4 Qualities to Look for in Your Next Environmental Partner
Leave a CommentNot all environmental technology providers are created equal. How do you ensure you make the smartest choice in such a significant relationship? Start by assessing these four qualities and asking the following questions to any potential environmental technology partner.
1. Engineering Experience and Expertise

Questions to Ask:
- What is the depth of your engineers’ experience?
- How many successful installations do you have in my industry?
- Who will my project manager be, and can I meet them?
2. Quality Design and Manufacturing for System Reliability
Your selected environmental technology partner should have a proven process in place for design and manufacturing processes to ensure 
Questions to Ask:
- How is your fabrication process managed?
- What kind of Quality Assurance program is in place?
- What technology is leveraged during system design?
3. Integrated System Controls
When evaluating a potential partner, assess their in-house controls engineering capabilities and success record with integrating multiple equipment packages and process lines. Controls designs should be remotely accessible, resilient to downtime, account for safety and 
Questions to Ask:
- How do your controls ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operation?
- What is your experience integrating abatement equipment and process lines?
- What remote connection capabilities are in place?
4. Robust Aftermarket Services Department for All Makes, Models & Manufacturers
A reputable partner should have an accessible aftermarket and service department to maximize system value through preventive and 
Questions to Ask:
- Do you have a dedicated Aftermarket department?
- Do you offer 24/7 service support?
- Who will be servicing my equipment? Where are they based?
Anguil’s legacy of broad Industry Experience means our engineering experts are not pigeon-holed to a limited product portfolio to solve every application. Learn more about our System Design & Engineering capabilities and Contact Us to get started on a custom solutions specific to your application.
3 High Payback Oxidizer Retrofits for Lean Budgets
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2020 has been the year many manufacturers have had to pivot into to the unknown. Your pollution control equipment must be considered as you make key business decisions. Whatever your new business landscape, Anguil is ready to assess your current equipment, production requirements, and capacities to develop a strategy that meets your emerging business needs.
Have you had to make any of these business decisions in 2020?
- Adding new process line(s) for expanded or new product offerings
- Consolidating production plants or building new facilities
- Speeding up process lines
- Changed process inputs
In the face of uncertainty and rapid change, strategic investment in your existing pollution control systems can keep you in compliance and offer opportunities for rapid return on investment (ROI). Instead of a new capital equipment purchase, consider retrofitting your existing equipment to fit tight timelines and lean budgets.
Here are three high payback equipment retrofits to consider.
Increase Capacity to Accommodate Production Changes
Add more flow to your existing oxidizer.
Anguil makes it easy to reimagine the possibilities of your pollution abatement equipment. If you have had to expand or consolidate production lines, you can retrofit your existing equipment to treat additional flow.
How to Evaluate Capacity Changes
Is the new flow over capacity of existing unit?
When evaluating capacity modifications, start by determining your current state and comparing it with the future.
- Confirm existing flow, VOC loading, and temperature to oxidizer
- Confirm new flow, VOC loading, and temperature to oxidizer
Can modifications be made to the existing unit to increase capacity?
Most of the time, the answer is yes. Review the VOC loading and confirm it does not exceed capacity of the unit type. Anguil’s engineering experts can help you confirm your capacity modification possibilities.
What components need to be upgraded to increase RTO capacity?
Once your capacity parameters are determined, several components need to be evaluated to accommodate the flow expansion.
- Upsize the Burner: Review burner system, fuel train, SFI
- Change Media Design: Review media bed design – size, depth, type of media, velocity, TER, and pressure drop, residence time
- Upsize Fan: Review fan/VFD sizing – flow, temp and pressure rating
- Add an Emission Concentrator: Reduce the flow to your oxidizer by concentrating large flows of low concentration air upstream of the inlet
Reduce Downtime with Controls Upgrades + Strategic Spares Management
Prepare for the unexpected with modern controls and critical spares
Like an insurance policy, the savviest oxidizer operators invest great care in preventive safeguards for resiliency in the face of unexpected downtime. Two high impact, low effort investments you can make to reduce downtime are oxidizer controls upgrades and strategically stocking your spare parts inventory.
Controls Upgrades
Because your oxidizer controls will generally function without incident even with older software and hardware, you may not consider them an upgrade or replacement priority. That is, until you experience a lengthy downtime due to a PLC crash or not having spares for an obsolete system.
Anguil has extensive experience consulting with operators on their oxidizer controls needs and developing custom solutions to prevent unplanned downtime, safety and compliance risks, and obsolete part headaches.
