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Andritz Environment and Process Business Area Strategy

We are the world’s leading supplier of high-tech production systems and machines for mechanical water and waste-water treatment, sludge treatment and industrial liquid/solid separation, and we aim to strengthen this leading position globally.

From single machines to complete process lines

We offer our customers complete process expertise and a full range of solutions from single machines to turnkey production lines.  All key components and machines are based on our in-house know-how.  Where it is necessary to complete the existing product portfolio, this will be achieved by organic growth, through Research and Development, and complementary acquisitions.

Continued technology leadership

We continue to invest a significant portion of our revenues in making our products more competitive. Our intensive research and development activities are aimed at further increasing the performance and efficiency of our current portfolio of products and processes and developing further attractive solutions to our customers’ needs.

Global presence – sustainable and long-lasting customer relationships

Our success is based upon the level of our products and services and upon the quality of our staff and our management team.  We are central to our customers world-wide.  Affiliates on all continents, sales offices and local service centers make sure that our know-how is adapted to our customers’ needs, thus building a long-term relationship.  As an international business area with not more than 15% of its staff working inside one single country, we rely on a multilocation organization with local management in order to ensure close contacts with our customers, and global access to all our relevant technologies.

Synergies within the Andritz Group

We use existing synergies within the Andritz Group to solve our customers’ problems and meet their requirements more efficiently: transfer of key technologies between business areas, joint utilization of specialized central functions, such as manufacturing, quality assurance, automation, and worldwide service facilities across all business areas.

Highest quality and leadership in cost and capacity management:

Cost analysis and strict cost management together with product standardization and modularization ensure that our products are competitive. Our world-wide production facilities are dimensioned such as to ensure sufficient capacity for highest-quality key components without penalizing competitiveness by adding high fixed costs.  The potentials of world-wide sourcing and purchasing are continuously explored without compromising quality or schedules.

Extension of service business for the benefit of our customers:

We are systematically extending the range of services provided to our customers to help them to achieve highest availability and product quality with our systems.  With 9 dedicated service centers, we lead the field in centrifuge repairs, refurbishments and upgrades.  We have also developed systematic audit and benchmarking services in order to assist our customers in identifying potentials to maximize the performance of their processes.

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