ABOUT
OUR COMPANY
Where innovative spirit and cosmopolitanism meet over 130 years of tradition
Haver & Boecker is a family-managed, midsize company with its headquarters in Oelde, Westphalia.
Founded in 1887 the Haver & Boecker oHG comprises the Wire Weaving and Machinery Division. In these areas it is active on all five continents worldwide with more than 50 subsidiaries and 150 agencies as a technology leader and trendsetter.
WIRE WEAVING DIVISION
With its global network of subsidiaries and production facilities is one of the internationally most significant manufacturers of woven wire cloth.
With the highest precision, we manufacture both simple and highly complex technical wire mesh products which are used in many different branches.
Primarily for screening and filtration in the chemical, plastics, electronics, automotive and food industries, in aviation and aerospace, in industrial and test sieving, but also as a design fabric in many different industries and as architectural wire mesh in the building industry.
MACHINERY DIVISION
Is recognised internationally as a specialist operation in the fields of preparation, transportation, storage, mixing, filling, packaging, palletisation and loading of bulk goods.
With our technology brands we perfect material and work flows as well as whole process sequences in many different branches. Always conscious that there is no such thing as a universal production flow – but always with the motivation to find the perfect flow for the individual requirements of every customer.
FIGURES – DATA – FACTS
- Founding year : 1887
- Employees : more than 3.150 worldwide in 2021
- Apprentices : More than 100 annually in different training years
- Wire Weaving Division : Wire mesh products for filtration, screening, architecture & design as well as particle measurement technology
- Machinery Division : Machines and equipment for weighing, packaging and minerals processing technology
- Managing partners : Dipl.-Ing. Walter Haver / M.Sc. Niklas Haver / Dipl.-Kfm. Florian Festge
- Shareholder : Dr. Reinhold Festge
OUR INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
From Oelde in Westfalia, out into the whole world: We go this way not only with our machine solutions and wire mesh fabric products which are used all over the world.
As a company we also made our way out into the world early on. It all began with first contacts with America in the 1920s.
Since then we have been expanding our international company and sales network continuously. Today we are represented by our subsidiaries on all five continents very definitely also somewhere near you.
HISTORY
TRADITION AND ADVANCEMENT
We have been making quality products and setting trends since 1887. Recognise current market opportunities and serve them with quality products which are the product of one’s own development and production facilities.
That was already the incentive for our company founder Carl Haver as he founded the company back in 1887 together with his cousin Eduard Boecker in the Märkisch town of Hohenlimburg. At that time Hohenlimburg was the German centre of the wire drawing and wire weaving activities.
Advancement in those days demanded a certain pioneer spirit and perseverance in order to achieve ambitious highest quality standards. Characteristics which we have retained until today.
OUR RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
Eduard Boecker had already left the company in 1891. The beginning times were very difficult due to the working conditions in Hohenlimburg and competitors in Thüring. This changed in 1897 with the move to Oelde in Westphalia.
The Machinery Division was founded in 1925 which, together with the Wire Weaving Division, became the foundation for today’s globally active company.
The design of the product range and the production processes were always targeted, in a timely fashion, on the needs and requirements of the respective markets.
Cooperative partnership with customers, experience, continuous further development of products and manufacturing processes as well as the knowledge and know-how of the workforce all create a significant basis for the success of the company.
THE FAMILY CREATED SECURITY DURING THE UPS AND THE DOWNS OF THE ECONOMY AND HISTORY
Furthermore, the family has been fully engaged in management since the founding of the company. Today Haver & Boecker is being managed by the fourth and fifth generation as a family-managed, midsize company with headquarters in Oelde, Westphalia. Long management cycles, clear business succession and straightforward decision taking count amongst its basic features.
An active company culture and social responsibility demonstrated towards our employees, customers and society, which goes far beyond legal and contractual requirements, contribute towards the motivation and long-term loyalty of the people who work for and with Haver & Boecker.
In a combination of these factors, security is created during the ups and the downs of the economy and history.
LIGHTING AND A WARNING FOR THE "MINERS"
How a discovery founded a whole new branch of industry
In 1815, the chemist Sir Humphry Davy developed a miner's safety lamp with a cylinder made out of woven wire cloth.
Its successful use in mining created a great demand for the wire mesh and was the foundation for the upswing of the wire weaving industry.
Any methane gases present could pass through the wire mesh cylinder to the open flame without exploding, as occurred with previously used lamps. The presence of “firedamp“ could be detected on the flame which immediately became brighter and warned the miners about the danger. These miner's lamps were not really lamps, but rather a measuring instrument.
1ST GENERATION ( 1887 – 1912) FOUNDING
Carl Haver and Eduard Boecker founded the company in Hohenlimburg and began with products made out of woven wire cloth. Mechanisation of wire weaving looms: initially 12 weaving looms 1897: Moving the headquarter to Oelde: The employee numbers grew rapidly. Training since 1905.
Expansion of the product programme :
- 250 mesh wire mesh with 10,000 meshes per cm²
- A bag closure made out of wire for open paper bags in the cement industry
2ND GENERATION (1913 – 1937)
Expansion of the product range and market development: Internationalisation was introduced after the first contact with foreign countries and export began.
- Self-built mechanical looms and purchase of licenses for loom building, packaging machines, screening machines (NIAGARA)
- 1925: Founding of the Machinery Division and production of the first HAVER valve bag packaging machine
- HAVER metal mesh for precision screen printing
- Manufacture of test sieves
- 1930: first NIAGARA® vibrating screening machine
2ND AND 3RD GENERATION( 1938 – 1962)
The focus was on high performance products : The company’s own development and manufacture of high performance products and machines gathered speed.
- Standardisation of wire mesh and test sieves
- 1940: Setting up of our own training workshop
- Manufacture of the finest wire mesh in the world: 540 mesh with 45,000 meshes per cm²
- MINIMESH® Metal-Filter-Cloth for the aerospace industry
- Electromagnetically driven test sieve shakers, EML 200
- 1. BBV turbine packer with a pre-compacting device for filling cement
- 1. HAVER ROTO-PACKER®, a rotating high-performance packaging system
3RD GENERATION( 1963 – 1987)
Stabilisation and globalisation : The further development of machines to be built gave further impetus to the expansion of our company.
- Founding of subsidiaries, world-wide
- Build-up of global exports in the area of plant engineering
- Conversion of the fine weaving mill to automatic looms
- 1980: Delivery of 5,000 square metres of the stainless steel wire mesh DOKAWELL for the aviary at the Zoo Hellabrunn near Munich.
STORES
HAVER & BOECKER OHG
Address : Ennigerloher Straße 64 59302 Oelde
Telephone : +49 (0) 2522 30-0
Email : [email protected]
HAVER & BOECKER OHG
Address : Carl-Haver-Platz 3 59302 Oelde
Telephone : +49 2522 30-0
Email : [email protected]
