New Partnership Spans the Ocean

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PartnerSeptember 9th, 2008

Two capital equipment suppliers are announcing a partnership that will provide industrial facilities a single source solution for their dryer, oven and air pollution control needs. Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc., a United States based oxidizer manufacturer, and Spooner Industries, a convection dryer supplier located in the United Kingdom have partnered to better serve each of their respective markets and regions.

After working together on multiple turnkey projects, the two companies have decided to make their partnership official. Anguil Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTOs), as well as Direct-Fired, Catalytic and Thermal Recuperative oxidizers are used for the destruction of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), NOX and odorous air emissions often generated from the drying and curing equipment manufactured by Spooner. By combining the complimentary product lines, customers and prospects can get a complete turnkey solution for their industrial drying, curing, coating and air pollution control needs. In addition, the Anguil Heat and Energy Recovery products can be applied on these industrial systems to reduce operating costs and energy consumption.

Under the new agreement, Spooner Industries will fabricate and install the Anguil oxidizer designs on air pollution control applications throughout Europe. They will work exclusively together for the supply of oxidizers for European converting, coating and printing operations. The systems will incorporate the established, proven designs of Anguil Environmental and the quality, dependable fabrication of Spooner Industries. Spooner’s new 60,000 square foot facility will be the primary manufacturing location for Anguil oxidizer systems going into Eastern and Western Europe. The local UK fabrication capability will allow Anguil to serve the European region without expensive transportation costs.

In the United States and North America, existing Spooner customers will now have the assurance of working with a dryer company that has local air pollution control and energy recovery capabilities. Anguil’s extensive service capabilities will also be utilized in America for Spooner customers with emergency or long-term service needs. In addition, Anguil customers with dryer and coating systems will have the experience of Spooner’s technologies through Anguil.

Both Spooner and Anguil are long standing companies with excellent reputations, having been in business since 1932 and 1978, respectively. “We are extremely excited about this new partnership” says Gene Anguil, CEO of Anguil “Not only are our product offerings complimentary but our firms have a similar philosophy and focus with custom engineered industrial systems”. Steve Newell, Sales & Marketing Director at Spooner Industries agrees “This partnership with Anguil fits extremely well with Spooner in terms of technology, markets and culture. The disciplines involved with these units are very similar to our core competence”

For more information visit www.spooner-environment.com

Anguil Named the Midwest’s Exporter of the Year!

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Anguil is Honored for Export Excellence by the SBA for both the State of Wisconsin and Midwest Region.

Anguil Environmental Systems Inc. has been honored for the second year in a row with the 2007 Small Industrial Exporter Award for the state of Wisconsin. Anguil was one of nine Wisconsin companies that received the Governor’s Export Achievement Award from the offices of Governor Jim Doyle.

The Small Business Administration also recognized the company with a Regional award for Industrial Exporter of 2007 and Anguil is now being considered on the National level.

The Wisconsin International Trade Conference is the largest gathering of international trade professionals in the state. The award criteria included the degree of export-related growth; innovative techniques and approaches that resulted in the company’s success; and demonstration of extra effort in capturing worldwide markets. Anguil is extremely honored to receive the acknowledgement in the Small Industrial Exporter Category and expects to see continued success overseas in the upcoming years.

“Wisconsin exports have shown four straight years of incredibly strong growth, and our growth continues to surpass that of the nation,” Doyle said in a statement.

Milwaukee Paper Highlights Anguil’s Growth

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Clearer skies overseas;
Anguil Environmental finds niche in global air pollution control

By RICK BARRETT rbarrett@journalsentinel.com

At a time when many Wisconsin companies are alarmed about business and technology being exported to Asia, a small Brown Deer firm is proving that it can compete overseas through contracts in Taiwan, Korea and China.

With only about 35 employees, Anguil Environmental Systems Inc. has become a global player in its field of designing and installing air pollution control equipment. About 25% of the company’s $20 million in annual sales comes from overseas business, including contracts from large conglomerates such as Hyundai Motor Co.

In December, Anguil landed three Asian orders to provide air pollution control equipment for Formosa Chemical Co. in Taiwan. The orders, totaling just under $4 million, followed a $1.5 million order from Hyundai for equipment at one of the Korean company’s plants in China. A weak U.S. dollar and strong economies in various regions of the world have helped American companies get overseas business, said Gene Anguil, founder and chairman of Anguil Environmental Systems.

“Exporters can do much better,” he said. “In some cases it’s cheaper to build something here and ship it overseas,” than to have the same product built in another country that’s closer to the end user.

