The Andritz Group acquired a majority share (80%) of Shanghai Shende Machinery Co. Ltd in February 2013; the company is now part of the Andritz Feed & Biofuel business area.
Shanghai Shende Machinery Co. Ltd was established in 1992 in cooperation with Germany-based Munch Group, and has since then developed a strong position and excellent reputation in the Chinese marketplace as a provider of cost effective feed and biomass technologies and solutions.
In recent years Shende successfully developed a new technology business within the China and South East Asia bio-fuel sector, where the Shende pelleting technology and plant solutions has proved its performance and reliability.
Shende is today renowned for quality feed processing machines and feed plant solutions, as well as high quality pelletmill dies and other aftermarket products and services to feed plants and biomass pelleting plants.
The technologies, project design solutions, customer base and market segments of Shende are considered to be an excellent addition to the current business and growth strategy of Andritz Feed & Biofuel in China as well as other markets outside China.
Shende will be operated from the Shende plant in Songjiang district Shanghai, and will be managed by Mr. Ren Shu and the team which has built up the technology and market position of Shende over the last 20 years.
Shende product lines , project design and aftermarket offerings will be streamlined and marketed as a separate brand from Andritz Feed & Biofuel brand product lines and services in the market.
Andritz, with its very strong technology position in the global market, will through its ownership of Shende further enhance the development of Shende technologies and services to its customers, and make the investments needed to support further growth of Shende in the China domestic market as well as export business.
Andritz Feed & Biofuel operates in China under Andritz China Ltd. with manufacturing plant in Sanshui, Guangdong Province, together with project engineering and sales offices located in Liyang City, Jiangsu Province.
Shanghai Shende Machinery Co. Ltd, and Andritz (China) Ltd. look forward to providing the very best technologies, equipment and services not only to all markets but now to all market segments in China and abroad.
Andritz has experienced strong global growth, organically and by acquisitions, and has since the 1990s developed rapidly in several business areas in China.
For year 2012, Andritz reported global sales of 5,177 Million Euro, and employs some 1,8000 people worldwide. The acquisition of Shanghai Shende Machinery adds approximately 1,500 people in China, and a further 1,400 in other Asian countries.
