Engel & Cannon Partnership: Innovating PUR Coating Tech

PUR system for clearmelt Advancement of PUR flooding: Engel and Cannon sign strategic partnership

2025-02-25 Source: Engel 2 min Reading Time

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Engel and Cannon have entered a strategic partnership. The aim of this cooperation between two partners is to further develop innovative technologies for PUR flooding and enable industrial applications with even higher quality and efficiency.

Marco Volpato (left), President & Chairman of The Cannon Group and Stefan Engleder (right), CEO of the Engel Group, in front of the world's largest injection moulding cell with a PUR system in a technical centre.(Source: Engel) — Marco Volpato (left), President & Chairman of The Cannon Group and Stefan Engleder (right), CEO of the Engel Group, in front of the world's largest injection moulding cell with a PUR system in a technical centre.
(Source: Engel)

The demand for high-quality PUR-coated components is steadily increasing. Engel refers to this technology as clearmelt and has decades of experience with it, as well as a multitude of customers and references. With the clearmelt process, components are coated with PUR directly in the machine after the injection moulding process. Now, Engel is strengthening its position through the partnership with Cannon. This cooperation combines long-standing expertise and is intended to leverage synergies to continue offering customers forward-looking solutions. Engel contributes its expertise in injection moulding technology, while Cannon, with its expertise in PUR processing, optimises process reliability and efficiency. The clearmelt technology, which coats thermoplastic components with a durable PUR surface, is to be further developed and optimised through Cannon’s know-how, built over two decades in this field.

A prime example of this collaboration is the world's largest injection moulding cell with a PUR system for clearmelt, which has been commissioned at the Engel technical centre in Sankt Valentin. There, customers can conduct practical tests with various PUR colour variants. The combination of the world's largest injection moulding machine in a technical centre, the Engel duo 5500 combi M, and the precise metering and mixing technology from Cannon ensures maximum process stability and flexibility. The PUR system from Cannon, which provides precise and efficient material supply, is seamlessly integrated into the CC300 machine control system from Engel to ensure ease of use and maximum automation of the process. This not only speeds up the production chain but also improves the overall quality of the final products.

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Engel and Cannon offer production cells for combining injection moulding and polyurethane processing.(Source: Engel)

In addition to technological capability, the collaboration places particular emphasis on customer service. The global presence of Engel and Cannon ensures comprehensive support in all key markets, globally. Customers benefit from strong after-sales and application support, which, with extensive know-how, also assists in integrating this technology into existing production processes.

With this partnership, Engel and Cannon want to offer optimal production cells for combining injection moulding and polyurethane processing from innovative and family-owned market leaders. “This provides customers with the opportunity to respond to the increasing demands of the industry and achieve sustainable competitive advantages”, Engel announced.

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