Meissner is specialised in plants and machinery for the processing of explosives and related items and offers the following products and services for the Defence Industry.

Ammunition Filling Plants

Plants and equipment for filling, cooling, testing and final assembling including packing of all types of ammunition are designed according to customer's requirement. The special features of Meissner Ammunition Filling Plants are:

• Universal application for various types of ammunition
• Design for processing of TNT and all TNT-based mixed explosives (TNT/RDX, TNT/HNS, TNT/NTO, TNT/HMX, Tritonal, H6, HBX-3 etc.), as far as these are meltable and pourable
• High flexibility due to modular conversion kits
• High and uniform product quality
• Highest possible safety by computerized process and production monitoring
• Clean and safe working places
• Numerous reference plants

Plants for Melting and Mixing of Explosives

• Special plants for the processing of high viscosity explosives mixtures with and without aluminium

Special Filling Plants for Vacuum Casting

• Developed for the manufacture of high performance shaped charges and warheads

Special Cooling Processes

• Cooling of filled shells in hot-probing units according to the well known and well proven Meissner hot-probing process in one operating step
• Tailor-made cooling equipment for shaped charges and warheads

Plants for Manufacture of Pressed Charges

• Equipment and machinery for the manufacture of pressed charges of any kind of explosive

Plants for Dosing and Loading of Propellants

• Equipment and machinery for loading of propellants into cartridge cases, bags, etc.

Special Machines for Assembly of Ammunition

• special of machines for assembling ammunition, e.g. crimping, weighing, assembling of fuzes or primers, painting, marking, etc.

At-Site Service

• Development of new products or applications by Meissner experts at customer's plant site