Scheugenpflug AG
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Scheugenpflug AG is one of the leading manufacturers of resin dispensing
Resin dispensing
A resin dispensing system is a technical installation to process casting resin for the purpose of filling, sealing, covering or soaking technical parts, especially in the field of electricity and electronics like transformers, LCDs and other devices of various size.Due to progressing...

 systems. In this special segment only few enterprises of super regional importance are active in the whole world.

Development

Founded in 1990 by Erich Scheugenpflug, who gained first experience in resin casting as employee of Siemens AG
Siemens AG
Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....

 in Regensburg
Regensburg
Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...

, in the course of the years the enterprise accomplished a leading role in the market for resin dispensing systems by gaining of special know how, demonstrated by numerous patents.

In the course of the years it became obvious, that manufacturing steps before and after the casting had to be integrated into the design of resin casting systems in order to optimize the whole process. This caused the addition of automation
Automation
Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...

 to the range of products.

Because the company is active not only in the highly industrialized countries of Europe and in USA, but also in emerging nations like China, India or Brazil, it was necessary to adapt the degree of automation of the delivered systems and plants to the level of wages and to the level of skills of the employees. This caused the creation of prefabricated modular compounds that can be put together quickly to form individually designed systems.

Now (2009) Scheugenpflug AG operates branches in China and in the US an has sales partners in many parts of the world. The company employs about 180 people worldwide, thereof about 140 work in Germany.

Products

Mainly Scheugenpflug AG produces piston metering devices of highest precision. A special, patented method inhibits delayed loosing of drops. This product has established the reputation of the company in the area of resin casting.

A follower plate pump
Follower plate pump
thumb|250px|A scooping piston pump used with follower plate.The red arrows show the flow of the material, the blue ones the movement of the piston and the white arrows show, how the air is sucked out underneath the disposable follower plate...

according to their own patent is manufactured as well as besides a number of specialized devices for material transport and material preparation for liquid and pasty materials, evon for such containing highly abrasive fillers.

In the area of automation Scheugenpflug provides all systems for pretreatment, for casting, for after treatment and for control and handling of the parts that have to be filled. This is a consistent increase of the supply to be able to harmonize all manufacturing steps in the best possible way.
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