A German works that builds
material preparation machines
for fifteen heavy industries.
Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich GmbH and Co KG is headquartered in Hardheim, Germany. Intensive mixers, grinding technology, analytics and turnkey plant engineering, under one roof and one signature.
What the works is for.
Eirich designs and builds intensive mixers, grinding mills, quality analytics and turnkey material preparation plants for heavy industry. The customer is a plant owner who needs a recipe to come out the same at production scale as it did on the bench, and who needs a German works that will answer the phone ten years later.
The differentiator is a patented mixing principle: a pan rotates on its own axis, and a mixing tool is mounted eccentrically and driven on a second independent shaft. That configuration gives a process engineer two handles on the process, energy input and shear, without touching the vessel geometry. It is what makes a 0.1 liter bench unit read the same as a 12,000 liter production machine.
Everything the works ships is built around that principle. Mixers in batch and continuous variants. Grinding technology for the feed. QualiMaster inline sensors for the control room. ProView for the plant manager. Turnkey plants when a customer wants a single German signature on the whole line.
Four working principles at the Hardheim works.
Not a values page. The way a machine actually gets from a brief to a commissioned line on a plant floor.
One principle, three scales.
A recipe qualified on a 0.1 liter laboratory unit runs on a 12,000 liter production machine because the pan and tool geometry is shared across the range. That is engineering, not marketing.
German works, global service.
Machines are designed, machined and commissioned from the Hardheim works. Service is delivered through local engineering partners and through Teleservice from the Hardheim desk.
Single source responsibility.
A plant operator can buy a single machine, a turnkey line or a digital retrofit from the same team. The same engineers who specified the mixer commission the sensors and sign the handover.
Process fidelity, not formula sheets.
Eirich does not ship a recipe book. The patented mechanics let a process engineer tune energy input and shear independently, so the plant owns its own recipe.
From a first specification to a running line, in five stages.
A single engineering team owns the machine from the first drawing to the first batch and beyond.
Specify
Feed chemistry, throughput target and discharge constraints. A senior process engineer replies within two working days.
Pilot
Qualify the recipe on a laboratory or small scale unit. Measure energy, shear and discharge cleanliness.
Engineer
Size the production machine, specify the variant and options, and lock the schedule at order.
Commission
Eirich process engineers install, calibrate and hand over the machine to the plant operations team on site.
Operate
QualiMaster sensors feed inline process data. ProView visualises it. Teleservice keeps a line from stopping.
Engineering in German,
spoken in six languages.
Service and sales conversations run in German, English, French, Spanish, Mandarin and Russian, so a plant engineer in Foshan, Lyon, Monterrey or Novokuznetsk talks to the Hardheim desk in the language of their plant floor.
Come to Hardheim, or we come to you.
A visit to the works. A call with a senior process engineer. A pilot on a laboratory unit. Whichever moves your project forward.