noris plastic

What noris plastic does

noris plastic GmbH & Co. KG is a family-owned German plastics processing and specialty machine engineering company founded in 1969 in Nuremberg and now headquartered in Altdorf bei Nürnberg. The company operates two integrated business lines: Maschinenbau (machine building) producing single-screw extruders, twin-screw extruders including the patented Twinflex system, and complete turnkey extrusion lines; and Kunststoffverarbeitung (plastics processing) producing custom plastic winding cores, profiles, pipes and cable conduits from virgin, recycled and bio-based thermoplastics.

The underlying technology platform is extrusion-based, anchored by a patented non-intermeshing tangential twin-screw extruder (Twinflex, granted 2021) co-developed with TU Chemnitz that combines single-screw, twin-screw and calender functions in one system with variable shear rate control for gentle processing of regenerative raw materials. Production is supported by in-house tool construction, a proprietary technical center for material and production testing, and approximately 4,500 m² of hall and office space on a 15,000 m² site with ISO 9001:2015 certification.

The company makes money through a combination of capital equipment sales (extruders and complete systems with throughputs from 0.1 kg/h to 1500 kg/h), plastic semi-finished products sold to industrial customers, extruder rental and leasing, and supporting services including training, consulting and recycling-system design. Sales are direct B2B with global reach anchored in Europe, serving verticals including construction and infrastructure, plastic compounding, pharmaceutical and food processing, agriculture, electronics and utilities. The company employs approximately 30 people, is led by second-generation owners Ralf and Axel Tenner, and has no external funding or parent company.

Name

noris plastic

Legal name

noris plastic GmbH & Co. KG

Website

https://norisplastic.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

noris plastic is a family-owned German plastics processor and specialty extruder manufacturer producing single-screw and twin-screw extruders, complete extrusion systems, and custom plastic winding cores, profiles, pipes and cable conduits for infrastructure, pharmaceutical, food, electronics and industrial customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Plastics Processing Machinery and Extruded Plastic Products

NAICS

Plastics Pipe, Pipe Fitting, and Unlaminated Profile Shape Manufacturing (32612), All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (333248)

SIC

Plastics Products, Nec (3089), Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery) (3550)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYIMANAFAJ

Custom Injection Molding & Contract Manufacturing (Job Shops/CMs)

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Plastics & Rubber Manufacturing/Injection-Molded Plastics Manufacturing

Keywords

• Plastic extrusion
• Twin-screw extruders
• Plastic pipes
• Cable protection conduits
• Plastic winding cores

Headquarters

HQ city

Nuremberg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Extruder Sales: Sale of single-screw and twin-screw extruders including laboratory, pilot and production-scale machines with throughputs from 0.1 kg/h to 1500 kg/h.
2. Complete Extrusion Systems: Planning and delivery of complete extrusion systems tailored to specific requirements, including assembly, commissioning and training.
3. Extruder Rental and Leasing: Short- and long-term rental of extruders with screw diameters from 16 to 40 mm. Leasing partnerships with house bank and financing partners.
4. Plastic Semi-finished Products: Custom extrusion of winding cores, plastic profiles, cable protection tubes and plastic pipes in various thermoplastics and technical plastics. Products made from virgin material, standard material or recyclates.
5. Training, Consulting and Technical Center Services: Customer support through training sessions, technical consulting and material/production testing in their own technical center. Knowledge transfer services in plastic processing and extrusion.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

noris plastic designs, manufactures and sells extrusion machinery (single-screw and twin-screw extruders including the patented Twinflex system, plus complete turnkey extrusion lines) and produces custom plastic semi-finished products including winding cores/hubs, plastic profiles, plastic pipes and cable protection conduits. The company also offers supporting services such as extruder rental and leasing, technical center testing, training, consulting, material optimization and recycling system design, all built on over 50 years of in-house process engineering expertise and in-house tool construction.

