Opening Ceremony for the LIT Factory in Linz

Vlnr Thomas Luger, Knut Hilgert (motan holding) und Horst Bar vor der motan Anlage in der LIT Factory. / Left to right: Thomas Luger (Luger GesmbH), Knut Hilgert (motan holding) and Horst Bar (Luger GesmbH) in front of a motan system at the LIT Factory in Linz.

The goal of the Open Innovation Center is to bring research, business and industry closer together. In addition to other well-known companies, motan is a member of a consortium which will jointly promote process engineering innovations in the field of plastics technology and digitization. The LIT factory will not only be used as a learning factory for education and training, it will also serve as a showroom and testing center for basic research in the plastics processing industry.

The LIT factory is equipped with a motan drying, conveying and gravimetric dosing system for supplying two Engel injection molding machines. In the future, the plant will be expanded for a Leistritz extruder. The plant contains various motan components from the areas of drying, conveying, controls, dosing and mixing. The plant has been designed to provide the materials and throughputs associated with a research facility’s flexible operation. New product developments for motan devices can also be initiated and tested at the factory in the future.