Plastic: The Gold of Kremstal

The family Greiner, Kremsmünster has already been dipped in the 1950s
into the world of plastics, because it wanted to replace its lack of
raw material Korkstoppeln through plastic.

The material from petroleum derivatives in Upper Austria owes its
triumph but the brothers Anton and William Anger. You are in Traun
Carrera Optyl Although the glasses Kaiser, but give with modern
plastic technology for many other applications a boost.

"At the trade fair in Dusseldorf 1959, we have received so many orders
for the construction of plastic machinery, that we had no place in
Traun, nor the staff for it," recalls former personnel chief Johann
Stockmayer. The expansion should continue in the district of the
village church, because that is agricultural land with a large labor
pool. 50 years ago, the workshop Bauhofer rented in the village church
and started the machine. 1962 is on sale at the drawing mountain road
a lot and built a factory which is based 1963rd

A technological revolution, developed by Anton Anger "conical
twin-screw," with the endless plastic can be extruded profiles ensures
business success. On the search for new gold will soon make more
plants, mostly founded by ex-Anger resourceful staff. "Anger has
always had an excellent apprentice training," says Friedrich Kastner,
head of IFW Otte and spokesman for the plastics cluster, an industry
platform.

Eumig - the national tragedy

Today's Anger at the former site of the company street Ziehberg Mould
& Matic, a partnership of Greiner and the toolmaker Joseph Haidlmair.
"The fact that the companies work together, which draws the plastics
industry from the Krems Valley," says Kastner.

This recovery is for the Kremstal very important because it has lost
its pearl. The sinking of Eumig (electricity and metal products
industry company), producer of movie equipment and projectors, is
perceived as a national tragedy. 1975 is Eumig world number one for
movie projectors, and has 5000 employees (750 in the work of Michel
village, the majority at its headquarters in Vienna). 1981, the
countries of the bank financing, because Eumig against the
multinational corporations can no longer claim. On location in
Micheldorf emerges as a consequence - of course, a plastic operation,
TCG Unitech. He subsequently experienced much turbulence, such as
F2-surfboards. Unitech today is to die-cast aluminum and plastic parts
for the auto industry specialist.

One in seven works in plastics company

In District Kirchdorf today are 14 percent of workers in plastics
companies, including nearly every seventh. In Upper Austria there are
five, only 1.7 percent in Austria. The recent crisis has also caught
the Plastic Valley, and caused staff cuts, but most companies have
specialized. "Everyone is looking for a niche in the global
competition," says Kastner.

Wide is established by the Greiner Group, the company has taken some
follow-up of the Anger-era and today, from the production line of
tools (corporate division Tooltec) to the finished product (yogurt
containers, laboratory equipment ...) everything in the program. For
cluster-manager Werner Pamminger story is the Plastic Valley "written
not long since ended. The innovation is enormous, "An example:.
Politsch pioneer Siegfried has just brought plastic machines on the
market that reduce energy consumption by 90 per cent of England and
dazzlingly sell to Russia.

A new growth area is plastic recycling. Here, other regions are
specialized, such as the company Erema Ansfelden. Its founder: Georg
Wendelin. He started - of course - with Anger.

William Anger Interview

William Anger (born in 1926, picture) was the sale and brother Anton
(1928), the technical genius of the displaced family from the
Sudetenland. They built on the glasses Optyl company, which had 1978
3000 employees, including 2000 in Traun. When the banks became
nervous, had to sell the Angers of the German Bauer Verlag. Optyl 2004
by the Italian group Safilo liquidated.

OÖN: Why have you started 50 years ago next to the glasses with the
construction of manufacturing plastic machinery?
Anger: My brother Anthony and I have indeed been created by our
company from 1954 Poloplast plastic pipes. My brother has built the
machine, I had the formula for the commodity. We have sold Poloplast
1956 at Eternit Hatschek, who were threatened by their plastic cement
pipes. We then built in arch in Bavaria continues machines. The
plastic art was for us a second income in addition to the glasses.
OÖN: You have founded so many companies. Are you rich?
Anger: No, but I've had a wonderful life. What I deserve, I've always
plugged into the next project and then again in the next.
OÖN: Do you have ideas for new products still in stock?
Anger: I'm working around so long as it goes, because that is my existence.

The Pioneers: Siegfried Politsch & Co

• Siegfried Politsch was with Anger in Micheldorf, founded in 1980,
the Aluplast Wartberg, 1984 in Uniplast Nußbach and sold both to
Greiner. He founded in Micheldorf Technoplast (now HTI) and 2009
Politsch Kunststofftechnik Ried / Tr.
• Manfred Otte was Kalkulant in Anger, started in 1969 with IFW Otte
Michel village, now the world leader with fittings.
• Siegfried pot, Anger's apprentice, started in 1986 Tooling pot (now at HTI).
• Siegfried Gruber, pot-apprentice, founded extrusion Pettenbach (now Greiner).
• Other Angerianer: Walter Ganz Berger (Actual-Window) and Georg
Wendelin / Helmut Bacher (Erema) Ansfelden; Volker Neumeyer's
Inter-Standard Board.

Quotations

"We were the first in 1983, sold the complete plastic window factories
to China. As the whole industry has looked admiringly at us."
Siegfried Politsch to its vertical take-off with Uniplast

"The companies are working together. The highlights of the plastics
industry from the Krems valley." Friedrich Kastner, chief executive of
the flagship operation IFW Otte and spokesman of the plastic cluster