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Edition 01/2020

Article and Compact News

Our AERZEN customer journal "AERZEN com.press" will provide you with detailed information at regular intervals about our company, our products and application solutions.

Article

Food Safety: AERZEN has the ISO 22000

Certificate for effective risk management

The management system for food safety ISO 22000 unifies the standards landscape at international level. AERZEN is one of the first companies in the compressed air industry worldwide to comply with ISO 22000 - and, thus, underlines the importance of product safety, especially in the food industry. The certificate is valid for all blowers and compressors built by AERZEN at its headquarters in Lower Saxony.

AERZEN products are often used in the food and animal feed industry.

Process air solutions from AERZEN are used in many ways in the food and feed industry. The confidence of plant manufacturers and manufacturing final customers is correspondingly high. With ISO 22000 certification, the technology leader is taking process safety to a new level in numerous food-related applications, such as pneumatic conveying of powders and granulates or the loosening of bulk materials. 

Especially in the food industry, it is crucial to be able to rely on process air that is really free from impurities such as oil, abrasion or insulating material. For a good reason, AERZEN has developed silencers without absorption materials for example and equips them with a special spark arrester in view of explosion protection. 

Structured identification of potential hazards

With the uniform framework for action, risks in the direct and indirect environment of the food production chain can be safely identified. The structured identification of potential hazards, then, forms the basis for effective risk management. As already successfully practiced in other management standards, the continuous improvement process (CIP) is an essential tool for sustainable process improvements in ISO 22000. 

For AERZEN the certification according to ISO 22000 represents in this context a further international component for product safety.

Compact news

Aerzen Digital Systems: new data-based services provider

AERZEN is expanding its service portfolio with a new digital offering: Aerzen Digital Systems GmbH develops solutions in the field of digitalisation that make AERZEN standard blowers and compressors even more efficient, reliable and durable. The cloud will provide the customer with a comprehensive insight into the status of his machines. Depending on the service booked, preventive maintenance, for example, should also be made possible on the basis of appropriate analyses. Such data-based services will be designed and implemented by Aerzen Digital Systems in a cost-effective and risk-optimised way. The market launch of the digital service for the AERZEN machine park management is planned for May 2020.

Image: Lutz Geerken and Ricardo Wehrbein are Managing Directors Aerzen Digital Systems.

New Appointment in Product Management

Thomas Kuhn was appointed to the role of AERZEN Product Manager for the oil-injected screw compressors, accessories and services division on 1 February 2020. In addition to being responsible for VMX compressors, his new area of responsibility includes the higher-level AERZEN AERsmart control system, accessories (including air-to-air and water-to-air aftercoolers) and the AERaudit service.

Signing a contract with Royal Haskoning

In September 2019, AERZEN signed a contract with the new partner Royal Haskoning as an “International preferred supplier”. This offers AERZEN the opportunity to enter into aeration projects of the wastewater treatment with one of the world’s most renowned engineering companies as early as the consulting phase. Royal Haskoning also offers its customers a patented and very successful processing technology, called Nereda. With this process, a special biogranulate ensures eight times the absorption capacity of the bioorganisms. This means that wastewater treatment plants can be designed to be very space-saving, as pre- and final clarification tanks are completely unnecessary with this technology. This process can reduce investment costs by up to 40 percent. Operating costs in connection with AERZEN compressor technology and a modern aeration system can also be reduced by 50 percent.

Image: Partnership sealed (from left): Siert Wiersema (Aerzen Nederland), René Noppeney (Royal Haskoning), Markus Leidinger (AERZEN), Klaus Peter Glöckner (AERZEN), Rudger Perdon (Royal Haskoning)