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Flottweg Separation Technology

2010-04-21T09:16:00.000-07:00

Flottweg is a medium-sized company and is one of the worldwide leading solution providers in the field of mechanical separation technology. The company, headquartered in Vilsbiburg, Deutschland (Germany) achieves an annual turnover of over 116 Million Euros with an export rate of more than 85 %. Flottweg has own subsidiaries and branch offices with service centers in the US, in People’s Republic of China, in Russia, Italy, Poland, France, Australia and Mexico.

Flottweg's success is no longer limited to German-speaking countries. The proof is the 80% export rate of its products. The company is supported and represented by subsidiaries and branch offices that include sales, engineering, and aftermarket support in many major in- dustrialized countries around the world. Flottweg has established three major business centers around the world: Flottweg Cincinnati to cover the North American market, Flottweg Germany and France for Europe and Africa, and Flottweg Shanghai for Asia. For additional company information please visit the following links.

- Applications
- Product Line
- Aftersales Service

Alternative Spare Parts Suppliers for Process Equipment - Part 2

2009-11-19T17:36:00.000-08:00

In continuation with my last post, another lists of alternative spare parts suppliers for process equipment are added here for your information. Please check and review their profile.

Separator Spares International (UK) Ltd.

Separator Spares International (UK) Ltd was formed ten years ago to service the marine markets with genuine and non-genuine spare parts for Alfa Laval oil separation equipment. The company service the industrial and marine markets with genuine and non genuine spare parts for Alfa Laval process equipment such as Separators and Heat Exchangers. As the company matured it found a growing market for process equipment like plate heat exchangers, evaporators and the re-gasketing of plate packs. It is now in the unique position of being able to offer spares and service for all types of heat exchanger and separation equipment.

The company can supply original spare plates, complete heat exchangers, new separators and genuine spare parts from most OEM manufacturers at very competitive prices. Check the following links for an overview of the company's products and services.

Spare Parts for Marine & Industrial Separators
Reconditioned Marine & Industrial Separators
Exchange Bowls Programme
Control Systems for Separators
Reconditioned Heat Exchangers
Exchange Plate Packs
Gaskets for Heat Exchanger

Where saving money is crucial, it also offer a range of completely reconditioned heat exchangers, spare plates, separators and non-genuine separator spares, all at a fraction of the cost of new or OEM prices.

All equipment and spare parts that the company sell as “reconditioned” or “non-genuine” are guaranteed for a minimum of twelve months of operation and to be within OEM manufacturing tolerances. In many cases its non-genuine spares are purchased direct from the OEM supplier. Therefore, when it comes to supplying new heat exchangers, separators and spare parts, the company will find the ideal solution for your application and budget.

Separator Spares International (UK) Ltd and all its associated companies has no association and/or claims to be associated with The Alfa Laval Company or Group of Companies Worldwide. Any implied association is purely coincidental and is not inferred. Separator Spares International Ltd are suppliers of fully interchangeable spare parts for Alfa Laval centrifugal separators and heat exchangers.

Moody Direct
Moody Direct is a focused supplier of engineering supplies, parts, consumables and process servicing to the dairy, food, beverage, brewery, pharmaceutical and personal care industries.

It offers a single source for the widest range of products at competitive prices, and represents some of the best known brand names in the industry with genuine spare parts.

Brand names such as APV, Tetra Pak, Fristam, Hilge, Mono, Inoxpa, Alfa Laval, Waukesha, Packo, Realm, Tuchenhagen, Sudmo, GEA, Fischer, Schmidt, Sondex, Swep, Niro Soavi, Ultrafilter, Dawson, Burnett & Rolfe, UniChain, Hayward Tyler, Fogg, Bran & Luebbe, Endress & Hauser, and Federal are all represented by Moody Direct.

Moody Direct offers a professional maintenance engineering service to the dairy, food and beverage industries. It has become the UK's leading integrated supplier of MRO (maintenance, repair and operating) spare parts to the dairy, food and beverage industries.

