On 11/12 September, Gustav Eirich GmbH & Co. KG, the machine engineering company founded in 1863, was joined by the German Ceramic Society Regd (DKG) and around 120 attendees from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Turkey in celebrating its 150th anniversary with a celebratory ceramics symposium at the company’s headquarters in Hardheim. In his welcome address, Werner Griebe, DKG Board Chairman, thanked Paul Eirich, who represents the fourth generation of the family and is the long-serving Managing Partner of the family-run company, for the invitation. For Griebe, the guarantees for the Eirich’s success are innovation as well as its closeness to customers and markets – and that for 150 years now. The Director at Duravit AG spoke on the big changes in design and technology for ceramic sanitaryware in recent years. It was essential, Griebe stressed, that machine engineers, raw materials suppliers and ceramic manufacturers worked together in developing new processes, to ensure that the ceramics industry stays in Germany. In his speech, Paul Eirich praised the DKG as an enormously flexible association which has always adapted to the market and the prevailing situations. Eirich joined the DKG as a member back in 1925. In 1932 at the DKG Annual Meeting in Berlin, a DKG member presented the Eirich mixer as an extremely useful machine. In the following years, kneaders and pan mills were replaced with Eirich mixers. The Eirich success story started back before 1900 with the company founder Gustav Eirich manufacturing, for instance, roller mills for relatively small brickworks and potteries. The company started building mixers in 1903. With the planetary mixer designed in 1906, the company went into ceramic applications. With the development of the countercurrent mixer in 1924 and the subsequent intensive mixer in 1960, almost all areas of ceramic production as well as the processing of carbon compounds were covered. For many branches, like, for example, the refractories industry, the Eirich mixer is the standard worldwide. Today the company supplies Eirich mixers from 1 l to 12 000 l. With regard to customer closeness, Eirich has built up an international network of sales, production...
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