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Powerful, innovative injection moulding solutions

Expertise & advancement as standard In automotive engineering, plastics are increasingly becoming the dominant material – ENGEL supplies complete solutions for injection moulding production from a single source. As a longstanding technology partner to the automotive industry and its suppliers, we know what is important: we offer long-standing expertise, comprehensive development competence and reliable machine technology. Produce in the fast lane – and set new standards in terms of safety, functionality and design

Customised solutions For all areas of the automotive industry Innovative injection moulding technologies For diverse applications We offer you unsurpassed comfort and safety. Many parts of a passenger car’s or commercial vehicle’s exterior, interior, safety and control technology or drive train can only be manufactured using injection moulding. ENGEL enables components of the highest quality: with our manufacturing solutions, we support you in making passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles even more comfortable, safer, more cost-effective, more intelligent and more environmentally...

ENGEL offers a complete range of vertical and horizontal injection moulding machines for processing elastomers. Plasticising units for processing strip rubber compounds based on the first-in first-out principle are available from ENGEL. ENGEL LIM stands for screw or piston plasticising units, as well as plasticising and conveying technologies for liquid silicone rubber. Thermosets are used wherever parts are exposed to the highest mechanical stresses. ENGEL’s Duroplast BMC technology supplies high wear-resistant systems to efficiently produce these demanding materials. ENGEL foammelt...

Structural and exterior parts Attractive, protective First impressions are critical – this is particularly true for automobiles. The design freedom of plastic is used more and more to individually design the outer surface of vehicles. Injectionmoulded exterior parts are very demanding in terms of surface and dimensional stability. ENGEL injection moulding machines and technologies ensure the best surface quality and finest cost effectiveness, even for large moulded parts and long flow paths. Strong in light-weight construction As an alternative to metal structures, light-weight elements...

Wheelhousing liners Brake pedals Wheelhousing liners and cover strips in the engine compartment need noise-reducing properties. These are achieved by injection moulding specifically modified polymers or by overmoulding textile materials. By combining the ENGEL combimelt multi-component technology and the ENGEL tecomelt back injection technology in a single injection moulding machine, noise-optimised products are created in one operation which can be fully adapted to customer requirements in terms of geometry, fasteners and acoustic properties. ENGEL organomelt replaces steel and aluminium...

Glazing and light engineering Transparent, coloured or luminous Windows, covers and lenses made of transparent plastics (PMMA, LSR, polycarbonate) are lightweight and offer designers a great deal of freedom. Today, complete glazing systems of plastic combine numerous features with lower system costs. The right technologies Plastic has special potential in lighting technology: the classic multicolour technique is enhanced using state-of-the-art LED technology and integrated sealing functions. More and more, optical and glazed parts in automobiles are being made of transparent plastics...

Overmoulding windows Fibre optics and LEDs Overmoulding with thermoplastics or elastomers allows to add a sealing and mounting function to glass panes. The single-step process in injection moulding machines with a horizontal or vertical clamping unit reduces the mounting overhead and avoids costs. ENGEL’s complete line of machines offers a customised and yet compact production solution for any size of window glass, any overmoulding material and any process technology requirement. As ENGEL machines can be equipped with plasticising units for both elastomers and thermoplastics, the injection...

Panels and interior parts Premium appeal and functionality A large variety of plastic components is found in the vehicle interior. Dashboards and consoles hold countless functional elements and have an attractive pleasant look and feel. This also applies to door and pillar trim panels that hold airbag systems for protection against head-on or side impact, and therefore require precisely defined characteristics. Visual appeal meets tactile experience Door trim panels cover mechanical window movement systems, seals, loudspeakers and cables; they are designed to have surfaces that offer a...

Dashboard supports Decorative parts Using an LGF plasticising unit to produce dashboard supports ensures that all requirements in terms of strength, rigidity, and impact resistance are met. A combination of ENGEL foammelt structural foam moulding and the ENGEL coinmelt injection-compression technology allows to optimise the part weight. In addition, we offer automation solutions for inserting airbag nets. The ENGEL clearmelt technology achieves visually impressive effects on decorative parts with back-injected foil carriers, such as trim panels in vehicle interiors. Using multi-component...

Door trim panels The ENGEL duo series is used for large door trim panels. The importance of injection-compression technology is increasing as moulded part surfaces become larger and flow paths longer. The ENGEL injection compression programme protects the material during injection, allowing for very low clamping forces. Platen parallelism control ensures uniform distribution of the wall thickness over the entire surface of the moulded part, as well as minimal mould wear. Small batch sizes of very large parts with textile decoration can be produced on injection moulding machines with a...

Safety, locking and control technology, sensors & connectors Reliability for many miles Today, it is not only active and passive safety equipment, such as ABS, ESP, seat belts, head restraints, seat belt tensioners and airbags, that mainly consists of injection moulded components. Driver assistance systems, steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire systems also require plastics. Especially for these safety-relevant parts with their sensors, switches and connectors, it is equally important to achieve repeatable product quality as it is to document the production data for the automobile manufacturer....