Giemme by MOLA S.R.L.

History

This is the story of the Giemme Company in Mola from 1974 to today, two generations of inventors and innovators in the poultry farming sector.

History

Giemme di Mola from 1974 to today

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1974

In 1974 Mr. Giuseppe Mola began with the production of conveyor belts for the transport of birds inside the farms to the outside where manually the operators insert the birds into the cages. These were the first steps in a new frontier to find a solution for manual harvesting in the direction of automation.

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1975

The following year, 1975, Mr. Mola Giuseppe founded the MF Company where he continued the production and sale of belts for the transport of chickens.

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1976

In 1976 Mr. Giuseppe Mola studied and invented an innovative system to insert chickens directly into the cage. At that time the cages were made of wood or plastic, with small doors, so it was very complicated to find a useful solution to solve loading problems.

Thanks to its transfer straps, the birds were moved and unloaded into a funnel.At this point two fans push the birds through the air flow in a tube and the operator inserts the birds into the cages through this tube.

This is the first patent prototype for the current automatic loading machine.

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1979 - 1984

Mr. Giuseppe Mola in these years, continuing to produce conveyor belts and other agricultural machinery, began to give shape to his idea of a system for the collection of chickens on the farm using not only operators, but proposing automated solutions, creating different automatic machines with different solutions for the collection of chickens directly inside the farms. No other competitor wants to follow this idea, also because in this period, in the 80s, technological solutions were certainly not up to par. Mr. Mola was the only one able to continue and improve these machines.

The first solutions, today, seem very easy and simple, but these are the “first stone” for current self-loading machines.

This model was the real first automatic harvesting machine in history.

The machine, advancing, collected the chickens directly from the ground using a “comb” that, without harming the animals, moved them near the collection tray.

Once the necessary amount was collected, the tray was turned upside down and the chickens were conveyed to the bottom of the tray.

Once the chickens were collected, the tape at the end of the tray moved the chickens to the conveyor belts on the farm.

1980 – The ” comb ” machine.

The following year, 1981, Giemme presented a new solution with better performance, giving the possibility to further lower the harvesting times of chickens, developing a model that allowed animals to be collected with a rear conveyor no longer fixed in a single position, but that could follow the movement of the machine and always unload the chickens in the belts to take them out of the shed.

The front comb was replaced with two rotating cylinders with rubber fingers.

This combined system, cylinders with rubber fingers on the front and rear strap no longer fixed, in addition to lowering the collection time, created less harm to the animals.

1981 – The “finger” machine.

Year after year, Mr. Mola works to improve and make the machines more reliable to avoid downtime during loading.

Animal welfare was also one of Giemme’s priorities, and for this reason Mola continues to develop new solutions.

With the entry into the company of Mr. Enrico Mola, a “new generation machine” starts.

We are in 1984, and the Giemme Company begins to rewrite the new rules for the collection of animals.

So far, harvesting machines have moved by collecting only a small group of chickens at a time, but making the load a rather long and complex phase. In addition, the cages remained outside the farm and the actual loading into the cages was still manual.

Mola father and son, realize the new concept of collection: no longer a “static” load, but a complex mobile machine with oscillating arm to collect all the birds of the farm with a single step.

At the front of the swing arm, a fan gently pushes the animals inside the main conveyor belt and the animals are moved until the machine returns. At this point large quantities of birds were ready to be placed in the cages.

1984 – The “fan” machine.

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1984 - 1995

A new collaboration with the Cattaruzzi company begins, sharing the new BTG Group collection head, of which Cattaruzzi has been able to exploit the patent and the reliable Giemme machine.

This joint venture allows the Mola machine to be included in the US market.

The BTG Group’s capture head consisted of three rotating finger cylinders used to capture birds from the machine’s swing arm.

This machine is from 1985 installed in Italy and still working.

The machine has been equipped with a rear tray where the birds arrive and the operator inserts them into the cages moved inside the farm by tractors.

In the meantime, the Mola company develops a new system to have the front head interchangeable with its new solution.

Two important points remain open using the machine: the damage caused by the front head on the birds, and also the loading and handling of the cages.

Cages can only be loaded from one small door, one bird at a time.

For this reason, the Giemme start again with a new and revolutionary concept of loading birds on cages.

They make a large “basket” where to collect the birds that come from the machine without having to insert one chicken at a time.

This is the first container for live birds

Mr. Giuseppe Mola in these years, continuing to produce conveyor belts and other agricultural machinery, began to give shape to his idea of a system for the collection of chickens on the farm using not only operators, but proposing automated solutions, creating different automatic machines with different solutions for the collection of chickens directly inside the farms. No other competitor wants to follow this idea, also because in this period, in the 80s, technological solutions were certainly not up to par. Mr. Mola was the only one able to continue and improve these machines.

The first solutions, today, seem very easy and simple, but these are the “first stone” for current self-loading machines.

This model was the real first automatic harvesting machine in history.

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1996-2000

Here Mr. Enrico presents the new belt loading head and also the new trolley for drawer containers.

The machine has been redesigned to be loaded onto the truck with the trailer as well.

With this new solution, Mr. Enrico avoids the problem of damage caused by rubber finger heads, further improving loading times.

The machine was driven by an operator in front, who moved his arm and moved the machine forward. The system was a great solution at that time, because, usually, the litters were very wet and full of bumps.

With this front head mounted on the machine, the load can follow the floor and catch all the birds without any damage.

Mr. Enrico also starts with a new production line of machines to process litters, and get a more hygienic place for birds.

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2000-2005

The Giemme company was contacted by a US company, Lewis, and they began to collaborate, transferring the automatic loading machine directly to the US country, to contain the costs of transport by sea and also the delivery times of the transport.

The collaboration with Lewis brought Giemme into contact with the University of the United States and Mr Enrico machine was also published in the specialized magazine.

With Company Lewis, Giemme increases its experience on the US market.

Unfortunately, Lewis’ owner died in 2005 and the company was shut down.

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2005- Today

Between 2005 and 2010, breeders understood that having a better litter meant having healthy animals. So the litter flattens out and Mr. Enrico can start to offer the market his latest machine, designed and patented in the year 2000.

The AURORA model becomes the reference in the collection sector, a fully automatic, self-propelled machine with a single operator to load the containers.

GIEMME, THE BEST LOADING EXPERIENCE

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