Engel opens expanded Indian sales and tech center

Engel has opened a sales and technical center in Mumbai, India, offering the burgeoning local injection molding and automation market machine demonstrations, customer trials, pre-production, and mold trials. The business, Engel Machinery India Pvt. Ltd. will be headed by Jitendra Devlia  and be located in a new and significantly larger space that's close to Mumbai International Airport in the Andheri East district of the city.

The center, which will also have space for training and technical seminars, will have tie-bar-less Engel victory machines with energy-saving servohydraulic Engel ecodrives installed, as well as fully electric machines from the Engel e-motion range and Engel viper robots from the company's latest generation of linear automation. The Engel spare parts warehouse is also expanding in the course of the relocation to new premises.

Engel has been active in India for 13 years, and the company expects growth to remain high in the country, which it describes as the second most important Asian market for European manufacturers of plastics processing machines after China. Expansion is being driven by strong domestic demand in the automotive, packaging, white goods, agricultural, and construction sectors.