The specialist for soft mud presses and more – De Boer Machines Nederland B.V.

»1 Imitating a huge mould chain, the new headquarters building appears to be resting on brickwork columns

»2 Taking a mould box as an example, De Boer‘s Managing Director Dries van Hapert explains the new tracking system

»3 The De Boer engineering department

»4 A new processing system takes shape

»5a Mould chain with press hopper

»5b Mould chain with press hoper and „handformatic“ system

»5c Mould chain with press hopper and water-struck apparatus

»5d Mould chain with Hubert filler heads

»5e Mould box with Aberson cascade system

»6 Om Brakash Badlani, managing director of Praya Clay Products in Varanasi, showing off a brick made with an Ishtika mixer press

»7 Measham brick factory uses equipment from De Boer

»8 The Measham factory‘s pallet handling system

»9 The Petersen-De Boer press

Last year, Dutch machine builder De Boer celebrated not only its 75th founding anniversary, but also the inauguration of a new multifunctional building. The soft-mud specialist has decided to capture the Indian market with its soft mud presses and to debut a new filling solution for soft-mud presses at Ceramitec.

1 Introduction

When Gerrit de Boer founded his own company in 1936, he could hardly have guessed that, in the span of 75 years, his little workshop would evolve into one of the world‘s best-known producers of soft mud presses for the heavy clay industry. In fact, though, the De Boer Group did not stop there: they now also make and supply pallet handling machines, mixer presses, sand dryers, sand handling equipment, colorant dosing systems, dust extraction systems, process-water purification systems and a well-known line of mould chain systems.

In 2010, Machinefabriek De Boer and sister company...