Facts and figures

Employees:
200

Founding year:
1864

Annual capacity:
15.000 tons

Owner:
Gebr. Eickhoff Maschinenfabrik u. Eisengießerei GmbH

Materials:

  • ADI (up to EN-GJS-1400)
  • Cast iron (up to EN-GJL-350)
  • Ductile iron (up to EN-GJS-800-2)
  • Wear resistant cast iron (EN-GJN-HV..)
  • Austenitic cast iron with nodular graphite (EN-GJSA-XNi..)
  • Un- and low alloyed cast steel, tempering steel (i.e.: GS 42 CrMo 4 V)
  • Special materials on request

Melting plant:
4 medium-frequency induction furnaces with 5 t each
1 medium-frequency induction furnace with 1,5 t capacity

Focus:
Small series, medium-sized series, hand made castings (single part production)

Machine moulds:
Moulding box size 700 x 600 x 250/250 mm for item weights up to 100 kg

Moulding box size 1100 x 900 x 400/400 mm for item weights up to 250 kg

Hand moulds:
Hand made castings for moulding box sizes from 800 x 800 up to 4000 x 4000 mm for item weights from 200 up to 10000 kg

Measure and test:
All common test methods in the field of NDT such as ultrasonic testing, X-ray Inspection, crack testing (MT and PT) hardness test, dimensional tests

Follow-up treatment / machining:
Heat treatment: annealing, hardening, tempering
Surface treatment: intensive blasting, priming, endoscopy

Certification Companies:

  • Bureau Veritas
  • American Bureau of Shipping
  • Germanic Lloyd
  • Registro Italiano Navale
  • Det Norske Veritas
  • Lloyds Register of Shipping

Certification:
ISO 9001 since 1991,
ISO 50001 since 2012

Additional services or facilities:

  • Construction- and material consultancy
  • Pattern- and mould making
  • Finite element calculations
  • Solidification simulation
  • Mechanical machining

Customer areas:
We deliever to all economic and industrial sectors.