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  • Haver Roto Packer - a 50-year success story

    These days everything at Haver & Boecker in Oelde, Germany, is all about the Haver Roto-Packer - the company's packing machine for filling building material products, cement and other free-flowing powder type materials. Haver recently celebrated the 50-year history of the system that got its start with an order from Phoenix Zementwerke in Beckum, Germany.