International technology Group ANDRITZ has acquired Royal
GMF-Gouda (Goudsche Machinefabriek) with headquarters in
Waddinxveen, Netherlands, including its operations in
Germany, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia, and the USA.
The company has around 140 employees in total and generates
annual sales of approximately 40 MEUR. It was agreed not to
disclose the purchase price.
Royal GMF-Gouda is one of the leading manufacturers of
drying solutions, mainly drum dryers and paddle dryers for
the food industry (e.g. baby food), the chemical industry,
and the municipal sector of the environmental industry. The
company complements and extends the range of products and
services of the ANDRITZ SEPARATION business area in the
drying sector. The company's integration into the
international ANDRITZ sales network will open up growth
opportunities for Royal GMF-Gouda, both geographically and
in terms of customers.
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For further information, please contact:
Oliver Pokorny
Group Treasury, Corporate Communications & Investor
Relations
Phone: +43 (316) 6902 1332
oliver.pokorny@andritz.com
The ANDRITZ GROUP
International technology Group ANDRITZ is a globally
leading supplier of plants, equipment, and services for
hydropower stations, the pulp and paper industry,
solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial
sectors, the steel industry, and the production of animal
feed and biomass pellets. In addition, ANDRITZ offers
technologies for other sectors including automation, pumps,
machinery for nonwovens and plastic films, steam boiler
plants, biomass boilers and gasification plants for energy
generation, flue gas cleaning plants, plants for the
production of panelboard (MDF), thermal sludge utilization,
and torrefaction plants. The publicly listed ANDRITZ GROUP
is headquartered in Graz, Austria and has a staff of more
than 17,400 employees worldwide. ANDRITZ operates over 180
production sites as well as service and sales companies all
around the world.
ANDRITZ SEPARATION
ANDRITZ SEPARATION is one of the leading global suppliers
of plants and equipment for mechanical solid/liquid
separation of municipal and industrial sludges, for
suspensions in many different industries (coal, ore and
mineral processing, chemical, petrochemical and food
industries) and for biomass (wood, bagasse, paper, fiber
and deinking sludges, rejects), as well as for subsequent
thermal drying of these products. Its field of activity
covers planning and manufacture of key components and
turnkey plants (thickeners and screens for sewage and
effluent treatment, centrifuges, drum and disc filters,
belt and filter presses for dewatering, as well as plants
for drying and incineration of sludge), installation and
start-up of complete plants, the entire automation and
safety engineering, as well
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