ENGEL Success Story

The spirit of innovation, built on decades of experience: ENGEL is always in flux and relies on creating the latest technologies and ensuring sustainable global growth. The ENGEL company history is a success story that we keep on writing everyday together with our employees.

1945 Company founded by Ludwig Engel

1948 The first ENGEL plastics press is patented

1951 The first ENGEL injection moulding machine is launched

1959 Complete ENGEL injection moulding machine program is on the market

1965 Ludwig Engel's daughter Irene and her husband Georg Schwarz take over management

1968 ENGEL introduces the electronic control unit as standard equipment

1972 Founding of the first ENGEL subsidiary abroad

1977 ENGEL builds its first production plant outside Austria

1980 Start of the development & production of ENGEL linear robots in Dietach

1988 Inauguration of the ENGEL large-scale machine plant in St. Valentin

2000 Inauguration of the ENGEL plant in Kaplice, Czech Republic

2001 Inauguration of the ENGEL production plant in Pyungtaek-City, Korea

2003 Peter Neumann becomes President and CEO ENGEL HOLDING

2007 Inauguration of the ENGEL large-scale machine plant in Shanghai, China

2013 ENGEL is the world market leader, with production locations in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, China and Korea, as well as 29 subsidiaries worldwide

2016 Stefan Engleder becomes Chairman of the Management Board