Pneumofore has reported another successful year, with turnover increasing in 2006, along with export sales. The company puts this down to a number of factors, including innovative design, advantageous life cycle costs, high quality products and a high sensitivity towards environmental issues. Turnover for the year increased by more than 20 percent, whilst exports accounted for 58 percent of turnover, up from 36 percent in 2002.
The quality of the products was witnessed by the fact that the total costs for warranty covered by Pneumofore remained below 0.8 percent of the turnover in 2006, well below what is expected of ISO9001-2000 and 14001 quality certifications. And quality pays: all too often in industry, users quickly find that the lowest purchase cost equates to high costs of maintenance and energy use. But according to Pneumofore, all life cycle cost comparisons made during 2006 confirmed its machines as the most beneficial solution, representing the lowest total cost of investment.
A further driver behind Pneumofore's success in 2006 is put down to its high sensibility towards environmental issues, both on the popular and political level. Not only do customers today understand the issue of long term environmental impact, but also the law demands radical improvements in lowering CO2 emissions caused by energy consumption. Pneumofore maintains that its products enable customers to reap the highest available energy savings. At the core of Pneumofore systems, the constant high efficiency and trouble-free performance of thermo- and fluid-dynamical machines provides extraordinary reliability and durability over hundred thousands of operation hours with very easy maintenance. And a Pneumofore rotary vane air end can be repaired over and over again. This, the company says, is not possible for most other technologies - these may be more popular due to their lower entry price, but they prove to be far more costly in the long-term, both financially and ecologically.
Pneumofore recognizes that free global markets set new challenges for the future, such as reducing the planet's damage caused by industrial air compressors and vacuum pumps. But with its determination to win any life cycle cost comparison and to provide the market with higher-evolved technology, Pneumofore believes it is a fierce competitor in this arena.
The company remains a family-owned operation, with three generations of Swiss engineers producing 55.000 machines. Throughout its 84 years of active innovation, many of Pneumofore's products have evolved into unique, unrivaled solutions. For example, the UV50 model - the world's largest air cooled rotary vane vacuum pump - provides a complete statement of leadership in rotary vane technology. And the company's tradition of innovation continues to confirm itself as an appropriate and challenging philosophy.
