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Test on real material.
Every recommendation begins with the customer's own sample, not a datasheet.
Company · Hardheim since 1863
A family
house of
engineers.
Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich sits on the same site in Hardheim where Gustav Eirich opened his workshop more than a hundred and sixty years ago. The patented counter motion of pan and tool was conceived here, refined here, and is still built here.
Hardheim works
49.610 N / 9.477 E
Chronicle
Six events,
one site.
A short reading of the company. Each entry is a working machine, not a press release.
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1863
Gustav Eirich founds the workshop in Hardheim, in the Odenwald.
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1903
First counter current intensive mixer principle, the patent that still defines the company.
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1950s
Plant engineering arm formed. First full material preparation lines delivered.
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1970s
International network built out. Service offices opened across Europe and Asia.
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2000s
Digital monitoring with Teleservice and ProView. QualiMaster quality systems launched.
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2026
Mixers from 0.1 litre laboratory units to 12,000 litre production pans, running in fifteen industries worldwide.
Maxims
Four sentences
we operate by.
02
Scale is not a recipe.
A 12,000 litre batch is the same principle as a 0.1 litre trial. The principle does the work.
03
Precision before speed.
Numbers carefully set. Cycles tuned in joules. Operator to operator.
04
Stay in Hardheim.
Engineering, manufacturing and the Technikum remain on one site in the Odenwald.
By the number
A house at
six numbers.
Nothing here is decorative. Each figure carries a machine, a recipe or a customer behind it.
Number 01
1863
Founded in Hardheim
Number 02
6
Languages spoken
Number 03
70+
Years of plant engineering
Number 04
12,000 L
Largest machine
Number 05
0.1 L
Smallest machine
Number 06
15
Industries served
Correspondence