During the 1950s, Geesink was one of several Netherlands companies which built a fore & aft tipper designed by Pieter De Graaff. By the 1960s, an escalator-compactor rear loader was added, for use with a portable container system, featuring tilt-dump or ejection unloading. Additionally, the American Leach Packmaster was built under license during the 1960s.
Cut-away drawing of escalator-packer, ejection-discharge version
Geesink has seen their greatest sales success with the GPM series rear loaders introduced in the 1970s, based on a design by Moser AG of Switzerland. The Geesink version has become one of the most popular high-compaction rear loaders in Europe, outlasting Moser with series GPM-2-3-4 succeeding the original. Geesink was bought by UK-based Powell-Duffryn Engineering (PDE) in the 1980s, which brought the mighty GPM series to the British Isles as the PDE Vulture. With the acquisition of Swedish manufacturer Norba, the two companies were combined to form the Geesink-Norba Group. In 2001, Geesink-Norba Group was acquired by Oshkosh Corporation, an American specialist truck manufacturer and parent company of McNeilus. Oshkosh in turn sold the company to Platinum Equity in 2009, and more recently it changed hands again to its current owner, Mutares AG of Munich, Germany.
The mighty GPM series would solidify Geesinks leading position in the industry
Early GPM bulk loader, based on the Moser Mammut: This would become Geesink's most popular model
Geesink was bought by Powell-Duffryn Engineering; This GPM sports PD-Geesink badges
The GPM-2 series was introduced in the 1980s
INSIDE THE GPM SERIES
Tim demonstrates the GPM-2 packing cycle (Jaap Mikkers video)
The GPM-3 with curved body shell made its debut circa 2005
GPM-3 with roof-mounted crane and special top-load tailgate for underground refuse containers
Later model GPM-3 features re-styled tailgate
The GCB Series Multi-compartment rear loaders offer a unique body design in a co-collector. The body is divided horizontally, helping stability by keeping the load from piling up on one side. Loading is done by semi-automated lift, for commercial or residential bins, and fed by twin paddle packer with a common drive shaft.
The latest addition is the Geesink-Norba Sport side loader, manufactured under license by MacDonald Johnston Engineering of Australia. These smoothbore paddle packers bring fully-automated residential collection capability to the lineup with a popular and proven design.
See Also: Leach, Moser-Burgdorf, Norba, Powell-Duffryn Engineering
The radical GCB Series co-collector
Bins are raised and emptied by semi-automated lifts
Inside, twin paddle packers driven by a common shaft feed upper and lower compartments
Cross-section showing vertical ejector for top compartment, horizontal ejector for lower
Packer units are separate, driven by common shaft
Balanced loading is achieved with horizontal division of body
GeesinkNorba Sport ASL was designed by MacDonald Johnston Engineering of Australia
The Sport design has been a popular seller for MJE for several years
