Engel Group subsidiary TMA Automation Sp. z o.o. has begun constructing of a model new office and manufacturing setting up near the Gdansk Airport in Poland. Engel acquired a majority stake in TMA Automation in 2022. In a launch, the company says the model new setting up in Gdansk will “intensify the collaboration” between the two entities. TMA Automation stays energetic obtainable available in the market as an unbiased mannequin, and whereas its founders Marek Łangowski and Piotr Orlikowski will proceed to deal with the enterprise, Walter Aumayr was named VP for postmerger integration of the Engel Group and managing director at TMA Automation. On this place, Engel says Aumayr will “complement the native administration crew and strengthen the connection to the Engel Group.”
A digital rendering of TMA Automation’s new facility to open in Gdansk, Poland. Provide: Engel
The model new setting up is part of an enlargement approach for TMA Automation, which contains a doubling of the company’s workforce. TMA manufactures custom-made automation methods for Jap Europe, specializing in rising and placing in custom-made methods concentrating on in-mold labeling (IML), side-entry robots, palletizing and stand-alone assembly.
An Engel spokesperson declined to share the scale of the model new facility or its have an effect on on functionality in Poland nonetheless did say that, counting on the course of enterprise, Engel will steadily enhance the number of staff (which is at current at 40), along with the potential, with the assumption that this enlargement will make it attainable to in the end double the number of staff and turnover.
Engel notes that its collaboration with TMA inside the space began prolonged sooner than the Austrian agency acquired a majority stake in 2022. The model new setting up is anticipated to be achieved by autumn 2025. TMA was primarily based in 2010 in Gdynia, Poland, roughly 15 miles from the Gdansk Airport.