The purchasing, production and logistics activities of sister companies Battenfeld Extrusionstechnik (Bad Oeynhausen / Germany; www.bex.battenfeld.com) and Cincinnati Extrusion (Vienna / Austria; www.cet-austria.com) – both in the ownership of private equity investor Triton (Frankfurt / Germany) since 2007 – are to be merged. The most important components including extruder screws and dies will continue to be manufactured at the companies’ Vienna, Bad Oeynhausen and McPherson, Kansas / USA (American Maplan) sites, while both brand names will be maintained.

Wolfgang Studener, managing director of Battenfeld Extrusionstechnik, said that the new group sees its expertise more in process engineering than in manufacturing depth. The organisation is also to be streamlined – both companies announced in April 2008 that they would merge their assembly plants in China at one site in Europe and the US. The aim is to reduce delivery times.

As part of the reorganisation, Studener was appointed manager of the holding company for both companies from 1 September 2008. His successor as managing director at Battenfeld is Rainer Kottmeier, who will be supported from 1 November by Henning Stieglitz, recently been appointed to the company’s management. Walter Häder remains managing director of Cincinnati.