Company profile and history
Milestones of the company development
Company history
HELIOS GmbH is a family-run company which specialises in the development, production and global sales of equipment and machines for material handling, in particular in the field of plastics, starting from the production at raw materials to compounding up to processing.
The product spectrum ranges from industrial emptying stations for large containers to pneumatic conveying and dedusting devices up to plastic granulate dryers, designed as top-mounted, stand-alone or portion dryers.
HELIOS products are used in a wide range of industries and applications, such as in the plastic, automobile and electronics industry as well as medicine, chemistry and process technology.
Since 1982 HELIOS has been setting new industry standards under the motto "We invented it" in the material handling sector.
The first portion dryer for plastic granulate, the first emptying system from above for bulk materials in bulk containers and the first small-quantity plastic granulate dryer with a database and plastic-specific, flow-dependent dryer settings as well as granulate deduster with compressed-air jet all come from HELIOS. In the meantime, more than 10,000 dryers, more than 5,000 emptying systems and more than 1,000 dedusters have been sold in more than 50 countries.
HELIOS GmbH milestones
1982 The engineering office for plastics technology, IKT, was founded in Rosenheim as a forerunner to HELIOS GmbH by Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Wilhelm.
1990 HELIOS Gerätebau für Kunststofftechnik GmbH is founded in Olching by K.Wilhelm, W.Fritz and V.Willian. Introduction of HELIOMAT®, the first portion dryer in the world with removable drying containers at FAKUMA.
1994 Moved to a new company building in Dachau.
1996 First introduction of the OKTOMAT® emptying system at FAKUMA.
1998 Introduction of the removable JETBOXX® dryer control unit and company head office moved to Rosenheim.
2001 Introduction of the JETBOXX® range with database, the mother of all current small-quantity compressed air dryers worldwide at K-2001.
2004 The well proven type series WINsystem® is added to the JETBOXX® range.
2007 Since the K-2007, all JETBOXX® dryers have featured a material conveyor with or without dedusting.
Patent application for the first HELIO®Clean 2 dedusting system.
2012 Market launch of a deduster with ionisation. The price/performance-optimized JETBOXX®WINneo version was launched at the same time.
2016 Introduction of the 5-stage dedusting process with ion shower, the HELIO® Clean Pro.
2019 Market launch of „HELIOS® Dedusting Dryer“
2020 Delivery of the 100th HELIOS® dedusting dryer for lens production.
2021 Introduction of the HELIOS® dedusting dryer “Optical Edition”.
2022 Dedusting device HELIO®Clean Pro 30 for throughputs < 150 kg/h
2023 Market introduction of the WINneo® 2, "ready"-version with Modbus..
2024 Development of WINneo® 2 to the “connect”-version with WiFi.
2025 Development of WINneo® 2 to the “fully”-version with UPC-UA interface.
Presentation of the new Dust Killing Method (DKM) dedusting process at K 2025.
2026 Market launch of the new HELIO®Clean 5 deduster generation with DKM and adaptation of the DKM process for HELIO®Clean 3 Plus.
Introduction of WINneo®-2.com package for smart factory with two applications: .pro and .net
