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Sweco - Separators, Solid Separation, and Separation Technology

Corporate description
For more than 60 years, Sweco® has been on the leading edge of separation technology. As a business unit of M-I L.L.C., Sweco has the ability and strength of global corporation to take care of its customers anywhere in the world.

Markets served
Sweco serves the food, chemical, pharmaceutical, paper, and many other industries with their wide array of products, each tailored with precise specifications for the individual customer.

Technologies
Sweco has the ability to separate particle sizes from 3 to 2000 µm, depending on your application. Sweco’s use of high-speed vibration, ultrasonics, centrifugal machinery, and systems technologies enables it to effectively perform these particle processes.

Technical services
The most predominant service Sweco offers is in the field of service engineers, who on average maintain more than 20 years of experience. Sweco also offers its customers the convenience of field tests as well as on-site testing laboratories in Kentucky, Belgium, and Singapore, where full- scale tests can be run. Sweco has also developed a MicroLab in Kentucky for small-scale testing. In addition, Sweco offers a completely equipped centrifuge trailer to perform full scale on-site centrifuge performance demonstrations at a customer’s plant or waste treatment site.

Facilities
In addition to its world headquarters in Florence, Kentucky, Sweco has manufacturing facilities in Macon, Georgia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Nivelles, Belgium; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Singapore; a joint venture, Swequipos, in Mexico; and a licensee, Lockers, in Australia. In addition, sales offices have been established in Bombay, India and Bogotá, Colombia. Our sales force is one of the largest in the industry with representative offices in practically every major city in the world (40 – North America; 8 – South America.; 43 – Europe; 13 – Asia).

Major products
Sweco offers a full line of separation equipment, including the Vibro-Energy® Round Separator, Full-Flow™ Rectangular Separator, Centrifuge and Treatment Services Equipment, Turbo-Screen® Air Classifier, White Water Filter, and Centrifugal Sifter, as well as grinding and finishing mills. Sweco also offers a complete line of aftermarket parts and screens, including screen innovations such as the Supertaut Plus screen designed with a pure white adherent which applies FDA approved chemistry with the durability to withstand caustic and steam cleaning, and severe environments. Other screening innovations include Sweco’s Sanitary Screen and Magnum Screen technology. The Sanitary Screen utilizes a silicone substitute adhesive for screens used in any USDA and other sanitary applications. The Magnum Screen was developed for increased strength, significantly improving screen life over traditional designs.

As a world leader, Sweco has worked hard to develop new products and technologies to help its customers. In the past few years, Sweco has developed the latest innovations in the industry, including the Non-Vibrating QuickChange™ Separator, which significantly reduces downtime in changing screens; the Sono-Energy™ System, which imparts ultrasonic vibration to the screen surface, creating an anti-blinding action; the PSI, a reliable pressure sifter; the Avalanche™ Separator, which increases capacity by as much as 67% with the same footprint as a standard size round separator; and the PharmASep™, a revolutionary design for critical pharmaceutical and specialty chemical separation requirements. Sweco has also expanded its product line to include decanting centrifuges and waste treatment services using field-proven technologies from our parent company.

Sweco
A Business Unit of M-I L.L.C.
8029 U.S. Highway 25
Florence, KY 41042
USA

http://www.sweco.com

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