ENCE

What ENCE does

ENCE GmbH is a privately held Swiss manufacturing and engineering company headquartered in Hergiswil, Switzerland, founded in 1999. The company designs, engineers, and supplies customized industrial process equipment across six verticals: oil and gas, chemical/petrochemical, ore-dressing and mining, metallurgy, power generation, and mechanical engineering/machining. Its portfolio spans pumps, compressors, separators, heat exchangers, burners, rolling mills, galvanizing lines, hydrocyclones, flotation equipment, hydrogen fueling stations, and precision machine tools, with deep specialization in wear-resistant and heat-resistant alloys, stainless steels, ceramics, and composite materials. Manufacturing is executed through a co-owned machine building plant, BUKANG Special Industries in Yeongcheon, Republic of Korea (acquired in 2014), supported by ENCE's Switzerland-based engineering center.

The company monetizes through two primary revenue streams: (1) one-off equipment design, engineering, and supply contracts for capex projects at large industrial enterprises, and (2) recurring maintenance, installation supervision, commissioning, and post-warranty services delivered through a service department split into a Pumps and Compressors Division and a Metallurgical Division. Go-to-market is enterprise direct sales, with no public pricing disclosed, supported by a network of four branches (Switzerland, Republic of Korea, Kazakhstan) and representative offices in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Ukraine, and Spain. ENCE also acts as the regional channel and integration partner for global OEMs including Sundyne, John Zink, Johnson Matthey, Shin Nippon Machinery, CH Warman, MULTOTEC, and PLIBRICO, bundling multi-vendor equipment into single project deliveries.

The customer base is concentrated in CIS and Central Asia and includes state-linked and large industrial enterprises such as Turkmengas, JSC Ammofos Maxam, AB ACHEMA, Kazakhmys, Kazzinc, KazAtomProm, Arcelor Mittal Temirtau and Poland, U.S. Košice, and Ekibastuz GRES-1. The company is founder-operated under General Manager Irene Pfoster, has approximately 158 employees (150 in manufacturing, 8 in service), and has no public funding, no parent company, and no disclosed financial information in the input data.

Name

ENCE

Legal name

ENCE GmbH

Website

https://ence.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

ENCE GmbH is a Swiss engineering and manufacturing company that designs, supplies, and services customized industrial process equipment for oil and gas, chemical, mining, metallurgy, and power customers across CIS, Central Asia, and Europe, with co-owned production in Republic of Korea.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Hergiswil

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Equipment Manufacturing and Supply: Design, engineering, and supply of customized industrial process equipment to customers in oil and gas, chemical/petrochemical, mining, metallurgy, and power industries. Equipment includes pumps, compressors, separators, metallurgical equipment, and specialized industrial machinery.
2. Maintenance and Service: Project service support, supervised commissioning of equipment, warranty and post-warranty services through Service Centres and Head Office. Service Department includes Pumps and Compressors Division and Metallurgical Division.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

ENCE GmbH designs, engineers, and supplies customized industrial process equipment for oil and gas, chemical/petrochemical, ore-dressing, metallurgy, power, and machining industries, drawing on co-owned manufacturing capacity at the BUKANG machine building plant in the Republic of Korea. The company also delivers project-level services including installation supervision, commissioning, and warranty and post-warranty maintenance through a Service Department organized into Pumps and Compressors and Metallurgical Divisions. Products are built to industrial customer specifications using wear-resistant and heat-resistant alloys, stainless steels, ceramics, and composite materials.