Benefits of using Moody Direct as your preferred supplier

    * Supplier reduction
    * Material cost reductions
    * Inventory reductions - value & quantity
    * Simplified administration
    * 24 hour, 365 day emergency cover

    * Price Promise: Moody Direct are continuously driving down
      prices on all product lines to provide the best possible value to our
      customers

* Service: Moody Direct continually focus on providing the absolute
best of service to meet the ever increasing customer demands.

Here's the link for the company's Spare Parts Product Range, Engineering Maintenance Catalogue and Contact Information

Alternative Spare Parts Suppliers for Process Equipment - Part 1

2009-11-11T09:35:00.000-08:00

Company's with installed base of process equipment which operate on a regular basis will always be in need of spare parts whether for urgent requirement or stock keeping purposes. To have 100% spare parts availability it is always worthwhile to consider to have a standby list of alternative suppliers of spare parts for process equipment that could fill-in the gap specifically in certain instances where original supplier could not deliver or is not an option. There will always be a situation where original supplier of spare parts for process equipment could not deliver due to reasons such as price issue, long delivery time and poor presence or interest from Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).

To assist you in filling the gap this site has done the work for you to simplify and shorten your time in searching for alternative suppliers. Please take the time to check the following companies that supply spare parts for process equipment and decide their usefulness according to your requirement.

HGF-PHE Sweden AB

A young company (founded in 2005 in Halmstad, Sweden) with efficient systems of routines and handling as well as being flexible and open for new ideas, with broad and deep experience (decades of experience in the field of Plate Heat Exchanger Products & Applications).

The company's experience covers both working with OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers) as well as non-Originals (”non-OEM”). It's not only a supplier of Products but also support with technical assistance to their customers. You can visit the following links to know more about the company.

- Products & Brands
- Technical Support
- Quality

Contact Information

HeatExchangerSpares.com

HeatExchangerSpares.com has over 20 years experience in the heat exchanger industry. They have set up the world's first website for the online purchasing of plate heat exchanger spare parts and associated equipment.

The company sell competitively priced genuine plates and gaskets from all the leading brand names including: Alfa Laval, GEA, HRS Heat Exchangers and SWEP. In addition they also offer a broad range of high quality, non-genuine gaskets, which come with all the same guarantees as their branded counterparts, together with complementary accessories, hand tools, personal protective equipment and friction spanners. Making a purchase could not be easier; just browse the following links then the rest will be for you to decide.

- Products

- Maintenance

- Contact Information

All Items are available for dispatch from their warehouses located in Europe, USA and India.

Arsopi S.A. Process Equipment

2009-11-04T07:02:00.000-08:00

ARSOPI S.A.

Arsopi S.A., is a company from ARSOPI Group which was founded in 1942 with list of customers in more than 70 countries worldwide. Their business relationship is often more than just selling, as they try to find, together with their customers, tailor-made process equipment solutions to their particular requirements and needs specifically in industries such as in the dairy, wine and beverages, chemical and petrochemical.

The company have highly qualified professionals, cutting edge technology, know-how and the solidness of the ARSOPI Group. The Group includes two other industrial units: Arsopi-Thermal, that designs and manufactures Plate Heat Exchangers, and Tecnocon, that is a company of Industrial Automation.

The exigency and demand of over 60 years of history will continue to be the pillars of company work in the future.

Tetra Pak Processing Solution

2009-10-21T19:10:00.000-07:00

Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak is a multinational food processing and packaging company of Swedish origin. It was founded in 1951 in Lund, Sweden, by Ruben Rausing. The company is part of the Tetra Laval group which also includes Sidel – who specialise in PET bottles – and DeLaval, a producer of dairy farming machinery and food processing equipment.

Tetra Pak Processing provides solutions and services to enable customers in the dairy, cheese-making, beverage, ice-cream, prepared food and cosmetic industries to achieve safe, cost-effective, continuous processing of quality products.

Processing Equipment

The company offers a wide range of unique sanitary equipment covering all the needs of the liquid food industry applications: pumps, valves, heat exchangers, homogenizers, high speed centrifugal separation, ice cream freezers, variegate dosing, filtration, blending, mixing. Their offer goes from simple components to complete turn-key projects.

