Kiefel has expanded its material processing expertise and, as a technology partner in the plastics and packaging industries, supports customers in the development of sustainable materials and products.
Here, Kiefel focusses on Three pillars for sustainable solutionsThe company's core competences are: economical solutions based on plastic recycling, the use of bio-based and compostable plastics and the processing of cellulose materials. The Freilassing company is also cooperating with the Fraunhofer Institutes in Munich and Leipzig.
Customers are specifically supported with approaches relating to the circular economy. With the company's own „Rethinking concept“ The team discusses together how a product and the associated material can be redesigned - with regard to the Product design and functionality and the Material and its composition. It is also about how machines and tools can better support the optimised production process.
Service and digitalisation in harmony
Through the objective, Providing customers with increased regional support, global service on site has been expanded in recent years. With the expansion of the presence Service technicians close to the customer - in the same time zone, the same culture and the same language.
In order to also Times of travel restrictions to provide customers with the best possible service, thehe topic of digitalisation in the service even faster. Many offers such as remote machine acceptance by Digital remote offers are already being made possible. Further offers from the digital sector such as Data monitoring and machine maintenance are already in the test phase and will further optimise production in the future.
[infotext icon]Kiefel GmbH develops and produces machines for processing plastic films. Its customers include well-known manufacturers from the medical technology, refrigerator and packaging industries. With its own sales and service branches in the USA, France, the Netherlands, Russia, China, Brazil, Indonesia and India as well as sales partners in over 60 countries, Kiefel is represented worldwide. Kiefel includes the Dutch thermoforming mould manufacturer Kiefel Packaging B.V. and the Austrian company Kiefel Packaging GmbH, a supplier of moulds and automation solutions. Kiefel and its subsidiaries employ around 1160 people. Kiefel GmbH is a member of the Brückner Group, Siegsdorf, a family-owned medium-sized group of companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sector, with a total of over 2,600 employees at 29 locations worldwide.Source: Kiefel