Product overview

ENCE GmbH is a Swiss manufacturing and engineering company with over 25 years of experience, co-owning a machine building plant that produces customized process equipment. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of industrial equipment across six main categories: (1) Equipment for Oil and Gas Production, (2) Equipment for Chemical/Petrochemical/Gas Processing Industries, (3) Ore-Dressing and Processing Equipment, (4) Equipment for Metallurgy (including rolling mills, galvanizing lines, and metal processing equipment), (5) Equipment for Power Industries (energy units, hydrogen fueling stations, frequency converters), and (6) Machining Equipment (milling machines, lathes, drilling machines). Specific product highlights include vertical decanter centrifuges, shell-and-tube heat exchangers, chlorate cells, and specialized burners. The company also provides associated services including pump/compressor maintenance, gas turbine service with parts supply, and installation/commissioning supervision. Production facilities are located in Switzerland (headquarters), Republic of Korea (co-owned BUKANG plant), with operations spanning Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and other countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Equipment for Oil and Gas Production Customized process equipment for the oil and gas sector including drilling equipment, oil and gas production and transport equipment, custody metering systems, turbine expanders, fuel storage tanks, heat and power systems with external combustion engines, and flaring systems. Targeted at gas industry producers, transporters, and downstream processing operators.
• Equipment for Chemical, Petrochemical and Gas Processing Industries Comprehensive process equipment for chemical and petrochemical plants including pressurized oil products loading/unloading systems, sea water desalting plants, technical ceramics, heavy-duty polymeric pipes, bagging and packaging systems, hydraulic test benches, shutoff and control valves, thermal ceramics, heat exchange and capacitive equipment, dosing pump units, high-pressure piston/plunger pumps, submersible pumps, air-operated pumps, corrosion-resistant centrifugal pumps, gas compressors, high-pressure air compressors, skimmers, closed flaring systems, thermal waste disposal systems, and wastewater treatment solutions.
• Ore-Dressing and Processing Equipment Equipment for mineral processing and ore concentration including centrifugal separation equipment, belt conveyor weighers and feeders, pressure filters, high-angle conveyors, lifting cages, slurry valves, ore picking and sampling equipment, anti-adhesion coatings, wear-resistant linings, ceramic products, rubber-mill linings, flotation plant rotors and stators, centrifuges, gravity feed spiral concentrators, glass-fiber products, hydrocyclones, and pumps for the concentrating industry.
• Equipment for Metallurgy Complete metallurgical equipment lines including hot galvanizing lines for reinforcement rods and metal structures, automatic lines for metal tile production, road fencing profiling machine lines, slitting and shearing lines, steel strip color coating lines, steel strip hot galvanizing and pickling lines, pipe electric welding machines, tube-rolling mills, cold-rolling mills for coiled steel, hot rolling mills, cogging and billet roughing mills, sheet bending equipment, press-forging equipment, refractory linings, vacuum arc furnace components, basic oxygen furnace lance tips, multicomponent analysis systems, shut-off and control valves, high-pressure water jet systems, corrosion-resistant centrifugal pumps, plunger pump systems, graphitized electrodes, copper mold tubes, vacuum pump systems, motor trolleys, H-beam processing and welding lines, filter-presses, thermal and heating furnaces, blasting equipment, surface-grinding machines, roll grinding equipment, non-contact thickness gauges, and butt welding machines.
• Equipment for Power Industries Power generation and distribution equipment including energy units based heat and power stations, hydrogen fueling stations, heat and power systems with external combustion engines, current rectifiers, AC and DC frequency converters, and uninterruptible power supply units, available in large (>1 MW), midrange (<1 MW), small (<50 kW), and portable (<1 kW) capacity variants.
• Machining Equipment Precision metalworking machinery including boring and turning machines, heavy-duty turning lathes, vertical and horizontal kneeless-type milling machines, base-type and horizontal milling machines, multi-operated milling machining centres, versatile multipurpose milling machines, vertical knee-type milling machines, universal milling machines, lathes, drilling machines, and milling machines including the UNF series (UNF 1, UNF 10, UNF 12B, UNF 15B) with motor power from 2.2 kW to 7.5 kW.
• Pumps and Compressors Maintenance Services Comprehensive service maintenance for all types of pumps and compressors including installation, commissioning, and warranty and post-warranty services delivered through local Service Centres and Head Office. Specialists are trained on OILGEAR low-speed piston pumps, Wepuko plunger-type high pressure pumps, and Shin Nippon Machinery equipment.
