INDUSTRIAL VACUUMING AND DEDUSTING SOLUTIONS

FAST. SAFE. CLEAN

The metal processing industry, which encompasses metallurgy, machine design and automotive engineering, is a core industry with incredibly sophisticated procedures. Metal processing generates huge quantities of abrasive swarf mixed with cooling lubricants. Cleaning workpieces and machine tools, often during ongoing operation, is an important task that has a significant impact on cost efficiency. Our industrial suction solutions provide optimum process reliability and quality assurance.

Use:

• Industrial vacuum cleaners can absorb swarf and fluids from all machining processes that generate swarf, such as milling, turning, drilling, grinding, deburring and brushing
• Stationary vacuuming of machining equipment with continuous removal of swarf and dust

Challenge:

• Contamination of machining equipment due to (sharp) swarf, grinding dust, paint grinding dust, slag, combustible dust, cooling lubricant and emulsions
• Separating swarf and emulsions

Benefits:

• Keep production processes clean and minimise downtime
• Reduce downtime for machining equipment
• Increase production accuracy
• Increase reliability of work and processes
• Separate swarf and liquids
• Long-lasting, robust solutions
• Continuous operation and fast cleaning times thanks to high suction power

WORK HYGIENICALLY – CLEAN ECONOMICALLY

Clean production processes, guaranteed quality, optimum hygiene, and the prevention of contamination are key success factors in the food processing. This generates large quantities of fine, explosive types of dust.

Use:

• Vacuuming foodstuff dusts such as flour dust, vitamin powder, foodstuff powder, etc. either mobile or stationary and integrated in the production process

Challenge:

• Versatile vacuuming tasks and types of dirt: Foodstuff breakages, types of dust (potentially explosive, freely floating, adhesive, wet), fats, oils and egg whites, liquids
• Risk of dust explosions
• (Cross-)contamination, microbial contamination, altered taste, slip hazards

Benefits:

• Keep production processes clean and minimise downtime
• Vacuum potentially explosive types of dust with ATEX certification
• Long-lasting, reliable, compact solutions
• Cost-effective solutions
• Effective filters and filter cleaning

HEALTH IS KEY. IN EVERY WAY.

The pharmaceutical industry must continuously meet extremely strict quality and hygiene standards in a variety of product ranges. At the same time, production processes must run as efficiently as possible. Our suction and dust extraction solutions achieve these goals on any industrial scale.

Use:

• Vacuuming residue from tablets, active agents in medicines (vitamins, oestrogen)
• Vacuuming dust in production processes

Challenge:

• Fine dust that is hazardous to health
• Potentially explosive dust

Benefits:

• Keep production processes clean and minimise downtime using, for instance, integrated
• suction in the production process
• Health protection and occupational safety
• Use vacuums in particularly delicate areas
• Safe vacuuming and disposal of hazardous and potentially explosive
• dust, among other materials, thanks to the vacuum's certification

PRODUCTIVITY AND CLEANLINESS: THE PERFECT COMBINATION.

The production and processing of rubber and plastics generate fine and coarse particles that pose a danger to health. These substances may be present in large quantities during transport and maintenance work.

Use:

• Cleaning machines and workplaces, in particular vacuuming and absorbing granulates, plastic swarf and dust, (aggressive) chemical mixtures, fertiliser, paint powder, water, detergent
• Vacuuming dust from production processes (e.g. dust generated during granulate dosing)

Challenge:

• Dusts that are hazardous to health and the environment
• Contamination of products

Benefits:

• Keep production processes clean and minimise downtime
• Guarantee occupational safety and work efficiency
• Vacuum potentially explosive types of dust with ATEX certification
• Contamination-free emptying

GET YOUR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OFF TO A CLEAN START.

Use:

• Vacuuming minerals of all kinds (concrete dust, cement dust), coarse eroded particles, pebbles, sand
• Transporting the vacuum to construction sites and flexible use there

Challenge:

• Dust as a long-term danger to health
• Large eroded material as an occupational safety hazard

Benefits:

• Increase quality of work
• Health protection and occupational safety
• Direct suction while the tool is in use thanks to electrical tool connection on the vacuum cleaner
• Manoeuvrable, mobile machines
• Long-lasting, robust machines

WHEREVER SAWING, PLANING AND SANDING IS PERFORMED

In the wood and furniture industry, sawdust, swarf and sanding dust post a continuous, serious risk to health. What's more, these substances can be easily ignited or even explosive. The use of our specialised suction systems enables you to reliably prevent dust and swarf from collecting and becoming a hazard in the workplace.

