300th Allrounder delivered to Hongfa

• Official handover: Milestone machine for the world’s largest relay manufacturer from China
• High-ranking delegation: Group Chairman and President Manjin Guo and Europe CEO Jiaqiang Chen in Lossburg
• Close partnership: Hongfa has relied on technology and expertise from Arburg for over 20 years

Arburg welcomed a high-ranking delegation from Xiamen Hongfa Electroacoustic Co. Ltd., China’s largest and leading global manufacturer of relays, semiconductors, low-voltage units and contact connectors and a world leader in its field. Hongfa Group Chairman and President Manjin Guo and Hongfa Europe CEO Jiaqiang Chen and four other company representatives had specially travelled to Lossburg to take personal delivery of the company’s 300th Allrounder, a hybrid Allrounder 470 H, and to discuss new projects.

The guests from China were welcomed by Managing Partner Renate Keinath: “It is a great honour for us that you have undertaken the long journey to celebrate the handover of your 300th Allrounder here in Lossburg.”

Managing Director Sales Gerhard Böhm gave a review on the successful development of cooperation: “Since the purchase of the first Allrounder, Hongfa has expanded its machine fleet continuously and with increasing speed. The 100th machine was purchased in 2011; at the beginning of 2016, it were already 200 Allrounders and today – barely one and a half years later – we celebrate the handover of the 300th machine. This development is truly impressive!” The Hongfa delegation was accompanied on their trip by Zhao Tong, Managing Director of the Arburg organisations in China.

Arburg quality as a recipe for success
In his address, Hongfa Group Chairman and President Manjin Guo focused on the excellent, long-standing cooperation between the two companies: “Arburg’s extensive support has played an important role in the development of Hongfa as the world’s largest relay manufacturer. From products to service, everything has always been of perfect quality.” He went on to express his gratitude for the extensive technical expertise that Arburg offers Hongfa the areas of mould and injection moulding technology, for example, which has significantly increased production output. Manjin Guo identified his company’s continuous investment in state-of-the-art production facilities as the key to its success: “Good products must be made from good components, which in turn require good moulds and good machines. That’s why we only buy the best quality – in other words, Arburg machines. This is a principle that we have followed for years.”

Wide range of products and machines
Founded in 1984, Hongfa has a total of 16 production facilities in China. The product range comprises 160 relay series with some 40,000 standard specifications, which are used in the automotive, telecommunication, safety and control technology, household appliances and aerospace industries. Hongfa uses close to the entire Arburg machine portfolio in its production: the hydraulic, hybrid and electric Allrounders are mainly used for thermoplastics, but also for thermosets.

About Arburg
A German family-owned company, Arburg is one of the leading global manufacturers of plastic processing machines. The product portfolio encompasses Allrounder injection moulding machines with clamping forces of between 125 and 6,500 kN, the Freeformer for industrial additive manufacturing and robotic systems, customer and industry-specific turnkey solutions and further peripheral equipment.

The company places the topic of production efficiency at the centre of all its activities, taking into account the entire value-added chain. The objective is to enable the Arburg customers to manufacture their plastic products, whether one-off parts or high-volume batches, in optimal quality and at minimum unit costs – e.g. for the automotive and packaging industries, communication and entertainment electronics, medical technology or the white goods sector.
An international sales and service network guarantees first-class, local customer support. Arburg is represented by its own organisations at 33 locations in 25 countries and by trading partners in more than 50 countries. The machines are produced exclusively at the parent company in Lossburg, Germany. Of a total of around 2,700 employees, about 2,200 work in Germany. About 500 further employees work in Arburg’s organisations around the world. In 2012, Arburg became one of the first companies to gain triple certification: to ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environment) and ISO 50001 (Energy).