New stretch hood installation for building materials manufacturer Lücking

»1 Lücking produces clay masonry bricks in different formats

»1 The Beumer stretch hood M is suitable for flexible production

»2 It packages the palletized stacks with a stretch film

»3 The bricks are therefore safely protected against external influences

»4 The hood is drawn over the entire pallet load up to a point below the pallet, which ensures a high level of load safety

»5 The Beumer stretch hood M now ensures that pallets are packaged efficiently. 80 pallets are covered with a stretch hood every hour

August Lücking GmbH & Co. KG with its headquarters in Paderborn is one of the leading producers of building materials in Germany. In order to pack backing bricks efficiently, the company is replacing its ageing shrink hood system with the Beumer stretch hood M. This multi-format packaging system can automatically change up to three different film formats as required. The building materials manufacturer therefore saves a considerable amount of time and also achieves much better load safety.

August Lücking GmbH manufactures 200 000 m³ common bricks, 300 000 m² precast floor slabs and 50 000 m²prefabricated walls every year. The portfolio also includes flights of stairs, balconies and prefabricated parts for special applications. The brickworks was developed in 1899 from an agricultural operation in Paderborn. Today, the company employs 140 staff at its Warburg-Bonenburg plant. “Up to now, we have used a machine which covered the palletized stacks with a shrink hood in order to pack our bricks”, explains Hubertus Becker, Plant Manager of the brickworks Lücking. The bricks are...