Frutiger Company AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1957 |
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Winterthur Switzerland
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| management | Urs Frutiger |
| Number of employees | 150 |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.mobydick.com |
Frutiger Company AG (spelling FRUTIGER Company AG) is a Swiss mechanical engineering company with headquarters in Winterthur . The company manufactures tire washing systems for washing tires during slow passage (first in 1998), as well as scrapers . The slogan of the company is based on the product logo, the MobyDick Wal: "A whale, a promise."
history
The company was founded in 1957 by Edwin Frutiger in Winterthur, Switzerland. From 1994 the company was run in the second generation by the brothers Urs and Jürg Frutiger and the company was renamed “Frutiger Baumaschinen & Co”. The development, production and sales of the MobyDick tire washing systems and the Tiger scrapers are seen as the basis for growth. In the years that followed, the Frutiger Group expanded internationally to include its own companies and sales offices. In 2008, “Frutiger Baumaschinen & Co” was renamed “Frutiger Company AG” and since then, like the entire Frutiger Group, has been under the management of Urs Frutiger.
Business areas
Wheel Washing Systems
The MobyDick brand tire washing systems have been part of the product range since 1986 and, according to the company, have been installed over 3500 times worldwide. With these systems, vehicle tires and chassis are cleaned so as not to pollute public roads. An estimated 4.9 million (as of 2011) tons of dirt were kept away from public roads by the MobyDick tire washing systems.
Coarse dirt washing systems (demucking)
Coarse dirt washing systems have been on the market for several years and remove stubborn dirt from wheeled and tracked vehicles, which make maintenance inspections difficult or endanger the drive systems due to overheating.
Systems for dust binding (Dust Control)
The product portfolio of the dust binding machine consists of systems that use a medium or high pressure pump (from 20 bar) and nozzles to generate a constant water mist with a large number of tiny water droplets.
Scrapers (scrapedozer)
Another business area is the production and marketing of scrapers . It is a versatile construction machine with the help of which soil can be removed, transported and unloaded elsewhere or reinstalled. They are used, for example, for moving earth on construction sites or in open-cast mining.
Frutiger originally imported scrapers from Japan, which were manufactured there on the basis of a license agreement with Menck & Hambrock . Frutiger's first in-house development was the SR3000 Tiger with a 15 cubic meter bucket volume and 480 hp. In 2007 Frutiger brought the successor model SR T-18 Tiger onto the market. This largest scraper ever built has a bucket volume of 18 m³, is 7.2 m long, 3.50 m wide, 3.4 m high and weighs around 38 t (empty weight). Your bucket has a scraping width of 1.92 m and the output is between 200 m³ / h to 450 m³ / h, depending on the model used, at a transport distance of about 100 m.
Frutiger is currently (as of December 2019) the only remaining manufacturer of scrapers.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MobyDick Quick 400/667/939 tire washing system ( Memento from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (product page )
- ↑ Frutiger advocates the use of scrapers. Trade journal STEINE + ERDEN, issue 5/10
- ↑ 4.9 million tons less dirt on the roads worldwide. Maschinen & Technik, March 2011 p. 71 ( online version via web reader )
- ↑ Max Scholz: Yearbook Construction Machines 2019. Podszun-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86133-894-9 , page 105 ff.
- ↑ Technical data SR T-18 Tiger , accessed on December 28, 2019.