The broad product spectrum, extreme user friendliness and a well-equipped customer service. These are just some of the reasons why the St Petersburg State Institute of Technology has once again decided in favour of a hydraulic injection moulding machine from Sumitomo (SHI) Demag this year.
Since it was founded in 1828 the St Petersburg State Institute for Technology has been one of Russia's most prestigious universities. The catalogue of the Institute's six-storey library contains more than one million titles and its long line of celebrated alumni include many outstanding scientists, above all the "inventor" of the periodic system of chemical elements to which he gave his name, Dmitri Mendelejew.
Today a Systec 50 machine for the processing of plastics is installed at the Department of Machinery and Robotics. Around forty students at the department of Professor Vladislav P. Britovare educated here, learning how to use the control unit, to insert the various moulds and to expand their knowledge through a number of practical material tests and mould trials.
Until the end of last year there an Ergotech 100/420-430 Concept was installed at the institute. According to Professor Britov, there is more than one good reason why the department has once again decided in favour of an injection moulding machine from Sumitomo (SHI) Demag. For him these include the high standard of the technical quality and the precisely attuned modularity of the range of options, which can also be rapidly customised. What is equally important for Britov is this German machine's extreme user friendliness.
"The Systec has a control interface that really can be operated without any problems. It's easy to learn to use the control unit because our students can observe and understand the injection moulding processes in their entirety. We can then use the time saved for practical work with the Systec." According to Professor Britov, this is accompanied by "some really practical advantages of the Demag machines that have convinced us over the course of recent years". "The Ergotech already had very low wear and tear of the mould parts. And if they did have to be exchanged now and then, we could always rely on the customer service. Here in St. Petersburg that's certainly not something you can take for granted."
Alexander Votinov, Managing Director of CJSC Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery, is naturally pleased about this assessment. "Cooperation with such a prestigious university as the St Petersburg State Institute for Technology is a sheer pleasure as far as we are concerned, but in terms of our marketing strategy we also see it as an important building block in an important market. After all, it allows us to ensure that young scientists in Russia get to know our products at an early stage. We're certain to benefit once this high-potential talent is taking the decisions."
CJSC Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery has been represented in the Russian market for injection moulding machines for many years through its subsidiary, CJSC Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery. CJSC Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery is not only represented through its head office in Moscow, but also through sales offices and service branches in all regions of economic importance such as St Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Ufa in Russia and in Minsk in Belarus. The company's activities in Kiev, Ukraine, are also steered from Moscow.
Due to the early market entry, its long tradition in Russia and consistent further development in the fields of technology and service, CJSC Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery has been one of the market's leading producers for many years. In September 2010 the subsidiary celebrated its 20th anniversary in Moscow. Since 1990 more than 3,000 Demag machines have been supplied to Russia and the CIS countries.
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