ENGEL's exhibits and demonstrations will revolve around the manufacture of bottle caps, thin-walled packaging, pallets and fittings, as well as consumables for medical and laboratory use.

"ENGEL is one of the most preferred plastics processing industry partners in the Gulf States, and our system solutions are responsible for a large percentage of this success," said Andreas Leitner, Sales Director Middle East at ENGEL.

"It's only when we coordinate all the components of a production cell from the very beginning while taking individual requirements into consideration that we're able to make full use of the cell's quality and efficiency potential and create competitive advantages for our customers."

Besides injection moulding machines, ENGEL system solutions can include automation, the integration of upstream and downstream process steps, process technology, the mould, quality assurance and other peripheral components. ENGEL works with system partners to enable it to develop the optimal solution for each individual situation, and three of those partners will be joining ENGEL in Riyadh. They are mould makers Otto Hofstetter (Uznach, Switzerland) and ifw (Micheldorf, Austria), and BECK automation (Oberengstringen, Switzerland), an automation expert specialising in high-speed and IML applications. The companies will be available during the exhibition to answer specific questions and will be able to offer initial on-the-spot assessments for new project ideas. The partners possess many years of experience and have completed many projects in the Middle East together, particularly in the areas of caps and closures, thin-walled packaging, fittings and pallets.