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It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Brian Peters, our former Service Manager, who has passed away after battling a long term illness. Originally with Mortimers, Brian joined Illig when Illig Gmbh set up Illig UK Ltd in 1983 and was the...

‘Engineering excellence’- the general term used by the industry to describe Illig’s RDM machinery. When looking to produce highly accurate large volumes of thermoformed products, our RDM punch and die tilt bed machinery is the industry standard, the ‘go to’. Now...

An awful lot of focus in manufacturing points towards reducing the waste caused by the finished product, just as much benefit can be found by looking to reduce your embodied energy cost. At Illig we are as concerned about this as you are, so are constantly looking to...

Working closely with the client and our German manufacturing centre, Illig UK significantly improved the manufacturing schedule during October and November 2020. These improvements meant the machine was installed before the Christmas break and the customer could...

All at Illig would like to wish Geoff Brooks all the best for his upcoming retirement at the end of the year. A hardened veteran of the plastics industry Geoff has been with Illig for more than two decades and all at the company would like to thank him for his...

Welcome to the new look illig.co.uk. At Illig UK ltd we have had an active presence online since 1999 (just imagine, there were websites in 1999!) we decided it was time to revitalise and update our existing website. The new concept was created to take a dual approach...

ILLIG, the German machinery manufacturer, will build a new production site in Romania. During the next few years ILLIG Maschinenbau SRL will develop into a further production site outside Germany located in Sura Mica industrial park in the Sibiu region.

Thermoforming Sustainability, environment and the reduction of plastic packaging are all debated topics. There are a variety of possible solutions with recyclable, organic-based or bio-degradable plastic and material combinations. ILLIG offers innovative and...