Press release

File: 0886fcaa629d4732c80f6f6a ARBURG Ltda. Brazil receives PPR 4ea7b219.doc Date: 24.02.2014 award Characters: 2,377 Words: 373

 Trade journal „ Plásticos em Revista“ bestows ARBURG GmbH + Co KG Press office Susanne Palm award to Arburg Ltda. for first time Dr. Bettina Keck Postfach 1109  Company receives Prêmio Plásticos em Revista 72286 Lossburg, Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 7446 33-3463 Award PPR in the “Imported Machines” category Tel.: +49 (0) 7446 33-3259 Fax: +49 (0) 7446 33-3413  Award based exclusively on customer surveys [email protected]

This and other press releases are available for download from Lossburg. There was a great deal of delight when our website at http://www.arburg.com/ press subsidiary manager Kai Wender accepted the award during a reception held in São Paulo, Brazil in November 2013. This is because the Prêmio Plásticos em Revista Award PPR is one of the most prestigious prizes for plastics processing companies in the country. Arburg Ltda. received the award in the category “Best Manufacturer of Imported Injection Moulding Machines in Brazil”.

The award winners come from the areas of plastics processing, materials trade, machine construction and plastics recycling. The most eminent players in the petrochemical industry were also honoured. The award winners are determined each year by an independent market research institute and exclusively through customer surveys. The trade journal “Plásticos em Revista”, one of the threeplastics journals in Brazil, bestows the awards.

One of the best known trade prizes in Brazil The award itself has been presented since 2003 and has advanced to become one of the best known trade prizes in the Brazilian plastics sector in recent years. The high level of customer satisfaction with Arburg evidently has several reasons. In subsidiary manager Kai Wender’s opinion, one of these reasons is the quality and technology of the Allrounder injection moulding machines and Multilift robotic systems, another, importantly, is also the technical support and consulting which the Brazilian subsidiary provides to all of its customers. An important factor he states here is, for example, the spare parts store of the local Arburg subsidiary, which ensures fast and comprehensive delivery to all the Brazilian customers.

Important regional success Kai Wender believes that the award, which Arburg received for the first time in 2013, is attributable to the systematic market activities of the Brazilian subsidiary: “With this award, our customers are honouring our twelve years of development efforts, in which the achievement of optimal customer acceptance and excellent pre- and after- sales support have been the main focus. I would like to thank the entire subsidiary team for this. After all, it is their great individual achievements that have resulted in the award. For us, it is also a further incentive to resolutely pursue the path we have embarked upon and to

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Kai Wender, Managing Director Arburg Ltda., Brazil, among the “Plásticos em Revista” PPR award winners. Foto: Plásticos em Revista

About Arburg Arburg, a German machine construction company, is one of the leading global manufacturers of injection moulding machines for plastics processing with clamping forces between 125 kN and 5,000 kN. Robotic systems, customer- and sector-specific turnkey solutions and further peripherals round off our product range. In keeping with its motto “Arburg for efficient injection moulding”, the company places the overarching 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 products in optimal quality 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 32 locations in 24 countries and by trading partners in more than 50 countries. The machines are produced exclusively at the parent factory in Lossburg, Germany. From a total of

Page 3 of 4 around 2,300 employees, around 1,900 work in Germany. About 400 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). Further information about Arburg can be found at www.arburg.com.

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