Happy 100th Anniversary, Buss-SMS-Canzler!
Buss-SMS-Canzler (SMS) is one of the leading international suppliers of solutions for the thermal separation of mixtures which are difficult to handle. Listening closely to its clients’ needs around the world, it offers adapted, efficient and highly innovative. With its plants, systems and constantly reconceptualised solutions, SMS has been setting standards in thermal separation technology for a century.
A Century of Innovations
SMS is the fusion of three companies which all had their core competences in process engineering and sophisticated process equipment fabrication. The last addition happened in 2003. Buss-SMS expanded its existing thermal separation operations through the acquisition of two business units from Canzler. It then became Buss-SMS-Canzler.
SMS has evolved decade after decade to adapt to a constantly changing business environment. Indeed, the German company had to face many challenges, such as the extinction of steam locomotives, the end of the nuclear power plant era and the increasing importance of sustainability in production processes. However, the enterprise does not see change as a threat but as an opportunity to improve. In its 100th anniversary communiqué, SMS explains the secret of its longevity by not remaining “stuck in the past but to continue to advance and break new grounds.”
Since its foundation in 1919, the company has achieved an impressive series of technological milestones. It received several patents, for instance in 1931, for the invention of the welded double jacket with projection welding.
More recently, in 2014, the first horizontal thin film dryers with a heating surface of 125 m² were manufactured and delivered to China for sewage sludge drying. They are the largest thin film dryers worldwide. This year, SMS received the largest order in its history: ten horizontal thin film dryers and ten linear dryers for a sewage sludge drying plant in Shanghai, sold for 20.5 million euros.
The Employees’ Expertise
The core secret of the company's success is its staff. SMS counts around 250 highly qualified and motivated employees.
Many of them, and SMS is particularly proud of this fact, joined at an early age, either to complete a vocational training or to start a career.
Al Mazroui Engineering is the exclusive agent of SMS in the UAE and the Middle East. Part of the Al Mazroui Group, the engineering company is acclaimed for being one of the region’s most reputable suppliers with a range of state-of-the-art products and great management skills. It delivers services in different fields such as oil and gas, power and energy plants and petroleum refining.
A Century of Innovations
SMS is the fusion of three companies which all had their core competences in process engineering and sophisticated process equipment fabrication. The last addition happened in 2003. Buss-SMS expanded its existing thermal separation operations through the acquisition of two business units from Canzler. It then became Buss-SMS-Canzler.
SMS has evolved decade after decade to adapt to a constantly changing business environment. Indeed, the German company had to face many challenges, such as the extinction of steam locomotives, the end of the nuclear power plant era and the increasing importance of sustainability in production processes. However, the enterprise does not see change as a threat but as an opportunity to improve. In its 100th anniversary communiqué, SMS explains the secret of its longevity by not remaining “stuck in the past but to continue to advance and break new grounds.”
Since its foundation in 1919, the company has achieved an impressive series of technological milestones. It received several patents, for instance in 1931, for the invention of the welded double jacket with projection welding.
More recently, in 2014, the first horizontal thin film dryers with a heating surface of 125 m² were manufactured and delivered to China for sewage sludge drying. They are the largest thin film dryers worldwide. This year, SMS received the largest order in its history: ten horizontal thin film dryers and ten linear dryers for a sewage sludge drying plant in Shanghai, sold for 20.5 million euros.
The Employees’ Expertise
The core secret of the company's success is its staff. SMS counts around 250 highly qualified and motivated employees.
- · 15% are master craftsmen and technicians,
- · 55% have completed vocational training
- · 30% have a graduate degree, some a PhD.
Many of them, and SMS is particularly proud of this fact, joined at an early age, either to complete a vocational training or to start a career.
Al Mazroui Engineering is the exclusive agent of SMS in the UAE and the Middle East. Part of the Al Mazroui Group, the engineering company is acclaimed for being one of the region’s most reputable suppliers with a range of state-of-the-art products and great management skills. It delivers services in different fields such as oil and gas, power and energy plants and petroleum refining.
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