“Agritechnica 2011 has impressively demonstrated the worldwide importance of agriculture and agricultural technology.
2.700 exhibitors, about 415.000 visitors, 100.000 of them coming from abroad have contributed to a new dimension.” This is what the chief executive of the organisation DLG (German agricultural association) Dr. Reinhard Granke told to the press in the end of the trade fair Agritechnica on 19th November 2011.
Our team of FRANZ KLEINE having been represented on the trade fair take positive stock of this event. The interest to our new harvesting and loading technologies was pronounced.
In the course of the next days we will start a demonstration tour for the new machines, models Beetliner Large and Beetliner Compact, to show you the machines` modes of operation.
Thank you very much for your visit on our stand, for your interest and all constructive conversations and we would be pleased about a further business contact with you.
An article which was published in the magazine „Farmers´Journal for Saxony” on 18 November 2011 informed
about the daily routine of an agricultural contractor during a sugar beet campaign.
Amongst others the work of the family-owned business Karsten Ullrich, Biorecycling GmbH, which is placed in Mühlberg (Thuringia), was described. The company is a long-time KLEINE-customer and makes use of our cleaning and loading machines; at the moment they work with the RL 350 V.
In the following you find an abridgment of the report:
….Apart from their main business, which is the transport of agricultural bulk goods and the manufacturing of quality compost, the loading and transport of sugar beets have been included in their service offer for about 20 years now. The loading with the KLEINE cleaning and loading machine is carried out together with a cooperation partner. Together with other carriers there are about 250.000 t beets loaded per campaign for the Südzucker AG in Western Thuringia. That means for both people and machines to ensure around the clock and 7 days a week that the sugar factories do not run out of beets.
…The “Mouse”, in fact called the KLEINE cleaning and loading machine RL 350 V, with its working width of 10 m makes it much easier to build clamps. “In the cone, once 8 m of width, now 10 m, there is space for about a third more beets”, says the driver named Mathias Rennebeck. “That reduces the length of the clamp as the headlands are often blockaded by trees.” The broad clamps also protect the beets much better from losses by storage.
…The machine’s driver Dominik Pirk accurately directs the lorries under the loading belt. Its range from the middle of the clamp to the middle of the lorry has a maximum length of 15 m.
The lorries hardly arrived and then they can be started again, because it only takes 5 minutes until Dominik Pirk has loaded the beets. While doing so he keeps an eye on the beets` weight with the help of an integrated belt weigher so the lorries will not be overloaded. Karsten Ullrich notes: “The driver of the loading machine can be called the brain of the loading company, as he coordinates the lorries and customers, he loads the beets and at the same time he organises the return of the beet cuttings into the region, because he receives the cuttings sheets from the sugar factory and distributes them to the drivers.”…
Source: BauernZeitung, edition of the 46th week 2011, pages 22 to 24
In collaboration with the ITB (Institut Technique pour la Betterave = Institute for technology around the beet) and the IRBAB Belgium
(Institut Royal Belge pour l`amélioration de la betterave = Royal institute for the improvement of the beet) a great demonstration of manufacturers for technique of sugar beet harvesting has been organized from 26 to 27 October 2011 in Chéry-lès-Pouilly (region Aisne/Northern France).
On both days, ten manufacturers from France, Belgium, Holland and Germany presented 15 sugar beet harvesters as well as 3 cleaning and loading machines.
With our team and with the cooperation of our business partner on-site – AMIS FRANCE, Mr. Bouffletz and his team - we have successfully shown our non-stop harvesting system SF 10-2 and LS 18-2 as well as the cleaning and loading machine RL 350 V. Especially the RL 350 V with clamp separator which we have presented on the field and concrete surface found favour with the visitors.
130 stands of different suppliers and organisations working in the sugar beet harvesting sector as well as professional committees rounded off the program.
All in all, 13 000 visitors came to the fair, in particular from France and Belgium.
