"I'm delighted that our technology of the day still works and is in reliable operation today," said Partner Eugen Hehl in handing over the anniversary machine to Dr. Andreas Lederer, Managing Director of Wilh. Wissner, which specialises in components for lingerie and orthopaedic products. The high-quality EDRVE machine fits perfectly into our plans," said Dr. Andreas Lederer, winner of the anniversary competion, delighted with the valuable gift. With the new ALLROUNDER 370 E, the company wants to develop new orthopaedic and medical technology products. The machine nominated for the competition, an ALLROUNDER 150, has produced suspender clips since 1966. Even 45 years ago, a solution had been devised for feeding the fabric strip onto which a plastic component was injection moulded.

The high performance and durability of the first ALLROUNDERs is also evidenced by the fact that 160 companies – from Germany, Europe, the US and even South Africa – participated in the anniversary competition. All of these continue to use their ALLROUNDERs in injection moulding production to this day. The success story of the ALLROUNDER injection moulding machines covering five decades is a veritable economic miracle – for our customers, for the sector and, of course, for ARBURG. In 1961, the invention of the ALLROUNDER principle revolutionised conventional ideas regarding injection moulding. Over the years, the unique modularity of the ALLROUNDER injection moulding machines has developed from the ALLROUNDER principle of a swivelling clamping unit and an interchangeable injection unit. Today therefore, the ALLROUNDERs precisely meet all customer and application-specific requirements.