The Lion story starts in 1966 when Helmut Willem Carlsen founded the Swedish organisation H.W.Carlsen located in Malmö. Between 1967 and 1970, Mr Carlsen engineered and delivered its first Ship-to-silo Unloader, self-discharging cement carrier and dry bulk storage solutions using fluidization fabric. In 1970, H.W.Carlsen sold several abroad projects, becoming an international success.

During the 70s and 80s, the bulk handling organization keeps thriving to develop more efficient and effective solutions. The First modern ship-to-silo unloader with a manipulator arm and several unloaders in combination with fluidization fabric systems are delivered and convey thousands of dry bulk materials per year. By the 1980s, Carlsen introduced an offshore solution by combining mud mixing and dry bulk handling systems on board a platform supply vessel. Many systems follow under the Ruyter offshore brand.

In 1990, FLS-Fuller Bulk Handling bought H.W.Carlsen AB (and Kovako B.V.), the global cement cargo flow and production solutions provider, to strengthen the company’s offering. During these years, the brands Kintec Bulk Handling and Bulk Academy were founded in the Netherlands, focusing on the local and European cement industry, selling conveying units and bulk training.

In 2004, H.W.Carlsen was sold to a Swedish investment company. Ruyter Offshore received several offshore drilling rig projects, including Liquid mud and dry bulk handling solutions. Our Bulk Academy won its first feasibility studies from Total, Petronas and Shell.