VEB Metallweberei Neustadt / Orla

Our team at Blau-Metall brings nearly three decades of technical experience in the manufacture of laboratory test sieves, in particular sieves for cereals and cereal products which have been the core of our product palette since 1994. As part of a larger expansion effort started in 2018, we can now offer ISO 5223 test sieves to customers all across the world who seek highly durable, highly precise sieving solutions for cereal trade relationships and intervention measures.

All Blau-Metall products proudly carry the label “Made in Germany” as all major components of our products are either manufactured in-house at our Thuringia location or produced / sourced from our partners across Germany. As a small, family-owned proprietorship firm, we can provide our customers with flexible & tailored solutions that are impossible with large, rigid company structures.

“Blau-Metall” was incorporated as a company in 1991 by Mr. Thomas Blau, former staff member at the “VEB Metallweberei” (Technical Weaving Mill) in Neustadt/Orla, Thuringia. Initially, our company manufactured espagnolette locks which originated within the product line of VEB Metallweberei and found primary use as locking mechanisms for electric control boxes.

Production was expanded in 1992 with the manufacture of industrial heating pads for electric radiators. In parallel to these two manufacturing branches, we offered repair services for test sieves originally produced at VEB Metallweberei after the company was dissolved due to financing issues in the wake of the German Reunification.

Because of a high demand for new test sieves, Blau-Metall – then BML – restarted production in 1993 based on the tools and knowledge from the former VEB Production. However, Blau-Metall, from the beginning, switched the entire production from a brass sieve design which had been state of the art into the early 1990s to a 100% stainless steel sieve design – making us one of the first companies to do so.

Over almost 30 years of experience in the area of test sieve production and application as well as continued improvements of our precision milling, laser-cutting and optical inspection technology allow us to deliver traditional screening solutions that are second to none in quality, longevity and reliability.

TGL Standard of the German Democratic Republic for Test Sieves (Shown are Tolerances for Sieve Lid, Sieve Frame & Collecting Pan)