Rampf Expanding

Rampf to set up facility for polyurethane and epoxy products in Germany

The company will invest Euro 11 million in the Grafenberg facility, which will produce polyurethane and epoxy boards for the automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, and wind energy industries

Rampf Tooling Solutions, the Germany-based developer and manufacturer of board and liquid materials for modelling and mould engineering, will set up a new facility at the Grafenberg (Germany) site for producing styling, modelling, and working boards made from polyurethane and epoxy.

“With both Rampf Tooling Solutions and Rampf Polymer Solutions showing excellent growth, we have decided to launch an additional production facility at our Grafenberg site. The new building will give both companies the physical capacity for further growth and also create new jobs,” explained Matthias Rampf, CEO, Rampf Holding.

The company will invest around Euro 11 million is the two-story production facility that will provide an additional 4,000 square meters of space. The facility will be built on land adjacent to the Rampf Innovation Center.

Rampf Tooling Solutions will use the new facility to produce styling, modelling, and working boards made from polyurethane and epoxy. These are used in original, cubing, and presentation models, as well as in design and form studies across industries including the automotive, motorsports, aerospace, shipbuilding, and wind energy sectors.

The new production facility is set to be ready for use in mid-2017. It is already the third building which Rampf has constructed together with the building company Goldbeck Sud GmbH, Stuttgart.

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