Our history is filled with a solid growth trajectory. Our success has been measured by our customers.

 

Paul Neu was an integral part of our early team. He was instrumental in setting up many of the very processes we use today.

Original address was located in a small office above a retail center in Stillwater, MN

 

 

HAF Equipment was founded in 1994 by Peter Hoefler in Stillwater, MN

 

 

  • 2008 Equity position in sister company Relco. This company specializes in Dryer technology and systems. Relco builds the industries most state of the art Permeate dryers and process. Relco expands into the Netherlands with the acquisition of Wet and Dry Technologies.
  • 2009 Equity position in Duraban. Leading the way in non poison bacteria mitigation- has EPA acceptance.
  • 2009 Sold Savel Tech to Relco.
Read more

  • 1994

    The company was originally run out of a one man office located on the upper story of a retail center in Stillwater, MN. With the help of Paul Neu, HAF grew from a small rep firm to a process systems manufacturer. As the company grew, we moved to larger offices within this building. We knew it was time to move when we started to take delivery of valves and other parts by rushing out to a truck double parked on mainstreet, pulling the delivery off the back of the truck and carrying them "upstairs".

  • 1995

    In 1995, while representing Savel Corp. the then owners approached us to purchase the company-and it was done. This meant rotary airlocks and divert valves would be assembled in Peter's garage at home. Casting and finished parts where picked up at a local distribution center and brought to my home on the back of a utility trailer. Valves where then assembled and finished and reloaded back onto this trailer. The whole family was involved when loading the trailer-all five of us would lift pallets manually.

  • Late 90's

    By the late 90's we had secured an industrial building complete with loading dock-all in Stillwater. Our first purchase for the new building was a pallet jack for unloading trucks. We had a small office in front and a large shop-warehouse in back.

    While we built high quality equipment, we soon found our products where just like every other companies in this industry. By the end of the 90's, it seemed there where more companies offering the same products we had-it became a race to the cheapest. Our experience and skills where not a match for the products we built. It was time to develop products that where uniquely our own and ones the reflected our capability.

     

  • 1999

    In 1999 we introduced our Moovinator line of equipment. This represented a departure from typical full size equipment-it was a product range that developed the new intermediate size process equipment. This was the start of the perfecting of our product line.

  • 2003

    By 2003 we began looking for our own building. In 2004 we found a new never used industrial "shell" building. While in our leased space, we had been simply extending the lease year by year. In order to purchase and move into our new building, the timing needed to be near perfect. The build out in our new place had to be done nearly over night. The plan was for something simple that could provide us with an occupancy permit. We added a basic test area that allows us the perfecting our our equipment and also the development of new products and processes. This proved a valuable asset.

  • 2005

    In 2005 we made the jump to Solid Works software. This was a major leap for us, but it proved to be a good decision. Solid Works played a major role in the standardizing of our product line which lead to more efficient design, operation and manufacturing of our product line.

    In 2007 we added to our production, engineering and installation capability by making an investment in a company located in the western part of Minnesota. This has allowed us to keep HAF as it always has been-a thinking and perfecting company. We are able to give our complete focus on our customers and are not encumbered by production issues.

  • 2009

    In 2009 we achieved our first patent. Initial development of a fully automatic bulk bag unloader scheduled for late 2010.

     

     

  • .