Strong sales of its Golden Edition press and the electric Alldrive machine lifted the company in 2006, company executives announced during Arburg's Technology Days.
The Technology Days attracted nearly 3500 people from 42 countries to tour the highly automated plant at Arburg’s Lossburg headquarters in the Black Forest Region.

The efficiency of the factory enables Arburg to compete globally, even though Germany is a comparatively high-labour-cost environment. With investment of around $20 million a year in operations, Lossburg employs more than 1600 people.
"Despite Arburg's international orientation, we are still clearly committed to our sole production site at Lossburg,'' said management partner Michael Hehl.

The company is building a 10 000 square metre customer and reception centre on the site. Construction is due to be completed towards the end of next year. But that’s not the only expansion the company is undertaking. In the United States, Arburg is building a 600 square metre technology centre in Irvine, California and has also purchased a similar-sized building for its technical centre in Elgin, Illinois.

About 25 per cent of its 2006 press sales, measured by units, came from its Golden Edition - a hydraulic machine that the company said boasts many standard features at a lower price and with quick delivery. The Alldrive electric presses accounted for 10 per cent of total units, up from 8 per cent in 2005.

Mr Hehl said the company has a 54 per cent market share in Germany in smaller presses with clamping forces of 400 metric tons and lower. The company has a 37 per cent European market share in that segment.

Herbert Kraibühler, managing director of technology and engineering, said Arburg wants to be a complete supplier that can integrate upstream and downstream equipment.