Congratulations to Händle on 150 years of customer-driven innovation!
HÄNDLE GmbH Maschinen und Anlagenbau celebrates 150 years in business this year. The company has come a long way since Karl Händle opened his machine shop and smithy near Mühlacker, Germany, in 1870. They’ve built and delivered over 6,000 extruders, 1,000 box feeders and many more material processing machines.
Today, Händle is a world leader in engineering and manufacturing for bulk raw material solutions. They became part of The Steele Group in 2000. We’re proud to congratulate Gerhard Fischer, Händle’s Managing Director, and his colleagues on reaching this milestone.
May they enjoy many more years of success!
How does a company make it to 150?
In 1876, six years after opening his business, Karl Händle introduced his training program. He knew that the company’s long-term success would depend on a strong culture, with veteran engineers and machinery makers sharing their values and knowledge with a younger generation.
Today, Germans recognize Händle as a reliable training partner in the region. The company works closely with local schools, giving its apprentices a solid grounding in the theory and practice of machinery for processing bulk raw materials. Händle also offers a dual study program, focusing on economic engineering, mechanical engineering, business administration and business informatics.
The dual study program gives Händle a pipeline of qualified candidates to manage the increasing complexity of its production processes. It also helps them compete for talent in their region, which is home to other engineering-driven companies.
Specialists in adding value to bulk raw materials
Händle makes a complete line of souring plant excavators for cross- and longitudinal dredging.
Händle is well established in Europe and the CIS, exporting to about 50 countries around the world. Along with Direxa Engineering, our sister EPC company in The Steele Group, Händle gives us the ability to provide complete single-source solutions to customers.
Like Steele, Händle’s roots are in heavy clay. Their experience with tough raw materials makes them a key player in The Steele Group’s expansion into by-product management and resource recovery. The lessons we’ve learned in shaping clays and shales have value for iron & steel mills, ferro alloy mines and gypsum/wallboard producers.
Händle provides application engineering and machinery for environmental engineering projects, cementitious panel production, landfill and sewer sealing machines. In addition, they specialize in bulk material proportioning for granular materials — FGD lime, talc and pulverized fly ash.
Together, we offer accountability and efficiency, in solutions shaped by engineering and backed by a global sales and service network.
A mature and evolving product line
As machinery manufacturers, we admire the power and reliability of Händle machines. They offer a complete line of stockpiling, feeding, sizing, mixing and extrusion equipment.
Händle has a particular excellence in shaping technologies, both in semi-stiff extrusion and press systems. Their latest innovation, the NOVA III eccentric roof tile press, sets a new standard for production of large-format bricks, bricks with complex geometries and thin bricks.
These products require more shearing force than a 100-ton press can muster. The NOVA III delivers 400 tons of pressure, with a transverse force of 180 tons. So you can increase output and improve quality and efficiency, with the ease of operation and maintenance you need.
Never ones to sit on a lead, Händle also plans to introduce a new machine for accessory bricks in 2021. Watch this space for details or visit https://www.haendle.com/haendle/produkte/.
Building relationships by building trust
We were proud to join forces with Händle in 2000. We’re both in the business of material preparation and shaping. We emphasize engineering and service. We share the same values.
From the beginning, Händle has built relationships by building trust. It offers consistency and reliability, in an age where both can be hard to come by. Everything they do, from engineering through service after the sale, comes from their focus on the customer.
And that’s how a company makes it to 150. Congratulations, Händle, on a job well done!