Full System Supplier

The company supplies complete integrated processing, packaging and distribution lines, and stand-alone equipment, carefully tested to make sure they give you optimal performance.

Plant Engineering

Tetra Pak's strength in plant engineering and project management is reflected by 50 years of experience in designing food processing and packaging plants, by thousands of plants in operation world wide, and by a presence in more than 120 countries. At every stage of project management, from initial evaluation to plant handover, Tetra Pak can take complete responsibility. From factory revamping to design and installation of complete new production lines, its capabilities range from food process engineering, controls, automation, project management, installation, start-up and training.

Genuine Spare Parts

As part of its product support, Tetra Pak offers a complete line of genuine spare parts for ensured reliability, including pumps, valves, and integration components. Using genuine spare parts ensures that you will have fewer unplanned stoppages, minimum downtimes, easier ordering cycles, and less inventory to stock.

Maintenance Solutions

The company maintenance solutions help you maximize the performance of your plant. It schedules the delivery time of your spare parts to coincide with service so that you can save on inventory costs and downtime. Tetra Pak can also dispatch maintenance experts to be a part of an annual shutdown to perform maintenance activities without interrupting day-to-day operations.

Upgrade Solutions

As a total solution provider and long-term partner, Tetra Pak offers a wide range of customized and pre-built upgrade solutions for our complete systems, aseptic modules, and processing components including Tetra Alex homogenizers, Tetra Centri separators and the Tetra Alfast Milk Standardization module. The company address competitive market demands, food safety concerns, government regulations, and the challenges of swift technological advancement.

PRODUCTS & SERVICES:

Contact Information

Global Suppliers of Process Equipment

2009-10-17T17:35:00.000-07:00

In the midst of continuous demand from existing and emerging customer segments the search for sustainable global process equipment suppliers with technical expertise, reliable products, efficient service, finest process engineering skills & global network of distribution centers is endless. Global process equipment suppliers that could optimize the performance of the customers’ processes with reputation based on their unique knowledge and experience in the specific field will always be in the lookout.

Summarized below are the initial process equipment suppliers name, profile and site link, with the plan to continually update the list once a new source is available.

COMPANY NAME

Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval develops, manufactures and sells special products and world-class technical solutions that help customers optimize the performance of their processes. Time and time again.

Their equipment and systems create solutions for heating, cooling, separation and fluid handling of products such as oil, chemicals, water, beverages, foodstuffs, starch and pharmaceuticals.

The market strategy at Alfa Laval is based on a sales organization that works close to the customers. The company markets its products in nine customer segments. To gain a distinct customer focus, the segments are divided into two divisions: the Equipment Division and the Process Technology Division. In addition, there is a special organization that serves the aftermarket, Parts and Service.

Alfa Laval is the global leader in its three key technologies
•    Heat Transfer
•    Separation
•    Fluid Handling
all of which are of vital importance for industrial processes.

The strongest market position is in plate heat exchangers, with an estimated market share of more than 30%. The combined market share for separators and decanters is estimated to be 25-30%, with fluid handling accounting for a global market share of 10%.

Alfa Laval’s procurement, manufacturing and logistics activities supply the sales organization with the right quality products at the right time. The majority of these activities are organized in the Operations Division.

The company sells its products in approximately 100 countries and has its own sales organizations in over half these countries.

The customer´s peace of mind depends on having the right service set-up. For Alfa Laval, service is a total concept that covers everything: from supplying the smallest spare part to being a lifetime performance partner. Alfa Laval has a global network with more than 200 skilled service specialists, a broad range of competitive service solutions, unique expertise based on more than 120 years in business and service centers in hundreds of locations in more than 50 countries.

The following links will explain more details on the company's process equipment Service & Support, Global Products, and Contact information.

GEA Group

GEA Group is one of the largest solution providers for food and energy processes with more than EUR 5.2 billion in 2008 revenue.

As an internationally operating technology group, the company focuses on process technology and components for demanding production processes in various end markets. The group generates about 70 percent of its revenue from the long-term growing food and energy industries.

