In discussion: Bert van Elten, Eltomation

摘要

Global Cement (GC): Can you introduce Eltomation to our readers? Bert van Elten (BvE): The story of Eltomation began when my father, Gerry van Elten, was a mechanical engineering student in the late 1950s. He was asked to solve a problem at a wood wool cement board (WWCB) plant, which was a fully manual process at that time. He went away and thought, 'How do I automate this process?' From there, he designed the first elements of a plant that could automate the process of manufacturing WWCB products. He founded the Elten Engineering Company, now called Eltomation, in 1956 to produce fully automated WWCB lines.