Quality – the key to the future

Dr Reinhold Festge, managing partner of the HAVER & BOECKER group

The HAVER & BOECKER group

Interchange and training of individual employees takes place between the parent company in Oelde and the subsidiaries. Chinese production engineer Song Feng, seen here during assembly of a HAVER ROTO CLASSIC^® 1, is undergoing three years of training at the Oelde machinery plant as preparation for a further international deployment.

The FEIGE subsidiary, of Bad Oldesloe, Germany, produces machinery and systems for packing of liquid and pasteous products into containers (IBCs), drums, canisters, tubs and bags. This illustration shows the Type 34 automatic tub-filler, which can fill 500 tubs per hour (each 20 kg) with building materials or foodstuffs.

HAVER & BOECKER Latinoamericana, in Brazil, produces pelletizing disks with a diameter of 7.5 meters and an output of 150 t/h for production of iron-ore pellets.

HAVER subsidiary IBAU HAMBURG supplies self-discharging cement-carrying ships, ship loading and unloading terminals, and transshipment and mixing equipment. This photo shows the Brunsbüttel cement terminal located on the Kiel Canal.

IBAU HAMBURG‘s range also includes high-capacity silo facilities for raw meal, cement, lime, gypsum and fly ash, of diameters from 10 to 30 m and capacities from 1,000 to 40,000 tonnes, with more than 7,000 reference installations around the globe. Shown here: a multi-chamber silo facility incorporating a mixer, installed at the Lafarge plant in Karsdorf.

Dr. Reinhold Festge, managing shareholder of the Haver & Boecker group, spoke to Dr. Petra Strunk, of ZKG INTERNATIONAL.

HAVER & BOECKER, wire-weavers and mechanical engineers, of Oelde, Germany, can look back on a corporate history of no less than one hundred and twenty-two years. Carl Haver and Eduard Boecker founded their wire-weaving works in Hohenlimburg, to the south of the present-day Ruhr industrial region, in 1887, their first products taking the form of wire cloths. The company relocated to Oelde, in Westphalia, in 1897, and began, with fifteen employees, the additional production of wire strips for bag closures for the cement industry. Initial contacts abroad had already made it possible to begin and...

Issue 08/2012

125 years future

Haver & Boecker

If anyone had told my father during the first few years of his business career that his company would have operations abroad, he would probably have laughed incredulously, are words found in...

Issue 12/2013