CPT International 02/2019

COMPANY
Photos: Inacore
The new Inacore core shop in Ergoldsbach is intended to set standards and increase the
potentials of core production.
The core shop of the future
It is intended to become a benchmark for the sector regarding digitalization, efficiency
and network ing of plants and machinery: the new Inacore core shop, a joint venture
between Laempe Mössner Sinto and R. Scheuchl GmbH. To manufacture more than
1.5 million core packages for engine production at the BMW light-metal foundry in
Landshut during coming years production began a year ago. Now three-shift operation
has also started in the Lower Bavarian town of Ergoldsbach to further increase capacity.
Robert Piterek, Düsseldorf
At the official opening of the
works in Ergoldsbach in late
September 2018 it was announced
that in future up to two thousand
vehicles with engine blocks produced
using Inacore cores were to roll off
BMW’s assembly line every day. The
BMW light-metal foundry in Landshut
had already been using inorganically
bound cores from Inacore for the casting
molds to produce the 4-cylinder
gasoline engines of the 3 and 5 Series
since early 2018. Construction of the
state-of-the-art core shop, costing double-digit
millions of euros, was financed
by the partners and banks.
Tight time window for construction
of the works
The countdown to start production
began when construction of the works
was initiated in mid-2017 in the industrial
area of Ergoldsbach. The plan was
that the first samples would be ready in
December 2017, and that delivery of
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