Heavy clay

Thinking the future with KELLER - Today, plants and machinery built by Keller run around the clock all over the world. Active in various manufacturing sectors, our products ensure consistently high production quality and efficiency. We promote innovation and new developments and consider environmental protection in all our business activities. In this way, we ensure that we optimally meet the high demands that we place on ourselves as well as those placed on us by our customers. With almost 130 years of experience in machinery and plant construction, we look back on our success in the ICS - Intelligent Clay Solutions business division and qualify ourselves as one of the most renowned and leading machinery and plant manufacturers for the international ceramics industry. The core competence of the ICS (Intelligent Clay Solutions) business division lies in the production of machines and complete plants, complex industrial robots, handling solutions, intelligent automation solutions and technologies for environmental protection, which can be found in the brick and tile industry worldwide. Currently, complex industrial robot applications for industrial sectors, flexible machine solution concepts, continuous and integrated process and automation technology, energy-efficient drying and firing processes, and the latest process steps in complete plants are the technological standard in the ICS - Intelligent Clay Solutions area.

Our core competencies are:

• modular application solutions
• technological advancements
• complex industrial robot applications
• innovative machine solution concepts
• consistent and integrated process and automation technology

Everything from a single source - Almost 130 years of experience in machine and plant construction: KELLER lives innovation, born out of tradition. Many developments and inventions that are now industry standards have their origins in KELLER's design department. These include highly complex industrial robots for modern brick plants, comprehensive and integrated automation solutions, as well as measures and technologies for environmental protection.

In demand worldwide - KELLER ICS's machines and plants are present in numerous facilities around the world,  with a focus on machines and plants for the heavy clay industry. For consumers, KELLER products stand out for their state-of-the-art technology. The modular design is particularly popular, making it possible to act quickly and easily in a modular system.

Bricks with integrated insulation - Intelligent technology as a response to the complex variety of sizes for bricks with integrated insulation: KELLER ICS offers a solution for the increasing demand for energy-efficient vertical coring lightweight bricks. The corresponding plant technology is also developed by KELLER itself.

Dryers and kilns - Dryers and kilns required for the production of the bricks operate under particularly economical aspects.

Intelligent technology - KELLER ICS develops and implements individual robot solutions.  Robots from KELLER have been used in the heavy clay industry since the mid-1990s. Since then, more than 800 robots have been installed in various projects.