highly
sought after in China
Fill Machine Engineering establishes wholly-owned
subsidiary in China. Presence in the largest automotive market in the world
generates new opportunities.
Fill
China was recently established with a head office in Shanghai. The new overseas
branch of the company will allow the Upper Austrian machine engineering
specialists to deal with the emerging Chinese market even more rigorously. Fill
machines are already being used successfully at ten locations throughout China.
With production of around 19 million vehicles (cars and commercial vehicles) per
year, China is the world´s largest market in the automotive sector. And it´s
growing rapidly. The aerospace industry is also booming in the Middle Kingdom.
Above all, quality "made by Fill" is highly sought after in China.
Gurten,
4th June 2014 –
In recent years, China has developed into one of the world´s most important
foundry markets. This is primarily due to the up-and-coming automotive industry.
Fill Machine Engineering supplies many renowned automotive manufacturers in
Europe and America with production systems for manufacturing cylinder heads and
in the field of aluminum casting. Attention has now been turned to the business
in China. "We are currently working on seven projects in China, with a total
order value of around 16 million euros. The founding of Fill China with a
five-strong sales and service team places us closer to the customer and will
allow us to further expand our position as a market and technological leader,"
explains Thomas Rathner, General Manager of Fill China and Head of the Metal
Competence Center at Fill.
Huge
potential
Rapid
growth of the Chinese market in the automotive and composite sectors is
stimulating demand for high-quality machines and systems. Above all, huge
potential for casting, cooling and raw part machining systems exists here in
aluminum and iron foundries. Demand for fiber-reinforced composites is also
rising continuously. These fields number among Fill Machine Engineering´s core
areas of expertise. The company is highly successful internationally, not only
as a machine and plant engineer, but also as a systems integrator.
Boom
in the aerospace industry
In
it´s annual "Current Market Outlook" (CMO), aircraft manufacturer Boeing
foresees a demand of around 35,000 new aircraft in the next 20 years. More than
a third of these in the Asia-Pacific region. Fill has now also achieved initial
success in this important industrial sector with an NDT ultrasound inspection
system for testing carbon structures for a factory in Nanjing. There is a great
deal of interest in further Fill machines and systems.
Corporate
data
Fill
is a leading international machine and plant manufacturing company for diverse
branches of industry. The family-owned business excels in the use of the latest
technologies in management, communication, and production. Business operations
encompass the fields of metal, plastics and wood for the automotive, aircraft,
wind energy, sport and building industries. The company is the global market
leader in ski and snowboard production machines and aluminum core removal
technology. Andreas Fill and Wolfgang Rathner are joint CEOs of the company
founded in 1966 that is still completely family-owned. The company became a
public limited company (GmbH) in 1987, was certified in accordance with ISO 9001
in 1997, and now has more than 590 employees. In 2013, the company recorded
sales of just under 115 million euros.
Further
information can be found at: www.fill.co.at
If you have any questions, please contact:
Kommhaus
Altausseer Strasse 220
8990 Bad Aussee / Austria
Tel.: +43 3622 55344-0
Fax: +43 3622 55344-17
E-mail: presse@kommhaus.com
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