Are you ordering replacement control panel parts from Ebay? Or struggling to find support for your obsolete control components?
While obsolete parts may function, they expose you to many risks ranging from lengthy downtime to lack of service support. Because
Answer: Anguil Aftermarket can help identify which components are slated to be discontinued by completing a Controls Review of your current installed components and make Controls Upgrade recommendations
Is your PLC or HMI exhibiting signs of vulnerability, such as program loss or failure?
A failed display can leave you blind when it comes to operating your oxidizer system safely. If this happens at an inopportune moment, you want to be prepared to download your HMI program to a replacement display from your spare parts inventory.
Answer: Anguil Aftermarket can perform PLC Upgrades, even if source code is unavailable. Our electrical and field service engineers will specify, supply, and install replacement hardware and supply and commission new software.
Are your oxidizer controls upholding your safety commitment?
Even if your system is using aging or obsolete components without issue, your system may not be meeting modern safety standards.
Answer: Anguil Aftermarket can review your program logic, make Operational Efficiency and Safety Improvements, and develop a custom solution.
Do you wish you had clearer insight into the workings of your oxidizer’s PLC? What if your oxidizer’s controls could be e
Hardware improvements such as a Human Machine Interface (HMI) Upgrade can provide better system control and visibility on machine operation and troubleshooting via improved graphics and diagnostics.
Answer: Anguil Aftermarket employs a user-friendly 10” HMI option that provides easy operation with a graphical overview with process values, loop bar graphs, trends, and I/O and purge interlock status. Additional upgrades such as Digital Chart Recorders and Remote Ethernet Access can unlock the full potential of modern oxidizer control technology.
Stocking Your Spare Parts Inventory
Why does my oxidizer spare parts program deserve significant attention?
- Uptime – The downtime associated with a system upset can be dramatically reduced if the right parts are immediately available on site.
- Compliance – Stocking an appropriate level of spare parts for your oxidizer system may be required by your envir
onmental permit.
- Preparedness – Making the decision to have a well-stocked spare parts inventory could be the difference between having the needed component available in your stockroom to get your system quickly back online versus lengthy downtime, lost production revenue, and plant headache.
- Mission – Stocking an appropriate level of spare parts for your system is a vital step in a long-term commitment of environmental compliance.
How Does Anguil Determine my Recommended Spare Parts List?
Using your system process and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) and bill of materials (BOM), Anguil’s Aftermarket Experts can design a custom-tailored recommended Critical Spare Parts Package for you. Yes, we can do this for any oxidizer system regardless of manufacturer! Plus, we can supply parts for your ancillary equipment including scrubbers, concentrator wheels, and dust collectors. We tag each system component as falling into one of four categories: CRITICAL, RECOMMENDED, CONVENIENCE, and WHEN NEEDED.
| Level | Description | Examples |
| Convenience | Consumables not critical to system operation | Filter elements, door gasket |
| Critical | High-use and high-wear parts that are vital to system operation, parts that may have a long lead-time | Actuators, poppet valve components, thermocouples, flow sensors, and spark igniters |
| Recommended | These items are not typically known to fail; however, they cannot safely be bypassed if they do | Air proving switches, PLC components, and fuel train components |
| When Needed | Parts that are unlikely to fail or not generally critical to system operation | Burners, gauges, and flex joints |
What is a Critical Spare Parts Package?
A critical spare parts package bundles the most critical spare components for your system at a discounted price.
Why should I consider a Critical Spare Parts Package?
This convenient package takes the guesswork out of ordering spare parts and saves you money. In addition to meeting compliance requirements and strengthening your downtime firewall, we discount this package over the cost of ordering individual parts.
Why order spare parts through Anguil?
Anguil can simplify your parts procurement process. We know your system, so let us quickly get you the parts you need. If we don’t know your system, our engineering experts can quickly assess your system and determine your parts needs. Anguil has an expansive network of vendor relationships and enjoys priority service and advantageous pricing that we pass on to you.
Increase Thermal Energy Recovery (TER) for High Impact ROI
Improving TER with a media upgrade
Considering some enhancements to your RTO? Your RTO’s media is a key target area for high return on investment (ROI). Many operators consider media replacements primarily out of necessity due to plugging, but a lot of potential upside may be available by focusing on your media’s TER performance. Consider this:
- Up until recently, most RTOs were designed with 95% Thermal Energy Recovery (TER%) or less.
- Rule of Thumb for a self-check: If the average RTO outlet temperature is more than 100°F higher than the RTO inlet temperature, your actual TER% is probably less than 95%.
