In the 1930s, the market demanded high-performance screening machines in motorway construction, coal mining, the chemical, quarrying and steel-producing industries.
It was again Fritz Haver – second-generation Managing Partner – who recognised the sign of the times and signed a contract with the American screening machine manufacturer Wettlaufer in the USA near the famous Niagara Falls in 1930. As with the construction of the packing machines, he regarded it as important to focus on quality and the technical market leadership of these designs right from the start. Screening machines have consequently been developed and built under the NIAGARA name – all synonymous with quality, robustness and performance.
The so-called NIA department at Maschinenfabrik Oelde developed splendidly. This was taken into account in 1991 with a separate location in Münster and a subsequent spin-off into the company’s own subsidiary HAVER NIAGARA GmbH. From the mid-1970s, the Brazilian subsidiary also built high-performance screening machines in addition to packing machines. The takeover of W.S. Tyler in Canada in 1998 provided additional impetus for screening machine technology.
Today, HAVER & BOECKER NIAGARA offers a wide range of screening machines and is particularly successful in the global mining industry. The world’s largest Richter exciter screening machines with a capacity of 15,000 tonnes/hour for the oil sands industry in Canada stand out.