Use:

• Maintenance cleaning and machine cleaning
• Industrial vacuum cleaners remove swarf and dust on milling machines, sanding machines, saws, hand, tools, etc. and provide continuous suction.

Challenge:

• Easily flammable to highly explosive dust
• Dust that is hazardous to health
• Frequent large quantities of dust

Benefits:

• Health protection and occupational safety

SAFE INDUSTRIAL STONE AND GLASS PRODUCTION

Extremely fine, sharp and abrasive suction waste is generated when processing stone and glass. This challenge is no match for our industrial suction solutions.

Use:

• Machine cleaning, sometimes with large amounts of fluid
• Vacuuming cement dust on conveyor belts, filling funnels, filling equipment, etc.

Challenge:

• Large quantities of dust
• Sharp material to be vacuumed
• Large quantities of cooling water

Benefits:

• Guarantee quality and operational processes

TEXTILE MANUFACTURING WITHOUT THE FUZZ

Removing waste material generated during production in the textile industry involves unique challenges. Fibres and fluff that are vacuumed away tend to clump together and can shut down production by blocking filters, hoses and pipelines. Our tailor-made solutions ensure that your production processes continue to run seamlessly.

Use:

• Vacuuming fluff and fibres of any size and any amount

Challenge:

• Textile fibres adhere to and block the filter
• Textile fibres form balls in hoses and pipelines, thereby blocking them

Benefits:

• Keep production processes clean and minimise downtime
• Continuously high suction power
• Long-lasting, reliable, compact, cost-effective solutions

100% DUST-FREE PRODUCTION.

In the electronics industry and in optics, production processes generate extremely fine dust that is capable of damaging components and must be vacuumed away directly as the process runs. Our suction systems such as our industrial vacuum cleaner remove fine dust and help you to achieve these goals and protect your sophisticated production systems at the same time.

Use:

• Milling electrical components
• Polishing optical elements

Challenge:

• Highly abrasive dust
• Dust capable of destroying components

Benefits:

• Guarantee quality and operational processes

CLEAN PRODUCTION FROM PAPER TO PRINT

The production of printed media involves the use and creation of paper dust, paint powder, liquid colourants and toners. These substances, some of which are highly toxic, require high-performance industrial suction solutions – which we have been developing for the printing industry for decades.

Use:

• Vacuuming cellulose fibres during machine cleaning in the paper industry
• Vacuuming fine to coarse paper cuttings from cutting machines
• Cleaning printing machines
• Vacuuming paint powder

Challenge:

• Extremely fine, explosive dust
• Large paper cuttings

Benefits:

• Guarantee quality and operational processes
• Health and safety measure

At home in the Swabian mountains.

For 50 years, Kärcher (formerly Ringler) has been a renowned manufacturer of high-quality industrial suction solutions; the company is based in the Swabian region of Waldstetten, nestled in a group of mountains known as the "Dreikaiserberge", around 50 kilometres from Stuttgart. This is where we produce almost all our products. Our range encompasses everything from small, mobile industrial vacuums to stationary suction systems with pipeline structures, all the way to dedusting systems with individually designed collection units. 

Our industrial vacuum solution help us make the difference. They stand out thanks to their high-quality, long-lasting, technically sophisticated, robust design. 

7th July 1967: Bernhard Ringler establishes his own business – a contract production business for welded and turned parts – in rented premises.

1970: The company Ringler Apparatebau GmbH is founded by Bernhard Ringler with the aim of answering the question: How can we make cleaning swarf and emulsions off machine tools be made as efficient and safe as possible? The company intends to make the typical practice of sweeping away swarf a thing of the past.

1973: A breakthrough with the classic RI 300 swarf industrial vacuum cleaner: This combines the benefits of efficiently cleaning industrial environments, separating swarf from emulsions, returning the cooling emulsion to the machine, and a tipping mechanism to empty swarf. This invention, which was groundbreaking at the time, was a sales hit in Germany. The follow-up model to the RI 300 industrial vacuum is still a true classic in the industrial vacuum sector and remains popular to this day. Its steel construction, robust design and perfect handling are still the cornerstones of our solutions.

