The Swiss firm plans to establish an extrusion centre in Germany

The Swiss firm plans to establish an extrusion centre in Germany

Swiss machinery firm Buhler has expanded its plastics and rubber extrusion range with the acquisition of TSK. Buhler announced today it had bought parts of Germany’s Theysohn-Machinenbau from the insolvency assets of parent company VGT-Gruppe.

Buhler said it would integrate TSK’s range of co-rotating, intermeshing twin-screw extruders into its Extrusion Systems business. As part of the deal, Buhler has acquired the complete TSK team and an application engineering laboratory. The acquisition is the latest step in the growth of the company’s extrusion activities. The company bought the single-screw operations of New Zealand firm MillbankExtrusion in January 2003, to serve the Asian and Latin American markets.

Buhler also has plans to establish an extrusion centre for synthetic raw materials, including plastics and rubber, in Braunschweig, Germany. The company said this would include a process engineering laboratory and would be headed by Theysohn-Machinenbau general manager Andreas Holt.