This year HAVER & BOECKER is especially proud of the fact that its workhorse, the ROTO-PACKER®, has been successful on the market for 50 years. The jubilee was celebrated at the Machinery Division in Oelde/Germany on 30.08.2010. Both the first ROTO-PACKER® 6 RV, as well as the youngest generation, the ROTOCLASSIC® 12 RCC, were installed at the PHOENIX Zementwerke in Beckum/Germany (Fig. 1). The demand for higher packing and loading speeds at cement plants at the end of the 1950s was the impetus behind the development of the rotary packing machine that replaced the HAVER inline packers with up to 6 filling spouts established at that time. However, yet another milestone can be celebrated: the production of its 10 000th MEC III electronic weigher, which has also written a success story of its own. 5000 units have been sold in the past two and...
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