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Hybrid materials for surgical instruments in EnsingerERT

Ensinger has acquired medical technology specialist Moll Engineering, a manufacturer of products from carbon fibre-reinforced high-performance plastics, stainless steel and titanium.

Moll’s core competence lies in target devices for orthopaedics and trauma surgery, retractors and other medical instruments, and components for automation technology and aviation round off its portfolio. The acquisition also includes the takeover of the manufacturing company Wenglon, which makes products on Moll’s behalf in Dobra, near Szczecin (Poland). Engineering and sales are based at the Lübeck site, and a total of 70 employees work for Moll and Wenglon.

Ensinger already develops plastic compounds for the medical technology sector, provides stock shapes made from carbon fibre composite and other materials, and produces a variety of machined parts, for example trial implants and sterilisable cases and trays. Besides, a subsidiary company is developing new technologies for the processing of thermoplastic fibre composites. The different process technologies open up diverse options for customers for developing and manufacturing products together with Ensinger along the value added chain.