With this, we would like to thank our customers who were so kind to loan their machines for the demonstration, and especially Mr. Morelle and his son who did an optimal driving performance during the demonstration.
This year, our local customer ZLG Warburg bought a new RL 350 V cleaning and transfer system.
On the occasion of a public presentation of the new machine on September 5th 2011 at farmer Johannes Reinecke's farm in Warburg-Hohenwepel, the press was present as well. In the “Warburger Kreisblatt” of September 6th, a half-page article was published titled “This Mouse eats sweet beets”. Here are some excerpts of the report:
“This Mouse is huge: 12,50 metres long, more than three metres high and weighing nearly 24 tons. We are talking about the new cleaning and loading machine of the “Zuckerrübenladegemeinschaft” (Association of Sugar Beet Loading) in Warburg. Since its foundation in 1999, this is already the fifth Mouse that the association buys. It will be employed during the coming sugar beet harvest within a radius of 20 kilometres around Warburg. The RL 350 V replaces its predecessor, a smaller RL 200 sugar beet Mouse which has been constantly working during the past six years from mid-September until Christmas on workdays from 5 o'clock in the morning until 9 pm – sometimes even in the night. This season, about 100.000 tons of sugar beets should be loaded by the Mouse. Its first employment will be on Friday, September 16th, at Josef Jacobi's organic farm in Körbecke. Four Mouse drivers will be in action this season. They have been trained by employees of the producer of agricultural machines for beet technique in Salzkotten.”
Young talent promotion and acquisition at Franz Kleine's
– Regularly, trainees from schools or universities get to breathe practical air inside our company. For example grammar-school pupil Axel Vorwald from Büren gained his insight into mechatronics by doing an internship. The pupil experienced exciting tasks in the fields of electrics and mechanics.
With a heartfelt thank you, the team heads of section said goodbye to Axel Vorwald.
During a journey to several companies for information and communication technology,
the North Rine-Westphalian Minister of Trade and Commerce Harry Voigtsberger also visited our local supplier, the company Müller-Elektronik. Müller-Elektronik develops intelligent electronic solutions for agricultural machines. On the photograph you can see Ludwig Bewermeier (City of Salzkotten), Carsten Jochheim (manager of Müller-Elektronik), Minister Harry Voigtsberger, Walter Flaig (North Rine-Westphalian state chancellery) and Monika Gatzke (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) in front of our cleaning and transfer system RL 350 V, which is, as our beet harvesters as well, equipped with terminals of the company Müller-Elektronik.
The photograph was kindly offered to us by Mr Jochheim.
From June 10 to 12 June 2011, the open air exhibition Opolagra
took place in Kamień Śląski near Opole (South West Poland). As the organizer DLG AgroFood announced, this year, 328 exhibitors had taken part in the leading agricultural exhibition in Poland - an increase of more than 40% compared with last year. The concept of the exhibition with information stands, machine demonstrations and an animal show proved to be successful and draw the interest of approximately 42.000 visitors (farmers and experts in rural economy) this year.
At the FRANZ KLEINE information stand, Piotr Zelek and Wojciech Zelek from KLEINE Polska as well as Daris Lamarz, sales collaborator from Salzkotten and responsible for sales in Poland and Latvia, presented a SF 10-2 used machine and raised curiosity in many conversations about the expected new KLEINE harvesting technique that will be brought on the market in November for the Agritechnika.
The next Opolagra takes place from 15 to 17 June 2012 in Kamień Śląski
From February 20th to February 24th, the Paris International Agri-Business Show,
short SIMA, took place in Paris. After the Agritechnica, this is the second largest trade fair for agricultural technology in the world.
The end result of the SIMA 2011 in figures:
1.300 exhibitors from 41 countries were presenting 1.550 trademarks,
209.800 visitors (25% of them from foreign countries) were informing themselves.
Even though with reference to the Agritechnica in November, we were presenting ourselves without a machine, our employees could establish many interesting trade fair contacts and prove our presence at the French business market.
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