- Even a small increase in TER% can have a dramatic effect on RTO fuel usage. In some cases, a bump in TER% could eliminate RTO fuel use entirely.
- Advances in ceramic media have allowed Anguil to improve TER% in RTOs by only replacing a portion of the existing ceramic media beds, improving payback periods.
- Anguil has performed this retrofit on numerous RTOs, regardless of original manufacturer, and we offer free Savings Cost Analysis making it easy to get started.
How to Evaluate a Media Design Change
What is my current media design?
Start by determining your current state and comparing it with available possibilities. When evaluating your current media bed design, take note of the following:
- Type of media
- Bed dimensions
- Available space
What is my current media performance?
Next, determine your current process conditions to calculate your media’s current performance.
- Airflow
- Inlet temp
- VOC loading
- Combustion air from burner
- Current fan sizing and speed
What are my new design possibilities?
Look at different media suppliers and what designs are available. Important parameters to keep in mind
- Pressure drop across media beds – will it impact fan speed and possibly sizing?
- Total flow that needs to be treated – will it impact pressure drop and velocity through media?
How much savings can I expect?
The cost of your media retrofit versus your projected fuel savings will determine your ROI. For a free assessment and consultation, complete our Savings Cost Analysis. Upon submittal, an Anguil Aftermarket expert will contact you for a follow-up consultation.
As a custom solutions provider, Anguil’s team of experienced engineers will partner with you to understand your system, regardless of make, model, configuration, or manufacturer, tailoring your retrofit project to maximize system performance. Contact us to get started on your high impact retrofit project.
Addressing India’s Air Pollution Control Needs
Leave a CommentIn response to increased demand for its environmental technologies and services, Anguil Environmental Systems Inc. (Anguil) is 
Anguil has been serving the global air pollution control market since 1978. With well-established partners already in place and several successful installations throughout India, company executives felt the time was right. “Forming a subsidiary of the United States parent has always been part of the company’s overall international strategy” said Chris Anguil, President of Anguil Environmental. “After successfully penetrating the European and Asian markets, we knew India was a priority given the growing demand for pollution control solutions.”
Having an established company in the local market allows Anguil technologies to be manufactured utilizing local resources while avoiding substantial international freight costs and duties. Customers can expect a responsive, single source provider for their specific pollution control needs. With a dedicated local team of technical sales, engineering, and service resources at the ground level, the company seeks to serve the nation with the best technology at affordable price.
Make sure to visit our company directory to contact our team in India or see a list of all Anguil locations.
Company Commitment During COVID-19
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As the world continues to grapple with this pandemic, many federal and state agencies are imposing shelter in place restrictions to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. We understand that many of our customers are considered essential businesses in critical infrastructure industries such as Chemical, Defense, Industrial, Energy, and Transportation, and therefore cannot cease operations.
Our number one priority will remain the health and well-being of our team, while doing whatever possible to service our customers, their facilities and production. We are dedicated to remaining flexible in our approach and adjusting accordingly to keep them operational.
- Our entire service team and support staff remains healthy and is setup online, ready to assist you via remote connection or teleconferencing. For customers requiring onsite services, we are investigating each situation on a case-by-case basis so please contact our service department.
- As a provider to critical business sectors we will continue to operate all of our fabrication facilities including those locations where the population has been placed under a ‘stay at home’ order. Anguil fabrication facilities will remain open as long as possible for any emergency fabrication needs while trying to maintain production schedules.
- We have implemented a work from home policy for all non-essential employees in Accounting, Administration, Purchasing, Sales and Marketing. All individuals in these departments can be reached via phone or email.
- Our purchasing department is maintaining constant contact with our major supply chain partners to ensure the continued flow of products and services.
For 40 years and counting, Anguil has taken on complex environmental challenges and stood strong for our customer. That will not change in the face of these unprecedented times.
Should you have any questions, please call the corporate office (800-488-0230). This is a very fluid situation so please revisit this page for future updates.
Chris Anguil, President-Anguil Environmental Systems
Federal Environmental Advisory Committee Appoints Kevin Summ
Leave a CommentAnguil Environmental is very proud to announce that our Director of Marketing, Kevin Summ, was recently selected by the Secretary of Commerce to serve on the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) for a second two-year term. Under the guidance of the United States Department of Commerce, Kevin and his fellow committee members will advise government officials on environmental technologies, trends, policies and markets to improve our nations’ reputation as an international leader.