Anguil designs and installs oxidizers, which look like large metal boxes perched atop the roofs of factories and printing companies. Pollutants that are emitted during manufacturing are channeled into the oxidizer, which uses heat to destroy the chemicals and convert them into carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Anguil has installed about 1,500 pollution control systems around the world, with its key markets being the United States, Taiwan and Europe.

The company has sold equipment in Taiwan for about 10 years, largely because that country has some of the strictest environmental standards in Asia.

The migration of international companies into China has helped Anguil’s sales, since the multinational organizations are already familiar
with pollution control requirements in their home countries.

“When these large companies establish plants in China, they don’t want to be perceived as having one set of environmental standards at home and another set of (weaker) standards for China,” Anguil said. “So that’s been a driver” of sales.

China has a pressing need for pollution control equipment. It has some of the world’s dirtiest air and is trying to clean things up in a short period of time, partly to gain acceptance by the international political community and the World Trade Organization.

Not all developing nations are trying as hard to improve the environment. Often there’s a constant battle between the economy and the environment, with clean air losing out to factories that produce jobs and contribute to a country’s economic growth.

“I think that will always be the situation,” Anguil said. “Even in this country, when the economy is not that good and our federal government is not that strong on the environment, we see companies dragging their feet for years” on installing pollution control equipment.

Anguil designs its own equipment, and company officials say aspects of the designs are sophisticated enough that it’s difficult for foreign competitors to copy them.

“We recognize the risk is there,” Anguil said. But companies that need pollution control systems usually don’t want to risk buying imitation systems, only to find out they weren’t effective and resulted in millions of dollars in air pollution fines.

Emphasis on engineering and problem solving can give U.S. companies a competitive edge, said Dale Wiza, chairman of the Milwaukee chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

“There are things that can’t easily be copied,” he said.

Milwaukee Paper Highlights Anguil’s Growth

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Clearer skies overseas;
Anguil Environmental finds niche in global air pollution control

By RICK BARRETT rbarrett@journalsentinel.com

At a time when many Wisconsin companies are alarmed about business and technology being exported to Asia, a small Brown Deer firm is proving that it can compete overseas through contracts in Taiwan, Korea and China.

With only about 35 employees, Anguil Environmental Systems Inc. has become a global player in its field of designing and installing air pollution control equipment. About 25% of the company’s $20 million in annual sales comes from overseas business, including contracts from large conglomerates such as Hyundai Motor Co.

In December, Anguil landed three Asian orders to provide air pollution control equipment for Formosa Chemical Co. in Taiwan. The orders, totaling just under $4 million, followed a $1.5 million order from Hyundai for equipment at one of the Korean company’s plants in China. A weak U.S. dollar and strong economies in various regions of the world have helped American companies get overseas business, said Gene Anguil, founder and chairman of Anguil Environmental Systems.

“Exporters can do much better,” he said. “In some cases it’s cheaper to build something here and ship it overseas,” than to have the same product built in another country that’s closer to the end user.

Anguil designs and installs oxidizers, which look like large metal boxes perched atop the roofs of factories and printing companies. Pollutants that are emitted during manufacturing are channeled into the oxidizer, which uses heat to destroy the chemicals and convert them into carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Anguil has installed about 1,500 pollution control systems around the world, with its key markets being the United States, Taiwan and Europe.

The company has sold equipment in Taiwan for about 10 years, largely because that country has some of the strictest environmental standards in Asia.

The migration of international companies into China has helped Anguil’s sales, since the multinational organizations are already familiar
with pollution control requirements in their home countries.

“When these large companies establish plants in China, they don’t want to be perceived as having one set of environmental standards at home and another set of (weaker) standards for China,” Anguil said. “So that’s been a driver” of sales.

China has a pressing need for pollution control equipment. It has some of the world’s dirtiest air and is trying to clean things up in a short period of time, partly to gain acceptance by the international political community and the World Trade Organization.

Not all developing nations are trying as hard to improve the environment. Often there’s a constant battle between the economy and the environment, with clean air losing out to factories that produce jobs and contribute to a country’s economic growth.

“I think that will always be the situation,” Anguil said. “Even in this country, when the economy is not that good and our federal government is not that strong on the environment, we see companies dragging their feet for years” on installing pollution control equipment.

Anguil designs its own equipment, and company officials say aspects of the designs are sophisticated enough that it’s difficult for foreign competitors to copy them.

“We recognize the risk is there,” Anguil said. But companies that need pollution control systems usually don’t want to risk buying imitation systems, only to find out they weren’t effective and resulted in millions of dollars in air pollution fines.

Emphasis on engineering and problem solving can give U.S. companies a competitive edge, said Dale Wiza, chairman of the Milwaukee chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

“There are things that can’t easily be copied,” he said.