TECHNOPLAST GROUP Kft.

The predecessor of the TECHNOPLAST Group was established in 1980 under the name GAM GM, a company constituted under civil law; this was among the first private industrial enterprises in Hungary. Later on, when the opportunity presented itself the company was transferred to a GMK (special form of partnership in the late 80’s in Hungary). In the beginning the company operated as an engineering office; designing machinery, preparing manufacturing technologies and providing other engineering services. Within a year counted from foundation tool production was added to our activities: we primarily specialized in the manufacturing of plastic injection moulding tools for the household, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Our company started to manufacture injection moulding tools suitable to produce engineering plastics principally for the automotive industry; this was the time when we changed the name and legal form of our company to TECHNOPLAST Bt. (unlimited partnership) that represented our activities better. From 1993 we were first level suppliers of one of the biggest automotive firms in Hungary, RÁBA Rt, for more than fifteen years. We mainly supplied forging tool sets and different appliances. We transformed our company to TECHNOPLAST McD Kft. (limited liability company) in 1995 and the main activities became tool and component manufacturing. In 2000 we established a joint venture with the British centre of the Japanese ARRK for the manufacturing of prototype plastic injection moulding tools under the name ARRK-TECH Kft, which operated successfully for four years. We started to produce rapid prototyping parts and became involved in 3D SLA printing, vacuum and RIM casting in 2000. The equipment and process knowledge was provided by the German ALPHAFORM AG. Initially this activity operated as one of the workshops of the enterprise but the increase of the number of employees and the revenues as a result of the increased demands justified that the activity was organized into an independent venture. This happened in 2005 under the name of TECHNOPLAST PROTOTYPING Kft. We organized our ventures with different types of activities into one company that operates in its present form close to the city of Miskolc, in the Felsőzsolca Industrial Park since 2011, under the name TECHNOPLAST GROUP Kft.