As of June 30, 2009, a workforce of over 20,000 employees served customers in 50 countries. GEA Group is a market and technology leader in 90 percent of its business areas. GEA Group is listed in the MDAX index (G1A, WKN 660200).

New structure of the GEA Group with effect from January 2010

With effect from January 1, 2010, the businesses of the existing nine divisions, which are reported as two segments, will be regrouped into five segments without altering the overall portfolio of the group.

The new structure provides a clear alignment of technologies and applications within the group.

Note: HE: Heat Exchanger, HVAC: Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning

Company's various process equipment divisions:

GEA Product Database and Contact Information.

APV
APV, part of SPX Corporation, is a global supplier of process engineering and automation solutions to the dairy, food, beverage, marine pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. From the supply of engineered components to complete process engineering and design, it specializes in helping its customers improve their plants’ performance and profitability, which is maintained throughout the lifetime of support services, carefully tailored to its customers’ needs. We are committed to helping our customers all over the world to improve the performance and profitability of their manufacturing plant and processes. We achieved this by offering advanced technology products and processing plants supported by world leading applications and development expertise, and a timely meshed customer service and spare parts network. All APV sites are ISO 9001 certified.

Founded in 1910, APV has pioneered groundbreaking technologies over nearly a century, setting the standards of the modern processing industry.

Research and development based on customer needs and our own ability to foresee their future needs continue to drive the company’s growth.

See additional process equipment information on the following links:
•    Products
•    Process Equipment
•    Flow Control
•    Dehydration & Filtration
•    Global Locations

Aalborg Industries
Aalborg Industries is a leading equipment and service supplier in the marine sector and a supplier of industrial products to selected key markets.

The headquarters of Aalborg Industries is located in the city of Aalborg in Denmark and traces its history as a boiler engineering and manufacturing company back to 1919. From its origins as part of Aalborg Shipyard, Aalborg Industries grew to supplying marine boilers to other shipyards internationally and developed a business within supply and service of industrial and power station boilers.

Since the late 1960s, Aalborg Industries has carried out boiler service around the world and opened its first subsidiary abroad in 1978. In the past decade, additional resources have been invested in strengthening the company's expertise in service and equipment supply for Floating Production Systems (the offshore market).

In recent decades, Aalborg Industries has acquired several leading marine equipment companies and a couple of industrial companies.

Today, Aalborg Industries is the world's leading marine boiler engineering company and manufacturer and a major supplier of inert gas systems, thermal fluid systems, and shell & tube heat exchangers. The company's process equipment global business areas are:

•    Marine Boilers and Heat Exchangers »
•    Inert Gas Systems »
•    Thermal Fluid Systems »
•    Floating Production Systems »
•    Global After Sales »
•    Industrial Boilers »

The Aalborg Industries Group is a private limited company owned by Nordic investment companies. The Group generally designs and manufactures all its own products at its own facilities. The engineering centers are in Aalborg, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Kobe, Rauma, Singapore, Sydney and Petrópolis while the major factories are located in China, Denmark, Brazil and Vietnam.

See the following links for the Products & Services and Global Locations.

The Alstrom Corporation
The Alstrom Corporation has provided leadership and innovation in Heat Transfer Equipment Design and Manufacturing since 1939. Their comprehensive product line includes Patented Technologies designed for maximum performance efficiency. Alstrom equipment meets and exceeds ASME Section VIII (Division 1) requirements, is “U,” “S,” “H,” National Board “R,” “NB” certiﬁed and meets TEMA and other industrial standards. Alstrom equipment is based on a proven design methodology. All products are   manufactured using the highest quality materials and an unsurpassed level of craftsmanship. Alstrom has earned its reputation for excellence in engineering and manufacturing across a wide range of sophisticated heat transfer products, setting them apart from their competitors. No matter which product and/or options you select you will receive a truly unique solution, customized to address your specific needs whether they are HVAC, Industrial, Process or any other application.

Refer to the following links for further information on the company's process equipment Products and Sales Office.