TIMELINE

1960

Mr. Erhard Charles Andreae, 55 years old, an independent mechanical engineer in the field of surface treatment for 25 years, patents a particle filter for paint booths, collapsible, disposable, made of cardboard and operating on the principle of inertia separation.

1963

Andreae Filters is founded. Filters are hand made in a garage at a rate of 6m2 per day. E-C. Andreae sells door to door in Switzerland.

1967

The Binks Manufacturing Company, the US and World No. 1 paint booth manufacturer, buys Bullows and is interested in the Andreae filter. Exclusivity is granted to Binks for all of its subsidiaries around the world, which will give Andreae Filters an instant global notoriety as Binks launches worldwide the “Binks-Andreae” spray booth line.

1984

Mr. Robert Andreae purchases Andreae Filters. The production tool is modernized and improved, the internal organization is restructured to enhance internal cooperation.

1991

R. Andreae founds Andreae Filters Inc. in Ardmore, USA to better serve the US market and forecast the end of the BINKS exclusivity.

2001

USA and Swiss companies are both renamed Andreae Team Inc., USA and Andreae Team SA, Switzerland.

2009

Andreae Team USA moves to a new bigger building in Ardmore, USA

2014

As the historic factory of Switzerland becomes too small, production is moved to Poland in bigger facilities. This new location provides Andreae Team with direct and more competitive access to western and eastern European markets.

2016

Acquisition of the historic Binks filter production in Scotland from Carlisle Fluid Technologies with its customer base and the use of the “Binks” brand under licence as far as filters are concerned only.

2017

The US Ardmore plant becomes too small for coming new products, all production lines are moved to Montreal, Canada, into larger premises, closer to major cardboard suppliers, at the gateway to an international port, facilitating access to North and South American markets as well as Asia.

2017

Andreae Team Ltd Hong-Kong sales office is opened. Andreae Team Pte Ltd Singapore warehouse is opened.

2018

Andreae Team celebrates the 55th anniversary of the invention of Andreae Filters and the founding of the company.

2019

Andreae Team becomes AEREM

2019

Aerem launches the uCube solution. Ucube using the technology of inertial separation and was developed to use the best of the existing and recyclable raw materials, namely cardboard and polyester.

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