“Being one of only forty people appointed to ETTAC speaks to Kevin’s experience with the promotion of sound environmental technologies and his dedication to protecting our environment.” said Chris Anguil, President of Anguil Environmental Systems. “As a company, we are happy to sponsor Kevin’s involvement in ETTAC as their mission coincides with Anguil’s pledge to provide environmental and energy solutions that ensure cleaner air and water for future generations.”
More information on committee members and the 2018-2020 and 2020-2022 charters can be found on the International Trade Administration website: https://www.export.gov/ettac
The ETTAC welcomes comments and suggestions from the public. If you wish to make a comment for consideration by the Committee, or for information about previous ETTAC charters, please contact Victoria Yue at victoria.yue@trade.gov.
New Trends In Industrial Pollution Control
Leave a CommentIf you have both air and water pollution control needs, how do you know that your treatment approach is optimizing performance and operating costs? As you undertake pollution abatement projects, how can you really be sure that you’re protected against creeping project costs, missing compliance requirements, and project management headaches?
An integrated approach to industrial air and water pollution abatement is gaining traction as an optimal solution, with many benefits including one point of contact, reduced project administration and a holistic solution. However, finding and leveraging a provider with sufficient expertise across both sectors is challenging, if not nearly impossible.
This discussion will examine industrial pollution control trends through the lens of a single source air and water solutions provider, offering insight into avoiding abatement project pitfalls and how an integrated approach can save you time, money, and hassles.
Click here to register for the live event, or view on demand, the interview with Tim Hermes of Environmental Leader and Anguil Environmental Systems.
Anguil Celebrates a Major Milestone
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Approximately four-hundred people are expected at the Sunday evening party. Guests will consist of employees, both current and former, as well as partners, key suppliers, sales representatives and close family friends. “It’s important that we recognize the people and companies that helped us get where we are today,” said Gene. “While my wife was our first, and arguably most-important employee, there were also a lot of other vital contributors to our success.”
The night will include a multimedia presentation focused on Anguil’s Recipe for Success: Vision, Expertise, Leadership, Employees, Resilience, Fun, Community, and Family. Dinner and dancing will follow a series of speeches by key Anguil personnel. According to Chris Anguil, son of Gene and President of the company, “August 12th also happens to be Gene’s 80th birthday, so there may be some surprises”.
Throughout the past four decades, the company has celebrated countless successes, but also persevered through some challenges. Major milestones include several moves into increasingly larger facilities, the establishment of international operations, development of an extensive global sales representative network, and a continuous garnering of awards like the employee-driven Top Workplace distinction and the Environmental Business Journal Achievement Award. The tragic passing of Gene’s oldest son Jeff in 1993, then company President, was one of those challenging moments that tested the company’s resiliency while cementing the family culture that still exists today.
The 40th anniversary celebration comes at a time of widespread enthusiasm for the company’s mission and steady growth, including the hiring of several third generation Anguil employees, aggressive global sales targets, and the completion of a remodel of their corporate headquarters in Brown Deer. This investment buoys the optimism of employees and the surrounding community, looking ahead to many more years of success.
About Anguil Environmental Systems, Incorporated: Anguil provides environmental and energy solutions that ensure cleaner air and water for future generations. Company values include a commitment to customer satisfaction, high integrity, family culture, continuous improvement, a passion for excellence and organizational growth. The company is uniquely capable of supplying integrated air and water treatment solutions to the global manufacturing sector and industrial markets for environmental compliance.
On vapor combustion applications, Anguil has over four decades of experience with the design, manufacturing, service and installation of thermal and catalytic oxidizers for the destruction of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), process odors and Nitrous Oxides (NOX). Anguil also specializes in energy recovery systems that reduce a company’s operating costs, lower their carbon footprint and decrease energy consumption by utilizing waste heat from manufacturing processes.
On the water side, Anguil Aqua provides turnkey water treatment systems that target solid or liquid pollutants from industrial and remediation applications. As a custom solution company, they can integrate a range of technologies with proven techniques to meet specific site challenges.
Carbon Fiber Market Drives Strong Sales
Leave a CommentDecember 31st, 2017 / MILWAUKEE, WI: Anguil recently received the largest order in company history in the carbon fiber market, which reflects industry confidence in their state-of-the-art technical advances revolutionizing carbon fiber emissions treatment. Anguil’s air pollution abatement systems offer the industry’s most advanced technology for meeting the toughest environmental regulatory standards in the world for controlling air emissions from oxidation ovens and LT/HT carbonization furnaces.
