Half a century of intensive work lies behind. We can look at the result with pride and satisfaction. The modest start with six employees evolved into an international company group with almost 800 people working for our joint success at 13 locations.

For five decades our thoughts and activities have focused on conveying, bagging, packing and loading, mainly of bulk materials. We have built ourselves a great reputation in many countries around the world and made crucial contributions to the state of the art in our specialized field.

Our thanks are due to all those who have helped create what the Möllers Group represents today - our employees and our clients as well as all those who, with their supplies of goods and services, have made it possible for us to carry out our work.

Our companies are healthy and stand on a solid foundation; the knowledge, creative ability and drive of the workforce mean that there are excellent prospects for continued success.

The right step at the right time
1952	On 21st June E. Möllers KG is entered in the commercial register of the Beckum County Court as a machinery manufacturer. The manufacturing range of the company comprises conveying and loading plants.
1953	Richard Birkenfeld takes over the company and extends the range to include machines for the
	building materials, sand and gravel industries. More staff are employed in addition to the original six.
1956	Close connections with the cement industry reveal a wide area of need: in many plants bagged cement is still loaded onto trucks and into wagons with bag trolleys. Möllers starts to develop bag loading machines - a decision which wilI affect the entire history of the company.
1958	The foundations of the original building of the later Möllers Group are laid on a 5.000 m2 plot acquired in Sudhoferweg in Beckum with the option to purchase more.
1959	The first order for large conveying systems comes to the works, which now has 80 employees.
1960	The challenge of "efficient bag packaging" is taken up comprehensively: Möllers extends the product range to cover automatic bag Palletizers and selIs the first machines in the same year.
1962	First large order for 15 bag palletizing systems came from the chemical industry in the Soviet Union.

Good ideas pay for themeselves
1963	First large bag loading systems with platform carriages for continuous loading of complete goods trains are supplied. Möllers machines have now also found numerous purchasers abroad; exports account for 48 % of production this year.
1965	Rapidly growing business volume makes expansion necessary. The works is expanded to a working area of 15.000 m2.
1968	Automatic bag palletizing has become recognized in the industry
	as a decisive instrument for rationalization. There is brisk growth in the demand for Palletizers and with it the demand for efficient methods for securing palletized loads for transport – development of pallet shrink-wrapping technology begins at Möllers.
1969	Cost–effective distribution of bulk products requires large automated loading plants – the planning and construction of cement loading terminals emerges as a new Möllers business sector. Möllers presents an automatic palletizing line with pallet shrink-wrapping system using the dropping film principle at the Interpack in Düsseldorf.
1970	Continued sales success in South America leads to the formation of the subsidiary Möllers Sulamericana in Sao Paulo/Brazil with its own production facilities.
1972	Over 300 employees in Beckum and 300 in Sao Paulo need more space: 6.000 m2 new production area at Sudhoferweg. Purchase of a 4 hectare works area in Brazil. First Möllers tubular film wrapping system for palletized loads at the Interpack in Düsseldorf.

Technology and innovation policy
1973	A new bulk cement terminal with one-man operation which Möllers built in the immediate vicinity of the works loads 1.200 t cement per hour. At the Achema in Frankfurt/Main Möllers exhibits the precursor of the palletless despatch unit using the reverse hood shrinkwrapping system.
1974	Extensive orders for palletizing plants from the North American industry leads to the Möllers Corporation of America in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1975	Large order from Moscow: Maschinoimport places orders worth 13.5 Million DM for automatic bag Palletizers and bag loading machines – the highest point so far in the business developed steadfastly with the USSR.
1976	The palletless despatch unit is ready to go into production: first shrinkpackaging plant using the patented Möllers reverse hood shrinkwrapping system in an Italian cement works.
1977	The fully automatic Möllers autoloader is developed; first plants are delivered.
1978	32 Million DM, the largest single order since foundation: Palletless packaging lines, loading and transport systems are supplied to Russia.
1980	Subsidiaries founded in England and France, supply range extended by a stake in Greif-Werk of Lübeck, specialists in weighing, and metering and bagging technology.

