History
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1951 The first workshop was small but well equipped for the time. The truck had to drive up to this gate for loading. The finished parts were loaded by means of chain pulleys. Electric pulleys and a crane were only used in later years. |
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1952 In good weather or when there was a shortage of space, production could or had to be moved outside. Mr. Mallapree senior (right) and his team were always able to find a way to deal with increasing space requirements. |
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The senior and junior bosses with the first company car. This “sticky tape jalopy” was purchased in Bremen in 1951 for DM 4,000. It was used to transport several conveyor chains and lots of material. A steel bar was always kept in the boot as a spare axle. |
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Hi-tech of the 50s – the first lathe in the early years of the firm. Mr. Winkelmann concentrates on the machining process and adjusts all of the settings manually by means of crank handles. |
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After the first years of production in the small workshop, construction of the first “big” factory workshop began in Essen-Kettwig. Production was completely halted during this time as the entire workforce was involved with the factory construction.
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One of the first machine tools from the first years. Ultramodern at the time, this drilling machine ran with drive belts. |
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Bucket elevator construction in the early 60s. We produced an inclined bucket elevator with a clearance width of 1,500 mm for "Kali und Salz Werk Wintershall". Once again, we ran out of production space. |
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A really big transport task in the early 60s. All of the parts had to be picked up from the production facility per low-loader – but the transfer to the railway succeeded in the end. |
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The factory in Essen-Kettwig soon became too small. The limits of the expansion options were reached with the extension of the main and auxiliary buildings. |
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With a little bit of skill, bucket chains can be put into position completely by crane, in this case at the BASF plant in Antwerp. |
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A stand-out project of the 1960s. We were commissioned to fit the BASF plant in Antwerp with bucket elevators and troughed chain conveyors. Shown here is the troughed chain conveyor as the connecting bridge in the transport of fertilizer. |
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A milestone of production in the 70s. We supplied BASF in Ludwigshafen with troughed chain conveyors for filter cake consisting of industrial sludge. In the 90s, we extended the conveyance routes to a length of approx. 1,100 m. |
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After a construction period of only 10 weeks, we were able to move into our new factory and offices at our current location in Rheinstrasse in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In February 1990, the floor in the office building was laid onto an almost floating screed. The construction of the factory was urgently required to enable the production of larger systems and it was of course a good decision. |