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8 MPR September/October 2014

Kyocera Unimerco opens new branch in Istanbul

Arburg extends facility of its Czech subsidiary

Hydro takes control of aluminium smelter plant

ARC Group appoints former Indo-MIM CEOARC Group Worldwide Inc has appointed Ali Fadel as its vice president of inter-national sales and business development, a newly cre-ated role at ARC.

Fadel is a metal injection moulding industry veteran, having formerly held the posi-tion of CEO at Indo-MIM. He has also held leadership posi-tions at General Dynamics, Barnes Group, Herman Miller, Chrysler, and Textron.

“We are honoured to have Mr Fadel join our team,” said Jason Young, chairman and CEO of ARC. “[He] has an exceptional background in advanced manufacturing and metal injection mould-

ing, combined with an inter-national sales background. While ARC has meaningful penetration in the US and European markets, we believe there are growth opportunities outside of those markets, particularly in regions such as Asia.

“With the addition of Mr Fadel, we should be able to further cement our leading position in MIM and gain addi-tional market share. His back-ground is also quite strategic to our overall business model, which should add to our abil-ity to cross sell ARC products and bring our advanced manu-facturing and 3D printing solu-tions to new markets.”

Kyocera Unimerco Group has opened a new office in Istanbul, Turkey.

Cutting tools specialist Kyocera Unimerco has opened a new office in Istanbul, Turkey.

The company says that this shows its increased commitment to the emerging economic region. Kyocera will support the new office

in supplying the Turkish market with cutting tools, in particular for the automotive and industrial engineering segment.

The market potential for cutting tools in Turkey is esti-mated at approximately €100 million annually.

Aluminium company Hydro and Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) have signed an agreement for Hydro to take over RTA’s share of the aluminium smelt-er plant Sør-Norge Aluminium AS (Søral) in Norway.Following the closing of the agreement, the plant will become Hydro’s fifth fully owned aluminium smelter in Norway.

Søral is a primary alumini-um plant situated in Husnes at the Norwegian west coast, with an annual production capacity of about 180,000 metric tons of primary alu-minium. The plant, which has been operated as a stand-alone unit is currently producing around 90,000 tons annually. Søral has 230 employees, and has prior to the agreement been owned

by Rio Tinto Alcan (50%) and Hydro (49.9%).

“We believe in the Norwegian aluminium industry,” said executive vice president and head of primary metal, Hilde Merete Aasheim. “Søral is a well invested plant, which on a comparable basis has a cost position in line with the rest of our Norwegian smelters. A change in own-ership makes it possible to contribute even stronger in strengthening operations.”

“Hydro already has a strong primary aluminium production base in Norway and we believe Søral will be a valuable contribution to our portfolio. The plant fits well into Hydro’s high premium cast house product strategy,” says Aasheim. Arburg plans to extend its facility in Brno, Czech Republic.

Arburg plans to extend its facility in Brno, Czech Republic by 565m2. The new capacity is required to meet the increasing demand for customer-specific production cells, the company said.

“For some years we have had strong demand in the areas of automation and turnkey systems with annual growth rates of between ten and 15%,” explains Jaroslav Novak, managing director of

Arburg spol sro. “We noticed these trends at a very early stage and have supplement-ed the capacities and skills of our team accordingly.

“Since 2005 we have been present in the automa-tion business in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and have implemented turnkey projects as a general contrac-tor in cooperation with local suppliers of peripheral equip-ment.”

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