1976: Construction of the first production hall and warehouse
750 m² and additional office space. The company is exclusively a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners for the metal processing industry.

1982: Expansion of production and storage capacity by a further 600 m² and an additional 200 m² of office space

1995: The installation and shipping areas are expanded
Third construction phase
Construction of a new assembly hall, additional capacity for assembly/shipping, and an additional 600 m² testing station. New total of approx. 2200 m² of assembly, production and office space.

2003: Certification of the entire company according to ISO 9001, VDA 6.4

2010: Takeover by Alfred Kärcher
The company Alfred Kärcher SE & Co.KG takes over Ringler Apparatebau GmbH with effect from 1st September 2010

2012: Continued improvements in production depth – Made in Germany
The production facility is expanded to maintain and improve the company's depth of production. As part of this process, an additional production hall for steel frameworks and primary materials is purchased and put into operation. 

2013: Customer-oriented, flexible production thanks to the new paint shop
Using two state-of-the-art painting boxes, delivery times were drastically reduced, which made production significantly more customer-focussed and flexible. 

1st October 2013: Change of name to Ringler GmbH

2014: Expansion of office space due to international sales orientation
As part of the expansion of the company's international sales, an office building with training facilities and office space for sales and administration was opened. It also includes a showroom for products.

2017: A golden jubilee
The company celebrates its 50th year in business and looks back on its successful development into an innovative market leader for industrial suction solutions in Germany and Europe.

2020: Colour and brand redesign
As of 1st January 2020, the entire product portfolio is sold under the Kärcher brand name. With this initiative, Kärcher is reinforcing the uniform appearance of all products offered by the corporate group, as well as its strategic alignment, which keeps its customers in focus.

2022: Two heads are better than one – incorporating Ringler GmbH's renowned quality into Kärcher Industrial Vacuuming GmbH

With effect from 1st January 2022, the company is named Kärcher Industrial Vacuuming. Our commitment to quality continues to shape what we do every day.

Our goal: Continuously improving our environmental sustainability

The varied industrial suction solutions from Kärcher Industrial Vacuum GmbH make an important contribution to keeping production facilities clean, ensuring occupational safety, maintaining clean air and protecting the environment. Our products stand out thanks to their high-quality, long-lasting, technically sophisticated, robust and sustainable design. 

In this respect, we do everything we can to become more and more environmentally friendly with each unit generation. To do so, we attach great importance to reducing the environmental impact of the production of our products, as well as making a direct contribution to environmental protection at our customers' premises using our industrial suction solutions, for instance by collecting substances that are harmful to the environment.

Environmental protection from product development to disposal

When it comes to achieving sustainability, the journey is the destination. We have been following this future-oriented path for decades, setting an example in the industry. For instance, when developing new products, we embrace the concept of "life cycle thinking". This means that we start considering the entire product life cycle early in the planning phase. All sections of the product life cycle are analysed during development with a particular focus on environmental aspects and optimised wherever possible to ensure that it has as little impact on the environment as possible.

Raw material production: Our solutions are made using high-quality raw materials. Our commitment to quality and the associated long lifetimes of our solutions help us to protect the environment.

Parts production: When it comes to selecting our suppliers, too, we value their environmentally friendly procedures. We also look for suppliers who do not use harmful substances and who implement effective environmental management measures.

Production: We have already ensured that our production processes have little impact on the environment. Nevertheless, we remain committed to continuous improvement and make every effort to reduce our impact on the environment further using innovative processes. Processes of this kind include waste heat recover, water reclamation and solar power.

Distribution: Wherever possible, we use environmentally friendly methods of transport, such as railways. When distribution requires the use of trucks, we make every effort to ensure that we optimise loads and avoid indirect routes.

Contributing to environmental protection at our customers' premises: Our innovative solutions reduce dust and noise emissions from our customers' production facilities, ensuring that production runs cleanly and safely.

Repairs: Our products are also designed to make repairs as easy as possible. Our service centre guarantees expert repairs, wherever you are in the world.

Recycling and disposal: Old devices can be returned free of charge in accordance with European legislation. Since they are easy to dismantle and made of suitable materials, old devices can be recycled. What's more, our industrial vacuum solutions are, as a rule, 90% recyclable.