Bulk specialist returns to the market with bold rebrand and renewed purpose
Following its successful rebranding to Qlar in May 2024, the bulk material specialist formerly known as Schenck Process will officially return to the North American market from September 1, 2025. Qlar’s renewed focus empowers key industries – including cement, steel, chemicals, performance materials, rail and food – by offering both established expertise and a new generation of digitally enabled solutions. Existing customers in North America with installed Schenck Process systems can now benefit from comprehensive aftermarket, spare parts, and maintenance services, alongside new offerings designed to address today’s complex industrial challenges.
In September 2023, Schenck Process completed the sale of its Food & Performance Materials (FPM) business to Hillenbrand, Inc. (NYSE: HI). This initiated a brief pause from North America, during which the company focused on evolving its vision and brand. Now, the company returns as Qlar, bringing together the trusted engineering heritage of Schenck Process with a new brand promise focused on delivering innovative, tailored solutions to the market.
With this market re-entry, Qlar not only reaffirms its identity as a partner that customers have relied on for decades but an expanded commitment to core sectors: cement, steel, mining, chemicals, performance materials, rail and food. By integrating digitalization and advanced process expertise, Qlar will prioritize reliability, efficiency, and close customer collaboration to meet the region’s evolving industrial landscape.
“Our return as Qlar is more than a relaunch. It’s a new chapter built on both our legacy and a clear commitment to advancing sustainability and circularity in North American industry,” says Manfred Bruckner, Chief Sales Officer at Qlar. “We are dedicated to empowering sectors like cement, steel, battery, chemicals, plastics, and rail with proven technology and fresh thinking that drive reliability, efficiency, and responsible resource use. We look forward to partnering with both longstanding and new customers to create lasting value and help realize a more sustainable industrial future.”
Qlar is duly authorized to offer its comprehensive range of solutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The company's product portfolio includes advanced solutions for bulk material handling, process automation, digital monitoring, and aftermarket services as well as specialized systems for the rail sector.
As a first step in reconnecting with the market, Qlar will be present at the AMI Plastics World Expo in Cleveland, Ohio, from November 12 to 13, 2025. This marks the company’s first official event following its re-entry, offering industry stakeholders an opportunity to meet the Qlar team, see the latest solutions, and explore new opportunities for collaboration.
About Qlar Group
Qlar (formerly Schenck Process) is a global provider of sustainable products, integrated solutions, and services in mission-critical applications for bulk materials. Headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, the group has more than 1,100 employees with a presence in over 13 countries focusing on markets alongside chemicals and performance materials, food and pet food, mining, infrastructure and energy as well as alternative fuels. The production sites are located around the globe in India, China, Germany, UK and Czech Republic.
The product range includes solutions for industrial weighing, feeding, conveying, milling and grinding, and related digital applications of the CONiQ product family. With its testing infrastructure of 4 global test centres and 6 centres of competence, Qlar knows more than 40,000 different bulk materials across its relevant verticals.
Under the motto “driving circular transformation” the long-established international company is taking on a leading role in climate-neutral material processing and will focus even more strongly on digitalised and sustainable solutions in future, helping their clients to achieve a carbon-neutral sector by 2050.
For more information, please visit www.qlar.com
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