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Three customer visits on a sunny autumn day

agoertz | 24. October 2024

The next day of the tour got off to a sunny start in the heart of Germany, more precisely in the city centre of Erfurt. On the bike today: our technical sales consultant Kevin Buettner. 

The first destination: the Rockinger company. Rockinger Agriculture GmbH has been developing towbars for lorries and trailer components since 1985. The igus high-performance plastics have a particularly sustainable application here. Together with igus, Rockinger has developed a ball coupling with a wear insert that requires no lubrication and therefore requires less maintenance. The application is used, for example, in balers, loader wagons, manure spreaders, tippers or crop sprayers. 

Merchant´s Bridge in Erfurt
Merchant´s Bridge in Erfurt
Merchant´s Bridge in Erfurt
Our visit at Rockinger
Our visit at Rockinger
Our visit at Rockinger
A closer look at the bike
A closer look at the bike
A closer look at the bike

The tour continued along beautiful meadows to Bad Tabaarz, 10 kilometres away. This is where the KRUMBEIN rationell GmbH & Co.KG company is based. Anyone thinking of Harry Potter and Hermione’s cat of the same name is wrong. The company specialises in manufacturing machines for bakeries and patisseries. A high level of hygiene and fail-safe components are the be-all and end-all here. This is why Krumbein relies on lubrication-free igus plain bearings and linear guides.  

igus:bike at KRUMBEIN
igus:bike at KRUMBEIN
igus:bike at KRUMBEIN
Little igus:bike as a gift
Little igus:bike as a gift
Little igus:bike as a gift
igus products in KRUMBEIN machines
igus products in KRUMBEIN machines
igus products in KRUMBEIN machines

After a light lunch, the journey continued. With additional igus support from our energy chain expert René Mönch, the next stop was L&K Land- und Kraftfahrzeugtechnik GmbH. The company is known in the construction machinery industry as a manufacturer of particularly durable equipment for excavators, wheel loaders, telescopic handlers and special vehicles. The buckets, backhoes and other tools are customised in numerous variants. Extremely wear-resistant Hardox steels and iglidur bearings ensure a long service life under adverse conditions and dynamic loads. 

igus meets L&K
igus meets L&K
igus meets L&K
Strong team
Strong team
Strong team

Our rider: Kevin Büttner

I’m Kevin Büttner, 42 years old and I come from Schlöben, a small village near Jena. I worked as a sales representative until the end of 2023 and have been working as a project manager at dryve since January 2024. I think the idea of bringing plastics from the sea into motion is great, this innovation could be prescribed by more states to find a solution for disused fishing nets, “circular economy with igus”. Looking forward to testing the bike on my part of the tour! 

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