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with accurate advice on the best technology for every application. “We believe that the agreement with Graver will be a significant development in our ability to service the starch, sugar, sweetener and general industrial markets from our application centre in Ettlingen, Germany, covering food and beverage, and industrial applications within Europe,” he said. GEA Filtration has used the Scepter module in its membrane filtration systems for the past three years. The membrane is an alternative to centrifugal or pre-coat filter technology in these market sectors.
SARTORIUS CONSOLIDATES ITS BRAND IMAGE Sartorius AG has unveiled a new brand strategy as part of an ongoing effort to strengthen awareness of the group’s diversity of activities. The company has announced that its fermentation product line, B. Braun Biotech International, as well as its two industrial mechatronics product groups, GWT and Boekels, will now be sold using the Sartorius brand. Its biotechnology laboratory and laboratory mechatronics product lines, Vivascience and Acculab, will retain their individual brand names, although their affiliation with Sartorius will be visually emphasized. Dr Joachim Kreuzburg, spokesman for the company’s executive board, said the revision of the brand strategy was designed to reduce the complexity of the company’s product portfolio to various stakeholders. “We are focusing on our core brand Sartorius and thus sharpening its profile and awareness by customers,” he said. “The sales volume associated with the Sartorius brand alone will increase by a good
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50%. Besides consolidating our brand image it will support our activities for integrating the various sales teams within the Sartorius Group and thus for shaping an overall more proactive sales and marketing policy. Sartorius AG is a global supplier of process technology for the biotechnology and mechatronics sectors. In 2002, the group had sales revenue of 476.5 million.
LYDALL UNIFIES GROUP STRUCTURE Lydall Inc has reorganized its operations by uniting the company’s existing operating groups into a single corporate structure. David Freeman, president and CEO of Lydall, said the reorganization was the necessary latest step in the company’s evolution and would bring greater efficiencies. “In 2000, Lydall moved from a decentralized, division structure to a group organization, segregating our filtration, thermal and transport businesses,” he said. “Our purpose was to capitalize on the synergies within our core businesses and to strategically position the company. The time has now come to take the next organizational step.” Freeman said the corporate structure, introduced on 1 January 2004, would streamline the organization enabling it to be managed as a cohesive whole. “We seek to reduce overhead redundancies, move closer to our customers and markets, leverage our manufacturing knowledge, and solidify a Lydall corporate culture,” Freeman said. As a result of the new organization, Lydall’s group structure has been eliminated. In its place a manufacturing council and a sales and marketing council have been formed at
the corporate level to provide strategic direction for the respective functions companywide. Freeman is heading the former body, while COO Chris Skomorowski is in charge of the latter council.
GAMMA HOLDING BUYS GOODMAN Gamma Holding has reached an agreement with C. Goodman & Co Inc to acquire its filter media business for an undisclosed sum. Gamma will operate the business under the newly formed subsidiary, Goodman Filtration Inc. Based in Paterson, New Jersey, USA, Goodman manufactures and sells filter cloths for wet filtration in the chemical industry and in water-purification applications. With sales of US$1.5 million, the acquisition will complement Gamma’s existing US entities Madison Filter Inc and Crosible Inc. Gamma Holding has also expanded its sleep care fabrics business unit with the acquisition of Textiles y Diseños SA in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both acquisitions have been financed from available credit facilities.
BUSS-SMS ACQUIRES CANZLER BUSINESS UNITS Buss-SMS GmbH Verfahrenstechnik has expanded its existing thermal separation operations and moved into membrane technology through the acquisition of two business units from Canzler GmbH. Buss-SMS bought the two Canzler divisions for an undisclosed sum, following the commencement of insolvency proceedings for the German firm. Following the acquisition, the company has changed its name to Buss-SMS-Canzler GmbH to reflect its broader product offerings. The name
change continues a tradition for the 80-year-old firm, which already consists of the merged thermal separation operations of the former SMS, Luwa and Buss companies. With plants in Butzbach, Germany, and Pratteln, Switzerland, Buss-SMS had 155 employees and an annual turnover of approximately 25 million prior to the takeover of the Canzler business units. It offers solutions for demanding tasks in evaporation, drying, devolatilization, reacting, mixing and distillation. Buss-SMS will open a further branch office in Canzler’s base of Düren to integrate the acquisitions and will take 18 employees from the company’s sales, process engineering and mechanical engineering departments. Canzler had a total of 83 employees when the insolvency proceedings commenced and was active in nonferrous metals fabrication and spiral heat exchangers, in addition to the activities acquired by Buss-SMS. A spokesperson for BussSMS said the acquisitions provided a good fit with the company’s existing operations. “The focus of Canzler’s thermal separation technology on evaporation in the oleochemical, pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries ideally complements the Buss-SMS evaporation technology with its focus on specialty, basic and polymer chemistry, while the membrane technology opens up completely new application areas,” he said.
