A compressed air specialist continues to grow from small beginnings
BEKO TECHNOLOGIES started out from one man’s vision to save companies money whilst benefitting the environment. To give some background to this, compressed air is widely used across most of industry and it is estimated that 15% of the power generated in a country is re-used to create compressed air. Berthold Koch was frustrated to see that most compressor condensate devices either worked inefficiently or wasted a significant amount of compressed air. He worked on the idea of a level sensing drain which would not lose any compressed air and would reliably operate in hot, wet, dirty and oily conditions. His employer did not believe in the product so in 1982 he took the decision to leave and form BEKO TECHNOLOGIES. Nearly 30 years later the BEKOMAT drain has sold over 2 million units and has been fitted as original equipment in most of the leading compressor brands.
It was from this small beginning that BEKO TECHNOLOGIES have established sales companies and distribution outlets to give a global reach. Manufacturing plants have been built in Germany (2), India and the USA. A small instrument company was recently acquired to strengthen BEKO’s position in the Measurement Market. Like most companies BEKO TECHNOLOGIES were slowed down by the recent world recession but unlike most have made significant investments in buildings, machinery and people.
BEKO TECHNOLOGIES in the UK are based in Bromsgrove from where a national service is provided to the UK and Ireland. Our experienced team offer solutions to problems downstream of a compressor with a complete range of drying, filtration, condensate management and measuring devices. BEKO are proud of their reputation in the market place. Simple things like answering the telephone promptly, owning the call, and responding are part of the reason that BEKO’s customer surveys tell us that we are “easy to do business with”
A recent example (where we cannot yet name the customer but all readers would immediately recognise the brand and products) requested a quotation for the refurbishment of a compressed air dryer. Simple! BEKO’s technical team did not take this request as being the whole story and found out that there were other things on the mind of the Project Engineer. The solution that won the order worth almost £250k was to replace the drying plant with new units. The old units used approximately 15% of the compressed air flow to regenerate the drying medium which placed a heavier than needed load on the compressors. The new zero loss dryers enabled the client to switch off a large compressor when his original thoughts were that he would probably have to invest in another unit. The project pay back was within the company’s acceptable level and is now closed off as a successful project.
