Separator's Digest 2004/1 - GEA Westfalia Separator Group

First German Centrifuge Museum➤ 110 years Westfalia SeparatorAs part of the celebrations involving a family day to mark the occasion of 110 yearsof Westfalia Separator, Peter Schenk, CEO of GEA AG and chairman of the WestfaliaSeparator supervisory board, opened the first German centrifuge museum. Numerousmachines ranging from the very first milk skimming separator right through tothe latest high-tech machines demonstrate the ingenuity of our colleagues and thehistory of mechanical separation technology.The museum enables visitors to experience more than a century of centrifugal separationtechnology, and exhibits further masterpieces of engineering art, such as anantique Westfalia motorcycle. However, not only the exhibits are worthy of note.The term “Deutsches Zentrifugen Museum” (German Centrifuge Museum) has beenpatented, it is and will continue to be unique. Interested visitors, who wish tounderstand the fascination of centrifugal force, may visit the centrifuge museum inOelde and be shown around by an expert guide subject to prior notice.Vincenzo Spitaleri • Stephan SeifertNew Managing DirectorsMineral Oil SystemsAs of January 01, 2004, Stephan Seifertjoined Vincenzo Spitaleri who hasbeen Managing Director of WestfaliaSeparator Mineraloil Systems GmbHsince April 01, 2003.The address is:German Centrifuge Museum of Westfalia Separator AG,Werner-Habig-Straße 1, D-53902 Oelde.Used Machines from theManufacturer – The Best Alternative➤ Resale 2004Used machines are now accepted almost asmuch as new. Overall, the sluggish worldwideeconomic conditions have had a lessserious impact on the market for used machinesthan on other branches of industry.Used centrifuges with life-cycle benefitFor Wolfgang Horst, managing director ofWestfalia Separator ACE, “used machinesfrom the original manufacturer are the bestalternative”. ACE purchases, overhauls andsells used separators and decanters for allapplications of centrifugal technologythroughout the world. As a subsidiary ofWestfalia Separator AG, ACE supplies usedcentrifuges with a commitment to providingthe optimized life-cycle benefit of the manufacturer.“Depending on the specific requirementsand operating conditions, the user isable to choose between the quality levels’factory rebuilt’ or ’function tested’,” saysHerr Horst.In Eastern Europe, the trend is moving inthe direction of investments which makefinancial sense; the purchasers wish toacquire long-life products with trouble-freeoperation, and also expect to receive comprehensivetechnical support.Unlike newcomers, anybody who has extensiveexperience in his particular area ofbusiness will tend to choose a long-terminvestment strategy. High-value used machineswill then be preferred to cheap newproducts.Resale 2004 in KarlsruheHowever, demand for used products has fora long time not been restricted merely todeveloping countries, as indicated by a surveycarried out by the Bundesagentur fürAußenwirtschaft (bfai) in Cologne. Thereare also good opportunities for selling suchmachines in Western Europe. The next usedmachine exhibition Resale 2004 is due to beheld between 26 and 28 April 2004 inKarlsruhe. Westfalia Separator ACE will bethere.Topical9Separator´s Digest 1/2004