rings for babies bottles and hairclips.
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Production switched to flash units for the developing amateur photography sector.
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Owing to insulation problems at the connection between the flash units and cameras, Karl Hehl designed a machine for encapsulating the contacts with plastic.
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Start of the series production of injection moulding machines with ten employees owing to the large market demand. Industrial property rights obtained for swivelling injection unit and parting line mechanism.
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Sale of the 1,000th injection moulding machine, construction of the first fully pneumatic injection moulding machine, the C4/b.
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Patenting of the "ALLROUNDER principle" for achieving up to ten different working positions on a machine by swinging out the clamping unit and repositioning the injection unit.
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Thanks to ARBURG's technological edge in the sector, the first jointly-developed automated two-colour mould is presented.
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Development and production of the first two-colour machine.
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Start of building extension work under the direction of Eugen Hehl. Launch of the first hydraulic unscrewing unit on an ALLROUNDER 200 S. Implementation of the modular system for ALLROUNDERs through the use of the respective smaller injection unit on the next largest machine.
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500th machine sold to a customer in Japan.
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Second extension phase begins at the plant. The export share is of 47 per cent, domestic sales account for 53 per cent. The patent for two-colour injection moulding is made available to ARBURG customers free of charge.
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ALLROUNDER 260 with mould for injection blow-moulding has its world premiere. The first electronic control system, POLYTRONICA, injection process control used for the first time on the ALLROUNDERs. Construction of a central production control system.
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50-year company anniversary. Building phase adds 24,000 square meters of useable floorspace to the company's production area. More than 10,000 injection moulding machines sold, more than 700 patents and registered designs filed.
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ARBURG is the first manufacturer world-wide with microprocessor control systems for the ALLROUNDERs.
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More than 500 employees. Completion of the multi-purpose administration building.
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Interval and sandwich processes on the ALLROUNDER 221, 5,000th training course participant.
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ARBURG is nominated as an “IBM pilot company”.
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The 25,000th ALLROUNDER leaves the production site. First LSR processing on ALLROUNDERs.
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First machine with graphical user interface.
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German president awards certificate to honour excellent vocational training scheme.
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Opening of the first subsidiary outside Germany, in Paris. Completion of the ARBURG I building phase under the direction of Eugen Hehl: 100,000 square meters of floorspace are available.
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Modular automation systems. The ALLROUNDER 370 CMD is the first machine with installation and removal of the plasticising cylinder.
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CIM introduced to process customer orders more quickly.
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More than 1,000 employees.
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International debut of the VARIO principle with freely displaceable injection unit.
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Launch of the ALLROUNDER T rotary table machine with horizontal working area and vertical injection unit.
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More than 1,500 employees around the world.
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With the SELOGICA machine control system, a new control generation was presented which is used across the board in all the ALLROUNDERs.
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Launch of the ALLROUNDER S.
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Around 1,700 employees world-wide.
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75 years of the Hehl family business. Launch of the anniversary machine, the ALLROUNDER C JUBILEE.
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Launch of the ALLROUNDER 630 S.
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Opening of ARBURG II adding a further 36,000 square meters of floorspace to the production area. Around 1,900 employees world-wide. Launch of the modular MULTILIFT H robotic system.
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Launch of the ALLROUNDER 720 S, the vertical MULTILIFT V robotic system as well as the ALLROUNDER A, with modular expansion possible to a fully-electric machine.
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Launch of the ALLROUNDER 820 S with a clamping force of 4,000 kN as well as the ALLROUNDER C advance with a combination of hydraulic and servo-electric axes. Launch of the MULTILIFT HV, which individually combines vertical and horizontal removal axes.
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"MODULARITY ALLROUND", the new corporate slogan illustrates how the ARBURG technology concept is implemented: Modules are attached to the individual machines and production concepts, which precisely fulfil the processors' requirements.
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New ALLROUNDER U series
New tie-bar manufacturing unit with integrated plasma-nitriding system which uses ARNOX technology to improve the corrosion and sliding properties of the tie-bars.
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Generation change: With Juliane Hehl, Renate Keinath and Michael Hehl the management of the company passes into the third generation of the owner families.
Presentation of the new vertical machine ALLROUNDER 175 V
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ARBURG celebrates its golden anniversary "50 years of ARBURG injection moulding machines"
Launch of the anniversary series ALLROUNDER GOLDEN EDITION and the ALLROUNDER 920 S with a clamping force of 5,000 kN
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ARBURG places its activities in 2007 under the slogan “Allrounder International” and underlines thereby its long-standing philosophy: high-tech services for high-tech production – throughout the entire world!
Ground-breaking for new the ARBURG Customer Centre in Lossburg
New continuous hydraulic ALLROUNDER S series with clamping force from 125 to 5,000 kN
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