SPX merger food activities in Soeborg

27 June 2011

SPX Flow Technology merger its engineering companies in the food and beverage industry, and expands its testing and innovation center in Søborg. The upgraded test and Innovation Centre is a state-of-the-art innovation center, which customers can use in their product development.

SPX Corporation has announced that its Flow Technology division will merge two existing companies in Denmark and expand the new innovation and test center for food and beverage industry in Søborg. The new facility will offer customers access to state-of-the-art knowledge and counselling and to test new products and technologies based on the most advanced equipment for the food and beverage production.

SPX expand its current test center in Søborg with additional equipment and processes, where customers can test new production processes and products - among other things based on oils and fats, drying and evaporation.The Test Centre was originally established by Danish Anhydro - a leading supplier of process technology and equipment for drying and evaporation. Anhydro was acquired by SPX in 2010. SPX will install the equipment from Danish Gerstenberg Schröder, who SPX also took over in 2010 and bring together a number of its core competencies in the food and beverage production into the upgraded testing center in Søborg.

- SPX will with the expanded test and innovation center in Søborg merge some of its most important competences and skills in one location in Denmark. And we are convinced that the collective resources and expertise in this Innovation Centre will be very attractive to the world's leading companies in the food and beverage industry, which chooses to use knowledge, technology and equipment from APV, Gerstenberg Schröder and Anhydro - the three Danish companies that are part of SPX, said Don Canterna, President of the Flow Technology segment of SPX.

- The expanded facilities in Denmark are part of our strategic commitment to further strengthen our competitive presence in Europe in the dry and wet process technology and equipment. Because we want more targeted to meet the ongoing research and developmental needs of our food customers throughout the world are working with, says Don Canterna.

The company has already advanced testing and laboratory facilities for food production in Silkeborg. The Innovation Centre in Silkeborg is among the largest of its kind in the world and offers technical expertise in areas such as heat treatment, membrane filtration, heat exchangers, mixing, butter, blending, soy milk, bag-in-box filling systems and advanced systems for process monitoring and control.

This article was printed in Industriens Dagblad, www.idag.dk.