The Company

Maschinenfabrik Köppern GmbH & Co. KG is a medium-sized group of companies with branch operations in the USA, Canada, Venezuela, Australia, China and India as well as agents around the world.During its over 100 years of existence, Köppern has established itself as a specialised supplier of roller presses for briquetting and compacting fine-grained bulk materials as well as high-pressure grinding rollers for grinding brittle and coarse materials. To date, Köppern has suppliedmore than 800 roller presses and high-pressure grinding rollers to more than 50 countries. Köppern GmbH is a highly innovative company, which continuously develops innovations such as HEXADUR®, a wear protection system, which was introduced in 1997.

Range of Products and Activities

Köppern is among the leading suppliers of equipment for briquetting solids fuels, chemical products, sponge iron, ores and minerals, ceramic materials etc. Roller presses for comminution are used, e. g. for crushing ores, limestone, coal and cement clinker. Due to the use of highly abrasion resistant tools for specific applications, e. g. for hot briquetting at up to 750°C, Köppern's roller presses satisfy the most exacting requirements. In the area of process technology, Köppern operates a test facility where equipment and processspecific data are developed for the design of customer plants. This makes sure that plants are tailor-made to suit customers' specific needs. So far, Köppern has tested more than 2,000 different materials for their process suitability.

Köppern also offers contract machining services. ECM (electro-chemical machining) has established itself as a highly efficient process for machining high-strength metallic materials. The process produces burr-free surfaces with excellent characteristics. Areas of application are: vehicle construction and drive engineering, aviation and aerospace or turbine engineering, as well as food-processing and medical engineering.

Customer Service

Specialists from Köppern visit international customers on a regular basis to inform them of the latest technical developments and make sure that their machines function properly.

References

> ESSAR Steel for DRI hot briquetting (HBI)
> PCS/Canada for potash compacting
> TVM/Hungary for NPK compacting
> CST/Brazil for briquetting residues from metallurgical processes
> Maanshan Iron & Steel Company/China for ore comminution

Certificates

> DIN EN ISO 9001, IQNet

Innovations

> Fertiliser compactors with single shaft drives (planetary gearboxes)
> High-pressure roller presses for cement and ore grinding