Acquisition enhances mixing technology portfolio for SPX FLOW and UTG customers and expands European operations and sales channels

CHARLOTTE, N.C., January 18, 2021 – SPX FLOW, Inc. (NYSE: FLOW), a leading provider of process solutions for the food, beverage & industrial markets, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of UTG Mixing Group, the maker of Stelzer, Uutechnic, and Jamix mixing solutions for the chemical, food, metallurgical and fertilizer, environmental technology, water treatment, and pharmaceuticals markets.

The addition of UTG’s operations, based in Finland and Germany, will add technology, manufacturing capacity, and technical expertise to SPX FLOW’s already robust global portfolio of mixing and blending solutions, including Lightnin, Plenty, and APV.

“UTG’s products, skilled team members, and sales channels align well with the strategy for our mixer business. We are excited about the new growth and synergy opportunities for our combined organizations,” said Marc Michael, Chief Executive Officer of SPX FLOW. “Bringing UTG Mixing Group and its well-known product brands into the SPX FLOW family strengthens the sales network of the combined company, offering customers a greater breadth of solutions for a wider range of applications.”

KPMG Oy Ab and Dittmar & Andrenius advised SPX FLOW on the transaction.

About SPX FLOW, Inc.
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, SPX FLOW, Inc. (NYSE: FLOW) innovates with customers to help feed and enhance the world by designing, delivering, and servicing high-value process solutions at the heart of growing and sustaining our diverse communities. The company’s product offering is concentrated in process technologies that perform mixing, blending, fluid handling, separation, thermal heat transfer, and other activities that are integral to processes performed across a wide variety of sanitary and industrial markets. SPX FLOW had approximately $1.5 billion in 2019 annual revenues and has operations in more than 30 countries and sales in more than 100 countries. To learn more about SPX FLOW, please visit www.spxflow.com.

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“Our method complements traditional laboratory and pilot-scale physical modeling by allowing for studying mixer-induced flows on a full industrial scale. Analytical scaling of lab results to an industrial scale is a challenging task that may case-by-case involve considerable uncertainties,” says Niclas Tylli, Technical Manager at UTG Mixing Group.

“Whenever a new mixer is designed, the customer benefits from the fact that the reactor or mixing tank is numerically simulated. This helps ensure that the mixer works exactly as designed. The results of the simulation can be used to produce a flow animation that shows in advance how the mixer will work,” Tylli adds.

The animation helps understand the three-dimensional flow and how the flow changes when the mixing parameters or mixer configuration are changed. The customer can receive an even more accurate and quantitative analysis of mixer performance, if necessary, by examining the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) results that contain important mixer-related process data. The ultimate benefit for the customer, of course, is a better mixer, not the animation itself.

The flow animations are especially helpful to R&D experts, who can study all the mixing options for developing their own processes. Based on the animations, they can quickly visualize the shape, number and coverage of the circulation zones. By combining this information with their own experience and expertise, they can then evaluate the suitability of the mixer for the problem to be solved.

Unlike most companies in the industry, UTG performs CFD simulations itself. The competence is now available in both Germany and Finland, where the team’s CFD capabilities have just been strengthened.

“In this way, we are able to serve our customers even better by providing even more comprehensive data in a modern and usable way,” Tylli says.

UTG already has basic CFD files for all its own mixers that enable fast track applications for the customer’s mixing cases. The simulation is included in the price of any UTG mixer and is also available separately as a paid service under certain conditions.

Watch product animations for UTG mixers