Everything on the move
1981	A highlight at the Interpack in Düsseldorf: the Romeo® from Möllers – one of the first robots on the market specifically for palletizing, de-palletizing and orderpicking.
1983	The Möllers impeller rotary packer with horizontal impeller for filling valve bags extends the business activities of Möllers stilI further.
1985	A great product anniversary for the reverse hood: the 100th plant for producing palletless despatch units is supplied ten years after the Möllers reverse hood shrinkwrapping system was introduced onto the market.
1987	Möllers offers a new, low-cost system for securing pallets in the form of the trailblazing stretch hooder process. It uses thin film which is flexible when cold, requires no heat energy and is environmentally friendly.
1989	Möllers North America Inc. expands to 14.000 m2 working area. In Beckum the 2.500th Möllers automatic Palletizer leaves the works.
1990	Expansion at the Beckum parent works to 30.000 m2 production area. The 2.000th shrinkwrapping plant is delivered.
1991	German companies are called to invest boldly in the new Russia. Möllers is one of the first: formation of the joint-venture company Möllers Intertec, Moscow.
1992	The Möllers Group extends its sphere of competence in the business sector of metering, bagging and high-efficiency weighing technology by a stake in the new Librawerk GmbH in Braunschweig.

Commitment to the future
1993	Development of the multi-purpose compact line for shrinkwrapping or stretchwrapping palletized loads or producing palletless despatch units as required.
1994	Möllers develops the Producat® intelligent process control and visual display system with remote diagnostic function for bagging and packaging plants.
1995	Expanding market in Asia: Möllers is there at the right time with the opening of the Hong Kong office. Development of the 16-spout high-tech rotary impeller packer and the high-performance automatic bag applicator.
1996	Möllers shows the flag in eastern Europe: the Romanian office is set up in Bucharest. Expansion of the sales offices in the Czech Republic and Poland. In Beckum the construction
	work for Works 2 starts on the 50.000 m2 of newly acquired land.
1998	Renewed plant expansion in the USA: expanded to give an office and operating area of 22.000 m2. Production area at Beckum extended by 5.000 m2.
1999	Development of the High–Expander automatic stretch hooder which uses considerable less film. The takeover of Logdos GmbH extends the sphere of competence of the Möllers Group to include filling technology for liquid products.
2000	New markets are opened up: the Möllers Mega-stretch technology for large-volume despatch units is developed, first plants are delivered.
2002	After 50 years Möllers is still expanding: Natronag from Salzgitter, the traditional manufacturer of filling plants, is taken over by Librawerk GmbH. Large orders from the chemical industry confirm the successful strategy of the Möllers Group.
2003	The narrow business relations based with the former Soviet economy are again and again followed by orders from the member countries of today's CIS. For a new 3000 t/d cement works in Turkmenistan Möllers is commissioned with the  delivery of the complete packaging and shipping plant
2004	The Petronas Group from Malaysia decided for Möllers as a system supplier for complete bag filling and palletizing lines: In the largest mineral fertilizer works of Southeast Asia 4.000 bags/h are on three lines simultaneously filled, palletized and automatically stored in a central warehouse.
2005	On the basis of the successful transverse stretch technology the automatic transverse stretch hooder at HSA Vario is developed. Including the new extremely stretchable Ultrastretch film, the machine can process all of the stretch film types used till now. It can save up to 30 % film, stretches all common pallet formats with only one film tube dimension and is capable of stretching up to 150 pallets/h. Once more the Möllers market leadership in the area of palletless shrink packaging is given proof: Cost savings and the efficient dispatch good handling arrange the Malaysian YTL-Cement group to decide, the first time in Southeast Asia, for a fully automatic Palletless Shrink Packaging Line from Möllers. The revers shrink hood technology pointing the way offers competitive advantages to the customers of the cement works and becomes thus a more and more important marketing tool for the cement manufacturers in view of the hard competition.
2006	Excellent quality, reliability and latest technologies have strengthened the leading position of Möllers for years. Particularly in the strongly expanding Asian and Arabian markets Möllers have improved their market leadership and record  new peak values in the incoming order (spring).

Möllers tomorrow

The future of the Möllers Group will be determined by challenges - just as it was in the past.
For tomorrow, like yesterday, it will be crucial for the success of medium-sized companies that they have a flexible approach to the growth of their sales markets and achieve competitive advantages with their own product developments while limiting the associated cost risks. In the same way, the client relationships which have been cultivated intensively through a worldwide sales network will continue to be one of the reasons for the uninterrupted success of the Möllers Group. Early investment, especially on the personnel side, in the use of new technologies will remain crucially important as another component of success.

However, the future of a company will always lie in the hands of the young people who follow their successful predecessors. As in the past, the provision of first-class training will continue to be one of our main concerns.