HISTORY

In 1999 ECON was founded by a team of specialists in plastics machinery for the invention, development, assembly and marketing of new technologies for screen-changers (plastic melt-filters) and underwater pelletizers.

 

• 2001 - Patent for screen changer with automatic backflush unit
• 2002 - First delivery of an ECON underwater pelletizing system for PET
• 2004 - Patent application for an automatic venting system for screen changer
• 2005 - trademark for the developed high wear resistant CECONID® plate
• 2007 - ECON receives the Upper Austrian innovation award
• 2008 - ECON gets the Austrian state's innovation award ECONOVIUS within the category SME
• today - ECON offers the leading technology in underwater pelletizing