Milestones of ENGEL's success story

 

1945 Formation of the company by Ludwig Engel
1948 First plastic press
1952 First injection molding machine
1959 First complete machine line

 

1965 Irene and Georg Schwarz take over ENGEL's management
1968 Electronic machine control becomes standard
1972 First subsidiary abroad in Denmark
1977-1979 ENGEL Canada Inc. is established as first production facility abroad 

 

1980 The development and production of linear robots starts
1986 Hongkong becomes first ENGEL subsidiary in Asia
1988 Opening of the large capacity machine plant in St. Valentin, Austria
1989 Opening of the large capacity machine plant in York, USA

 

1990 Introduction of the tie-bar-less machine line
1995 Introduction of the ENGEL duo machine line
1998 Presentation of the first all electric tie-bar-less machine
2001 Opening of the production plant in Pyungtaek-City, Korea

 

2002 Flood catastrophe in Schwertberg
2004 Introduction of the ENGEL speed machine line
2007 Opening of the large capacity machine plant in Shanghai, China
2008 Introduction of the ENGEL e-max machine line

 

2009 Opening of the production plant in Kaplice, Czechia
2009 Enlargement of production plant in St. Valentin
2009 50.000 sold ENGEL-victory-machines - Introduction of ENGEL victory spex
2009 Opening new Technology Center in Schwertberg