• Gas Turbine Maintenance Services Gas turbine maintenance service including supply of new components such as blades, vanes, and other parts and materials, and recovery and repair of worn-out components of gas turbine hot sections.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5% reduction in gas consumption in reforming furnace after burner replacement at MAXAM-CHIRCHIK
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• BUKANG (Bukang Special Industries Co., Ltd.)coreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 1 January 2014ENCE GmbH acquired participation share in BUKANG machine building plant located in Youngcheon, Republic of Korea in 2014. The plant's engineering center actively participates in design and completion of production lines. Manufacturing capabilities include equipment from wear-resistant and heat-resistant alloys, stainless steels, ceramics, and composite materials.
• PLIBRICOminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2004Official partner of PLIBRICO (Austria) in Central Asia and Kazakhstan for three years (since 2004). PLIBRICO provides lining materials for gas-processing, power engineering, chemical and metallurgical industries.
• CH Warman (Warman Slurry Technologies FZE)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBusiness partner for ore mining and processing equipment. Participated jointly in Mining World Central Asia 2003 exhibition. CH Warman produces pumps with wear-proof casings and replaceable liners in rubber, high-chromium alloys, polyurethane, and ceramics.
• Sundyne (Sundstrand Corporation)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSupplier of gas compressors and high-pressure pumps. ENCE GmbH works closely with Sundyne to combat counterfeit supplies of spare parts and pumps disguised as original Sundyne equipment. Largest customer is MAXAM-CHIRCHIK in Uzbekistan.
• John Zink (International Luxembourg S.a.r.l.)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBurner manufacturer. Collaborated with MAXAM-CHIRCHIQ and ENCE GmbH engineers to develop and test new design burners for primary reforming furnace. 260 vertical burners supplied achieving 5% gas savings and reduced NOx emissions.
• Johnson MattheycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSupplier of KATALCO™ 71-5 medium temperature shift catalyst. ENCE GmbH supplies catalyst to industrial customers including TOO KazAzot in Kazakhstan (41.25 m3 supplied in 2016).
• Shin Nippon MachinerycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJapanese manufacturer of steam turbines and corrosion-resistant centrifugal pumps. ENCE GmbH supplies and services their equipment, including vertical centrifugal pump units for ammonia production.
• APOLLO-Gößnitz GmbHminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGerman manufacturer of pumps for gas producing, gas refining and chemical industries. ENCE GmbH organized presentations of Apollo pumps in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in 2005.
• CMI (CMI Termoline)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench company that collaborated with ENCE GmbH on modernization and reconstruction of walking-beam reheating furnace at Uzmetkombinat in Uzbekistan. Project achieved 40% gas reduction.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sulzer: Swiss-headquartered manufacturer of pumps, rotating equipment and process machinery serving oil & gas, chemical, mining, power and metallurgy — same vertical coverage and customer types as ENCE, with similar custom-engineering positioning.
• KSB: German pump and valve manufacturer with strong presence in chemical, mining, power and water — directly comparable to ENCE's pumps, compressors and process equipment business.
• Flowserve: US-based provider of pumps, valves and seals for oil & gas, chemical, power and mining — overlapping product portfolio and end markets with ENCE's rotating equipment supply.
• Metso: Finland-based supplier of equipment and services for mining, aggregates, and metals processing — overlapping directly with ENCE's ore-dressing and metallurgy portfolios (crushing, separation, wear-resistant equipment).
• GEA Group: German process engineering and equipment manufacturer serving chemical, food, pharma and oil & gas customers with separators, homogenizers and customized process lines comparable to ENCE's special industrial machinery offering.
• Alfa Laval: Swedish supplier of heat exchangers, separators and process equipment for chemical, petrochemical, power and metallurgy — comparable to ENCE's heat exchange, separation and process equipment lines.
• ANDRITZ: Austrian supplier of customized process equipment and plant solutions for chemical, mining, metals, and power industries; directly comparable in scope of engineering-driven industrial equipment supply.

Broad incumbents

• Voith: German industrial technology group with paper, hydro, drive, and digital divisions; comparable as diversified industrial machinery supplier serving process industries and power generation.
• MAN Energy Solutions: Provider of turbomachinery, engines and process equipment for oil & gas, chemical and power markets — adjacent to ENCE's turbines, gas compressors and power generation portfolio.
• Atlas Copco: Global industrial group covering compressors, mining/construction equipment, and power solutions; broader portfolio than ENCE but overlaps in compressors, mining equipment and process gas supply.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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