Made by Blickle

Your requirement is our challenge. We constantly develop new creative solutions. Our specialised expert teams are made up of experienced designers who know how to create perfect products to meet customer requirements.
Our developers use the latest methods, including linear and non-linear FEM, and keep close relationships with established institutions to keep our ideas moving and to realise new possibilities. In addition to meeting real-world technological requirements, we also carry out basic research to optimise the materials that we use in our wheels and to develop driven wheels.

You can expect outstanding reliability from every area of Blickle. Our cutting-edge logistics center guarantees top-quality deliveries: We have more than 8,000 different products ready to ship within one day, with another 12,000 ready to ship within one or two days across Europe.
60 to 70 metric tons of material leave our logistics center in Rosenfeld every day. Our 40 metre high fully automated high-rack warehouse has enough space for 43,400 Euro or cage pallets served by rack feeders. The neighbouring small parts warehouse has space for 54,000 more. This guarantees that materials get to our production facilities efficiently and that products are delivered to our customers quickly and reliably.

Leading the market means setting high standards. The Blickle way: manufacturing and developing everything from scratch. All of our tooling, mechanical engineering and steel processing is done in house.

Tooling and mechanical engineering

We develop and build tools, equipment and systems in house to meet any requirement with our highly-qualified employees and cutting-edge machinery. This benefits you significantly in a number of ways: we can adapt mass-produced products to meet customer requirements in a quick and cost efficient manner. Our in-house tooling guarantees that none of our tools see any downtime and keeps our product quality high.

Steel processing

Our high level of vertical integration gives us complete control over quality and delivery dates. It also allows us to react with speed and flexibility to customer and market requirements. Flexibility lies at the heart of our steel forming processes. Our comprehensive set of press equipment includes hydraulic and eccentric presses, some of which have servo drives, with a pressing force of up to 630 metric tons. Our equipment is capable of handling coils that are up to 12 mm thick in a fully automated process. Our presses are set up to manufacture casters. This allows us to efficiently manufacture large quantities while remaining flexible enough to produce small batches in a cost-effective manner.

Good connections guarantee a long service life. Precision is the most important part of an effective weld. By hand when needed and automated whenever possible. We achieve a consistently high level of work by ensuring that our welders and welding equipment meet demanding standards. Without precise weld seams, our heavy duty casters would not have the stability and safety on which our customers rely.

To produce high-quality polyurethane, you need the right formula and the proper processing techniques. That’s why we committed ourselves to becoming polyurethane specialists.

The quality of polyurethane wheels is affected by a number of different factors. We sandblast, clean and prime the metal wheel centers completely automatically. Computer-controlled machinery is used for the subsequent low pressure casting process. We then add precise quantities of additives like color pigments, activators or antistatic agents to suit requirements. This gives us the flexibility that we need to meet the precise requirements of our customers.

• PU wheels in all sizes, from 25 to 1,000 mm in diameter.
• Comprehensive quality inspections.
• Tread and tire hardness from 75 to 96 Shore A.
• Special colors to meet customer requirements.

 

To stay ahead of the market, you need to be flexible. We are able to produce a wide range of synthetic wheels and casters, including heat-resistant, electrically conductive and glass fibre-reinforced versions.
We use a range of cutting-edge, high-performance machinery for the injection moulding process. Our linked systems allow us to manufacture multi-component wheels in a fully automated manner. Our extremely high-performance tooling technology allows us to optimise our cycle times while keeping our quality high.

We developed fully automatic, high-quality, cost-effective and efficient production lines to assemble our rigs and casters. Benefit from our flexibility: We frequently work on small batches by hand to meet our customers’ requirements. Almost 60,000 square metres of floor space is used to produce over 15 million casters and wheels a year, equivalent to more than 60,000 units per day. We integrate a large number of testing and inspection stations into our production lines to maintain our certified, high-quality standards.