SiccaDania acquires ACO

By Jim Cornall

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By combining with ACO, SiccaDania said its engineers, fabricators and installation specialists will be able to work with clients from design through to fabrication and installation.
By combining with ACO, SiccaDania said its engineers, fabricators and installation specialists will be able to work with clients from design through to fabrication and installation.
Danish company SiccaDania has acquired ACO-Service and ACO-Engineering activities.

SiccaDania, established in 2014, is a provider of evaporators and dryers for food, dairy and starch applications globally.

Fellow Danish company ACO specializes in manufacturing components for spray dryers, Zeta Dryers, fluid beds, ducts, air intake systems, tubular evaporators and many other engineered stainless steel thin plate constructions.

Soren Rasmussen, SiccaDania president, said the acquisition is a very important milestone in the development of SiccaDania as a supplier of process equipment solutions to the global dairy industry.

Through the deal, SiccaDania gains control over important value chain elements such as manufacturing and installation of the solutions supplied to its customers.

The company said many providers do not have the in-house capability to provide manufacturing and installation services.

Design to installation

With more than 2,000 spray dryer installations worldwide for suppliers such as GEA, SiccaDania said ACO is the most experienced company in the world in its field.

ACO

By combining with ACO, SiccaDania said its engineers, fabricators and installation specialists will be able to work with clients from the design stage through to fabrication and installation.

“With the expertise gained through ACO, SiccaDania has now established an After-Market Division – a separate group focused on the rebuilding and optimization of existing dryers, evaporators and other food processing equipment,”​ Rasmussen said.

“This division is led by René Hansen, former owner of ACO. The entire ACO management team continues with SiccaDania and they will all play important roles in the continued development of [the company]."

UHT technology

The SiccaDania organization employs more than 300 people and has offices in Singapore, China and New Zealand.

SiccaDania has also established separate companies within membrane filtration, UHT and mixing technologies. It supplies individual dryers, evaporators and other process units to customers worldwide. The company also supplies complete turnkey processing plants for dairy and starch applications.

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