Product overview

noris plastic is a plastics processing and mechanical engineering company offering a comprehensive portfolio centered on extrusion technology. The core offering includes single screw extruders (Mini, N1, NPE, ESE, NCE series) and twin screw extruders (noris2S series including the patented Twinflex), complemented by complete turnkey extrusion systems. The company also provides plastic semi-finished products: winding cores/hubs, plastic profiles, plastic pipes, and cable conduits in various thermoplastics. Supporting services include extruder rental/leasing, material optimization consulting, recycling systems design, and technical center/training services. All products are manufactured in-house in Germany with over 50 years of process engineering expertise.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Single-Screw Extruders (Einschneckenextruder) Single-screw extruders ranging from compact laboratory machines to high-performance production models including Mini (16-20 mm, 0.1-12 kg/h), N1 (16-40 mm, 0.1-40 kg/h), NPE (20-40 mm, 1-40 kg/h), ESE (50-150 mm, 50-1000 kg/h), NCE co-extruders (5-30 mm, 1-15 kg/h) and custom Sondermodell ESE 50, sold to industrial customers for plastic processing.
• Twin-Screw Extruders (Doppelschneckenextruder) Twin-screw extruders available as co-rotating intermeshing or non-intermeshing tangential systems. Models include noris2S-20 (42 mm, 15-500 kg/h), noris2S-25 (25 mm, 2-125 kg/h), noris2S-34 (34 mm, 5-350 kg/h), noris2S-42 (15-500 kg/h) and noris2S-60 (60 mm, 200-1500 kg/h), sold to compound manufacturers and industrial processors.
• Twinflex Twin-Screw Compounder Patented non-intermeshing tangential twin-screw compounder developed with TU Chemnitz, combining functions of single-screw extruder, twin-screw extruder and calender in one system (25-60 mm, 40-50 L/D). Variable screw direction and speed enables material-specific shear-rate adjustment for gentle processing of sensitive and regenerative raw materials, sold to compound manufacturers.
• Complete Extrusion Systems (Extruder Komplettanlagen) Turnkey complete extrusion systems configured exactly to customer requirements, from material feed to downstream units, including assembly, commissioning and training services, sold to industrial processors and compound manufacturers.
• Extruder Rental and Leasing Flexible short-term and long-term rental of extruders with screw diameters from 16 to 40 mm, plus leasing partnerships with the company's house bank and financing partners, with a minimum rental period of 4 weeks, offered to industrial customers needing to test or scale capacity.
• Winding Cores and Hubs (Wickelhülsen) Customized plastic winding cores and sleeves in PS, PVC, PP, ABS, HIPS and PE antistatic materials with wall thicknesses of 1-25 mm and inner diameters of 1-6 inches, available in food and pharmaceutical compliant versions with dimensional accuracy of ±0.2 mm, sold to film converters, packaging and industrial customers.
• Plastic Profiles (Kunststoff Profile) Custom extruded plastic profiles in thermoplastics (PE, HDPE, PP, PS, PVC) and technical plastics (PMMA, PC, ABS, TPE, PU) with meter weights from 10 g/m to 6000 g/m, for construction, electrical engineering, automotive and industrial applications.
• Plastic Pipes (Kunststoffrohre) Precision plastic pipes in HDPE, PP, PVC, PS, ABS and PC materials with diameters of 2-200 mm, wall thicknesses of 1-25 mm and lengths up to 12 m (longer if wound), available in round, oval or square cross-sections, sold to industrial customers for construction and infrastructure.
• Cable Protection Conduits (Kabelschutzrohre) Cable protection pipes and systems for power and telecommunications infrastructure, available in HDPE, PP and PVC as solid-wall or multi-layer pipes with diameters of 10-190 mm, suitable for voltages up to 525 kV, sold to utilities, network operators and infrastructure contractors.
• Material Optimization Services (Materialoptimierung) Consulting and testing services for material optimization including filling for mechanical properties, lightweight construction design, material substitution and processing of renewable raw materials and biopolymers, sold to industrial customers developing new plastic products.
• Recycling Systems and Circular Economy Solutions Custom recycling systems and circular economy solutions including take-back of customer materials, production of new products from recycled materials and complete recycling plant design for efficient material cycles, sold to compound manufacturers and industrial processors.
• Technical Center, Training and Consulting (Technikum, Schulungen und Beratung) In-house technical center for material and production testing under real production conditions, training services delivered on-site or at customer premises, and consulting for extrusion processes, material selection and complete production line configuration, sold to industrial customers and compound manufacturers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Dimensional accuracy of winding core cutting: +/- 0.2 mm
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Technische Universität ChemnitzcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011Long-term research partnership for joint development of a flexible twin-screw extruder with non-intermeshing screws, particularly suitable for processing alternative raw materials. The collaboration resulted in the patented Twinflex technology combining extruder and calender functions in one system. The patent has been granted since early 2021.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Coperion: Global market leader in twin-screw extruders and compounding systems for plastics. Directly comparable to noris plastic's twin-screw extruder business, particularly for compounding applications, though at much larger scale and broader product range.
• Bausano: Italian manufacturer of plastic extrusion lines including twin-screw extruders for PVC, PE, PP, and recycled materials. Comparable in scope of extrusion machinery offerings and focus on custom line configurations for plastics processors.
• Reifenhäuser: German family-owned manufacturer of extrusion lines for films, sheets, and nonwovens. Comparable as a German Mittelstand extrusion machinery specialist with a similar heritage, though focused on downstream film/sheet lines rather than compounding.
• Leistritz: German manufacturer of twin-screw extruders for compounding, plastics processing, and pharmaceutical extrusion. Closely comparable to noris plastic in twin-screw technology, geographic origin, and customer overlap in regulated applications.
• Theysohn: German-based manufacturer of twin-screw extruders and compound systems, with particular strength in masterbatch and recyclate processing. Directly comparable to noris plastic's Twinflex positioning in gentle processing of recycled and bio-based materials.
• Pipelife: European plastic pipe manufacturer serving infrastructure, utilities, and construction. Comparable to noris plastic's plastic pipe and cable protection business, with overlap in municipal and infrastructure drainage/cable protection segments.
• Uponor: Global manufacturer of plastic pipes and fittings for building, infrastructure, and utilities. Comparable to noris plastic's plastic pipe and cable conduit product business, particularly for infrastructure and energy applications.

Emerging players

• Xtrutech: UK-based specialist in twin-screw extruders for compounding, devolatilization, and reactive extrusion. Comparable as a smaller twin-screw specialist competing in similar compounding niches, with comparable scale and specialization.

Broad incumbents

• KraussMaffei: Large German manufacturer of plastics and rubber processing machinery, including extruders, injection molding, and reaction process machinery. Broader incumbent with overlapping extrusion capability but a much larger product portfolio and global footprint.
• ENGEL: Austrian manufacturer of injection molding machinery and automation. Broader incumbent in plastics processing equipment with overlapping customer base (plastics converters), though primarily injection molding rather than extrusion.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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