Start About company AG-BAG technologies Equipment AG-BAG Academy Preservative Transport technology Contacts Feedback At the end of 1968, for the first time in the world, Eberhardt engineers from Ulm, Germany, under the direction of Dr. Eggenmüller, presented a drawing that was to become the basis for a forage canning machine. The Eberhardt idea - to create a silo compactor - was born. Already in 1970, the first press compactor of the 401 brand was put into operation. But what is a silage press compactor without a sleeve for silage? Soon, Eberhardt chose Schleier-Polidress (later BP Chemicals, now RKW), the leading plastic film for the agricultural sector, to develop its idea further. In the strictest secrecy, in 1969, in Ulm, the first interviews were held with Mr. Mollenkopf of Polydress. The first experiments were carried out with greenhouse film and wood chips glued on the ground due to lack of material. The first white plastic sleeve was made in 1970. The rolls were unwound and straightened by hand, with great difficulty they were put on the machine. In the messages of those years, you can find the same arguments justifying the success of this technology as today. Then they were brought by scientists from Hohenheim (Birnkammer) and Weihenstephan (Dr. Pirkelmann, Dr. Schultz). Feedback from practitioners was also promising. An excerpt from the Eberhardt brochure reads: "The newly developed silo compactor guarantees a high quality compaction silo and replaces silos and trenches." Such headlines could be found in the special press in Austria and Switzerland. But already at the end of the 70s the time of the Eberhardt compactor passed, the production was suspended. Are you wrong? The benefits weren't that great? Have the accompanying problems pulled the scales? Why step back? Contemporaries report technical and technological problems, too modest achievements, problems with the film and the removal of silage forage. The predominance of small farms in West Germany also played a decisive role. This idea was not further developed in Germany. In the mid-1970s, North American livestock breeder Leo Fish imported, as the Silopress brochure of the time says, "hundreds of these workhorses to the United States and Canada." It was the heyday of the expensive Harvestore silos, and this is where this flexible "low cost" system came along. The starting point was the 1974 fair in Toronto, Canada, at which Eberhardt Export Officer Leo Obernally introduced the first silo compactor to the American market. This is how the farmers Lemuel Cunningham (Florida), Larry Inman (Washington), Richard Lee (Oregon), and David Rasmussen (Nebraska), who later became the founders of AG BAG, met. They wanted to develop a still imperfect technology and in January 1978 founded the AG BAG Corporation in Omaha (Nabraska state). Not being mechanical engineers themselves, they commissioned Kelly Ryan in Blair, Nebraska in 1978 to carry out their idea to build the first American silo compactor. Непростым делом оказалось усовершенствование плёнки. Поначалу многие рукава рвались. Рукавов, сложенных машиной, не было. Только в 1979 году Уолтер Джей и Дэвид Расмуссен разработали первую в мире машину, складывающую плёночные рукава. После первых успехов появились и другие желающие освоить этот растущий рынок. Некоторые покинули фирму АГ БАГ и строили такие же машины, другие разработали собственные. С 1982 года выпускаются машины с собственным мотором. Сотрудничество фирм АГ БАГ и Будисса в г.Баутцен (Саксония) началась случайно. Англичанин Марк Адамс, посещая восточно-германские сельскохозяйственные предприятия, встречает в июле 1993 г. Удо Вебера. В том же году в Саксонии с помощью арендованной в Англии машины силосуют в рукавах 15000 тонн кукурузы и прессованного жома. Крюгер, Вебер, Йокуш, Хессе, Кальц, А. Мюллер, д-р Вольф д-р Штайнхёфель - вот имена пионеров фирмы АГ БАГ в Германии. Первые покупатели машин появились в 1994 году, а уже в следующем 1995 году силосовали в рукавах более 100 000 тонн прессованного жома. В последующие годы технология АГ БАГ успешное применение в более чем18 европейских странах. Уже с 1997 года рукава АГ БАГ и с 1998 г.машины АГ БАГ производятся в Германии. В 2002 году компания АГ БАГ вышла и на российский рынок. © 2004 Ag-Bag International Все права защищены.