GEA FORMS LIQUID PROCESS GROUP As part of its ongoing restructure, mg technologies ag has announced the formation of GEA Liquid Processing to integrate its activities in this area for pharmaceutial, Continued on page 14
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with accurate advice on the best technology for every application. “We believe that the agreement with Graver will be a significant development in our ability to service the starch, sugar, sweetener and general industrial markets from our application centre in Ettlingen, Germany, covering food and beverage, and industrial applications within Europe,” he said. GEA Filtration has used the Scepter module in its membrane filtration systems for the past three years. The membrane is an alternative to centrifugal or pre-coat filter technology in these market sectors.
SARTORIUS CONSOLIDATES ITS BRAND IMAGE Sartorius AG has unveiled a new brand strategy as part of an ongoing effort to strengthen awareness of the group’s diversity of activities. The company has announced that its fermentation product line, B. Braun Biotech International, as well as its two industrial mechatronics product groups, GWT and Boekels, will now be sold using the Sartorius brand. Its biotechnology laboratory and laboratory mechatronics product lines, Vivascience and Acculab, will retain their individual brand names, although their affiliation with Sartorius will be visually emphasized. Dr Joachim Kreuzburg, spokesman for the company’s executive board, said the revision of the brand strategy was designed to reduce the complexity of the company’s product portfolio to various stakeholders. “We are focusing on our core brand Sartorius and thus sharpening its profile and awareness by customers,” he said. “The sales volume associated with the Sartorius brand alone will increase by a good
Filtration Industry Analyst
50%. Besides consolidating our brand image it will support our activities for integrating the various sales teams within the Sartorius Group and thus for shaping an overall more proactive sales and marketing policy. Sartorius AG is a global supplier of process technology for the biotechnology and mechatronics sectors. In 2002, the group had sales revenue of 476.5 million.
LYDALL UNIFIES GROUP STRUCTURE Lydall Inc has reorganized its operations by uniting the company’s existing operating groups into a single corporate structure. David Freeman, president and CEO of Lydall, said the reorganization was the necessary latest step in the company’s evolution and would bring greater efficiencies. “In 2000, Lydall moved from a decentralized, division structure to a group organization, segregating our filtration, thermal and transport businesses,” he said. “Our purpose was to capitalize on the synergies within our core businesses and to strategically position the company. The time has now come to take the next organizational step.” Freeman said the corporate structure, introduced on 1 January 2004, would streamline the organization enabling it to be managed as a cohesive whole. “We seek to reduce overhead redundancies, move closer to our customers and markets, leverage our manufacturing knowledge, and solidify a Lydall corporate culture,” Freeman said. As a result of the new organization, Lydall’s group structure has been eliminated. In its place a manufacturing council and a sales and marketing council have been formed at
the corporate level to provide strategic direction for the respective functions companywide. Freeman is heading the former body, while COO Chris Skomorowski is in charge of the latter council.
GAMMA HOLDING BUYS GOODMAN Gamma Holding has reached an agreement with C. Goodman & Co Inc to acquire its filter media business for an undisclosed sum. Gamma will operate the business under the newly formed subsidiary, Goodman Filtration Inc. Based in Paterson, New Jersey, USA, Goodman manufactures and sells filter cloths for wet filtration in the chemical industry and in water-purification applications. With sales of US$1.5 million, the acquisition will complement Gamma’s existing US entities Madison Filter Inc and Crosible Inc. Gamma Holding has also expanded its sleep care fabrics business unit with the acquisition of Textiles y Diseños SA in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both acquisitions have been financed from available credit facilities.
BUSS-SMS ACQUIRES CANZLER BUSINESS UNITS Buss-SMS GmbH Verfahrenstechnik has expanded its existing thermal separation operations and moved into membrane technology through the acquisition of two business units from Canzler GmbH. Buss-SMS bought the two Canzler divisions for an undisclosed sum, following the commencement of insolvency proceedings for the German firm. Following the acquisition, the company has changed its name to Buss-SMS-Canzler GmbH to reflect its broader product offerings. The name
change continues a tradition for the 80-year-old firm, which already consists of the merged thermal separation operations of the former SMS, Luwa and Buss companies. With plants in Butzbach, Germany, and Pratteln, Switzerland, Buss-SMS had 155 employees and an annual turnover of approximately 25 million prior to the takeover of the Canzler business units. It offers solutions for demanding tasks in evaporation, drying, devolatilization, reacting, mixing and distillation. Buss-SMS will open a further branch office in Canzler’s base of Düren to integrate the acquisitions and will take 18 employees from the company’s sales, process engineering and mechanical engineering departments. Canzler had a total of 83 employees when the insolvency proceedings commenced and was active in nonferrous metals fabrication and spiral heat exchangers, in addition to the activities acquired by Buss-SMS. A spokesperson for BussSMS said the acquisitions provided a good fit with the company’s existing operations. “The focus of Canzler’s thermal separation technology on evaporation in the oleochemical, pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries ideally complements the Buss-SMS evaporation technology with its focus on specialty, basic and polymer chemistry, while the membrane technology opens up completely new application areas,” he said.
GEA FORMS LIQUID PROCESS GROUP As part of its ongoing restructure, mg technologies ag has announced the formation of GEA Liquid Processing to integrate its activities in this area for pharmaceutial, Continued on page 14
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