Plastics processor Ensinger GmbH, Nufringen, has sold its Tecarim business. Ortwin Knaipp, together with a business partner, has acquired the machinery and equipment along with the technological know-how. Mr Knaipp has been the Managing Director in charge of Ensinger Tecarim GmbH for four years. The management buyout means that they acquire all of the company shares and the technology but also the workforce at the company site in Wels (Austria).
The transfer of business took place at the end of May, with retroactive effect from 1 April. As part of the repositioning, Ensinger Tecarim GmbH has changed its name to “alpharim polymers GmbH”. The brand name, under which products made from material Nyrim are sold on the market at the same high level of quality, has also changed from Tecarim to alpharim.
Tecarim became part of the Ensinger Group in 1996. The focus of its operations is the development, production and sale of stock shapes, composites and moulded articles made from the polymer Nyrim. The extremely robust and abrasion resistant products are suitable for heavy-duty applications.
The reasons for selling the business are explained by Ralph Pernizsak, Managing Director at Ensinger: “The portfolio of our Shapes division has changed over the years. Nowadays, the Tecarim product group has less common ground with the market segments of Ensinger’s other business units. We decided to sell the Tecarim business because hardly any synergies existed from joint distribution.”
The new Managing Directors are working on a sustainable, strategic realignment of the experienced polymer specialist and can rely on its established core workforce for this. Ortwin Knaipp explains: “We see further potential for development in the target markets and will continue to strive for a close relationship with the customer so we can solve individual technical challenges together. We are also looking forward to continuing our successful partnership with the Ensinger Group, especially since several years of working together have generated many personal contacts between the sites.”
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