The integrated systems draw upon an enhanced design that help customers in the industry achieve more productive operations, providing significant operating efficiency by reducing energy consumption of typical process equipment by 17%. Rich Grzanka, Vice President of Anguil, focuses on sales of carbon fiber equipment and explained the company’s market success: “Tightening of environmental air emission regulations around the world have combined with increased demand for lightweight, yet strong materials like carbon fiber, used in the manufacturing of more efficient aircraft and automobiles, to drive growth in this industry and our business.”
Anguil specializes in providing a seamless integrated systems approach to air pollution control for carbon fiber production facilities considering a three-prong approach:
- Process Emissions – Oxidation Ovens & Carbonization Furnaces; Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN), Ammonia (NH3), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Tar, Silica
- Abatement Equipment – Regenerative Thermal Oxidisers (RTOs), Multi Staged Direct Fired Thermal Oxidisers (MS-DFTO), Secondary Heat Recovery, Particulate Control
- Operational & Maintenance Considerations – Designed to Maximize Up Time, Energy Efficiency and Heat Return to Process. Minimize Maintenance Time & Costs.
Anguil celebrated record-breaking sales in 2017, with the carbon fiber market playing an integral role in their success and strengthening reputation worldwide. In 2018, Anguil will continue to focus on the carbon fiber market, demonstrating their long-term commitment to developing state-of-the-art technical advances for the carbon fiber industry. Anguil representatives will be in Paris from March 6th – 8th exhibiting at JEC World 2018, a trade show uniting the global carbon fiber and composites industry. Anguil team members will be on hand throughout the conference at booth R31f to explain how their energy-efficient oxidizer systems are revolutionizing the industry and why they have the highest environmental performance on record.
Anguil Environmental Systems Receives 2017 EBJ Business Achievement Award
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“In what is widely regarded as a stable market, a number of companies exceeded the norms of low single-digit growth with double-digit growth or ambitious ventures into new practice areas or technology development,” said Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International Inc. (EBI, San Diego), publisher of Environmental Business Journal.
Anguil’s EBJ award distinction joins several other major recognitions including: Four-time “Future 50” award winner, two-time winner of WI Exporter of the Year, three-time winner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Top Workplaces awards, recognition by the US Chamber of Commerce as “One of the best managed companies in America,” and honored by the Small Business Association with the Jeffrey Butland Family Business Award.
The 2017 EBJ awards will be presented at a special ceremony at the Environmental Industry Summit XVI in San Diego, Calif. on March 21, 2018. The Environmental Industry Summit is an annual three-day executive retreat hosted by EBI, Inc. and 2020 Environmental Group.
Anguil Announces Record Sales Month in December of 2017
Leave a CommentMILWAUKEE, WI: Anguil Environmental Systems, a family-owned air and water pollution control equipment supplier, closed out their sales year with a bang, announcing record breaking sales in the month of December, shattering their annual sales goals. In one week alone, they received four orders for eight systems from around the world totaling over $20,000,000 in bookings. The orders were unique in their geographic breadth, diversity of technologies, and scope of the various applications, spanning the carbon fiber, composites, converting, and semiconductor/chip manufacturing industries, underscoring the company’s versatility and adoption to global market demands. The technologies ordered included systems processing emissions ranging from 5,000 SCFM up to 200,000 SCFM and span their product offerings, including Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTOs), a multi-stage Direct-fired Thermal Oxidizer (DFTO), rotor concentrators coupled with Thermal Recuperative oxidizers, and heat exchanger systems. All of the orders were placed by existing customers, demonstrating the strength of Anguil’s brand reputation and enduring trust in their pollution control solutions. Anguil is celebrating 40 years in business in 2018.
Of the company’s recent success, President Chris Anguil said, “While these orders all came in one week, they reflect months, even years, of hard work and dedication to finding the best solutions for our customers. We pride ourselves on the consistent level of service we provide, and this shows our efforts pay off.”
These orders are a part of a larger trend of strong sales across all of Anguil’s product lines in December. Over $900,000 in aftermarket orders were booked. In addition, almost $1,000,000 in sales were booked for the new Anguil Aqua product line, which specializes in the treatment of industrial wastewater.
Anguil Environmental is an air pollution control, water treatment and energy recovery system provider to manufacturers for industrial applications. Over the past four decades, Anguil has developed a breadth of abatement technologies that control harmful and regulated Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), process odors, Nitrogen Oxides (NOX) and various water contaminants.
As a custom solution company, Anguil is uniquely capable of supplying and servicing integrated air and water treatment solutions to meet specific site challenges. The company is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin U.S.A. with offices in Europe and Asia as well as an extensive network of agents located domestically and throughout the world. Anguil’s mission is to provide pollution control solutions today to help its customers remain profitable tomorrow.


onmental permit.