 |  | | The ABEL Group
ABEL GmbH & Co.KG was established in 1947 in Düsseldorf, Germany, by Wilhelm Abel as an engineering firm. Purpose of the business was the manufacture and sale of pumps for the mining industry. Over the years other products were added and the company became a worldwide supplier of membrane, solids handling, high pressure, and marine pumps. The ABEL Group Structure
The group consists of several companies and 130 employees worldwide. |
 | | | Administration and production plant: | Büchen, Germany | Sales and Service Companies: | Pittsburgh, USA | | Madrid, Spain |
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 | | | The ABEL Products | | | Membrane and Piston Pumps | 0,5 to 400 m³/h and 25,0 MPa 3 to 1761 US GPM and 3625 PSI | Electromechanical Membrane Pumps | 0,5 to 120 m³/h and 0,8 MPa 3 to 530 US GPM and 125 PSI | Solids Handling Pumps | 1,0 to 103 m³/h and 16,0 MPa 4 to 455 US GPM and 2320 PSI | High Pressure Plunger Pumps | 1,0 to 115 m³/h and 25,0 MPa 4 to 506 US GPM and 3625 PSI | Marine Pumps | 1,0 to 50 m³/h 4 to 220 US GPM |
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 | |  | | The major markets include the environmental, the chemical, the petrochemical, the mining, the ceramics, the food and beverage, the pharmazeutical, the power plant, the microbiology and the marine industries.
Typical applications are the hydraulic transfer of solids over long distances, the feeding of filter-presses, dryers, and incinerators, and the transfer of shear sensitive, abrasive and corrosive fluids, the transfer of viscous foods, beverage concentrates and other shear sensitive media. Marketing and Service
ABEL products are sold and marketed by directly employed and trained ABEL Sales and Service Engineers located in various areas. ABEL Companies, ABEL Representatives and Distributors provide customer support in most industrialized countries. | |  | |
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The DIN EN ISO 9001 Quality Mangement Standard has been adopted by Abel in 1991. To maintain the ISO certification Abel is audited annually.
The Quality Mangagement Standard DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 was renewed in 12/2003 for another three year period by the independent classification agency "Germanischer Lloyd".
Production Facilities
The Büchen Plant covers approximately 30.000 m², with a factory area of about 8.000 m², and sales and administrative offices of 4.000 m² producing 1.000 pumps per year.
A modern fully integrated computer system consisting of a central Unix server, terminals, personal computers, and 2D/3D CAD workstations is being utilized to support all business functions from proposals, order entry, production planning, purchasing, invoicing, and controlling to computer aided design.
All products are individually tested on production test facilities. Research and development tests are performed on separate test stands. Nondestructive and destructive material testing are being performed regularly.
The factory has been continuously modernized and includes vertical and horizontal DNC machining centers, DNC lathes, conventional machines, cylindrical surface grinders, gear cutters, as well as degreasing, blasting, cleaning and painting | | | Overview: | | | | The sales performance of te ABEL Group is reported in aconsoliatedstatement under the www.roperind.com website of the parent company, Roper Industries. | | | ABEL GmbH & Co. KG Abel Twiete 1 D-21514 Büchen Germany Telephone: +49 4155 818-0 Telefax::+49 4155 818 499 e-mail:mail@abel.de Internet:http://www.abel.de President: Christian Behrens Rechtsform Gmbh & Co. KG, Sitz Büchen Reg.-Ger.: Lübeck HRA 355 SB Komplementär: ABEL Pumpen GmbH Reg.-Ger.: Mannheim HRB 558 T VAT: DE 135334 765 | |
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