The GERINHGOFF products are mainly the corn cutting platforms. The “Carl Geringhoff GmbH” company located in Ahlen, Germany. Its activity is connected with manufacture of the harvesting production, for instance, corns and sunflowers. The whole story can be observed in 12 main dates on the manufacturer website:
1880 – establishing of the company
1890 – first threshing machines
1956 – corn shellers
1988 – the first foldable grade header
1995 – presentation of Rota-Disk
1997 – header with own gear box. At first header’s drive is working without belts and chains
1998 – introduction of “Mais Star” corn header for extreme conditions
2004 – presentation of active stubble seperator “Horizon Star” in “ROTA-DISK”
2007 – “Sun Star” and “Sun Star Horizon” sunflower cutting platform (huge harvest losses)
2011 – third line of “SunLite ”sunflower headers
2011 – appearance of conception of “Independеnce” corn cutting platform after 8 years of developments
2012 – first plant abroad in St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA
The most popular headers models:
Model | Cutting device | Features |
Mais-Star MS | shrinkable rollers | |
Mais-Star MS SC | rotor cutting knife | rear dislocation |
PCA | rollers with knives | contr- cutting plate |
Rota-Disc | two rollers for feeding and shrinking | shaft and disk knives |
Horizon-Star | same as “Rota-Disk” | rotor chopper of stems |