On January 19, 2022, Aerzen USA announced the acquisition of Vooner FloGard® Corporation, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with manufacturing operations in Greeneville, Tennessee. Vooner is a premier manufacturer of vacuum pumps and vacuum system components.
“The acquisition of Vooner increases Aerzen USA’s capabilities and application knowledge and provides us with greater access into some of our core markets of paper, food, power, mining, and chemical,” states Aerzen USA President Tony Morris.
The newly formed company will operate under the name Vooner FloGard LLC. The most important market for AERZEN in which Vooner operates is the pulp and paper market in the USA, as AERZEN can offer many water treatment solutions here. Vooner also exports in the pulp and paper sector to Sweden, Finland and various countries in South America. Vooner FloGard has over three decades of experience with corrosion and erosion-resistant vacuum pump applications, including patented vacuum pump designs and vacuum system engineering capabilities. Additionally, Vooner is an OEM for complete vacuum systems for slurry dewatering, evaporation, pneumatic conveying, condenser exhauster, and felt cleaning in paper mills generating aftermarket business of actuators and sales opportunities for long term low-cost vacuum pumps.
