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Handling Site Pushes Growth

More than 650 machines and containers will be leaving the Sassenberg Plant in 2015

Already since the foundation of the Sassenberg site in 2000, blenders, handling machines and containers are produced in large quantities there. In 2011, the production site was extended with an investment of EUR 2.5 million and supplemented by a construction building, so that the premises are now fully developed. At present, 50 employees work at Plant 2. The Technical Manager Thorsten Wesselmann looks back on a very successful year 2015: “Last year, we achieved a new record with the production of more than 350 machines. In total, we manufactured 150 lifting columns of various sizes which we shipped worldwide.” The specialists from Sassenberg also built more than 50 pharmaceutical and laboratory blenders and thus contribute to the world market leadership of L.B. Bohle in the field of blenders.

Other machines produced at the Sassenberg site include Bohle Turbo Sieves and Turbo Mills as well as the PUR cleaning system, which all gain the trust of customers worldwide. In addition to these machines, more than 300 containers in various designs left the production site. For handling machines, too, there is an increasing trend towards more complex global solutions. “We are designing complete systems consisting of linked individual machines more and more frequently,” says the Technical Manager Thorsten Wesselmann.

“For instance, a project may require that we combine one to two lifting systems with a blending system.“ For this task, we cannot only consider the mechanical interfaces that have to be very precise in containment applications, but we also have to take into account the control technology features. The complexity in terms of coordination and integration greatly increases when the system is implemented in cooperation with a third-party supplier,” Thorsten Wesselmann explains.

Intensive exchange between construction and production

These requirements lead to more complex tasks for the Bohle team which maintains intensive exchange between the construction and production departments. A complete system may consist of the following components:

• blender with container as central component

• lifting column for handling the container that receives the blended and sieved product

• lifting column for lifting and positioning a sieving machine which is swivelled between the containers

• containment valves

• central control with touch panel operation

With this increasing complexity, the management team of L.B. Bohle has recognized the need to not only rely on their engineering knowledge, but focus even more on the expertise needed to integrate multiple processes. Therefore, details involving controls, sensors, analytics and process optimization influence the development and production process early on.

Lorenz Bohle is convinced that the Sassenberg Plant 2 will remain an important driver for turnover growth. “In addition to the process machines which are being built in the two plants in Ennigerloh, we

manufacture handling machines here in an innovative and efficient way. To that end, our customers can rely on and feel confident with Bohle quality ’Made in Germany’ in all their process steps.”

Handling Site Pushes Growth

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  • Industriestraße 18, 59320 Ennigerloh, Germany
  • L.B. Bohle Maschinen + Verfahren GmbH

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