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Industry news Filtration+Separation December 2008
Siemens supplies technologies to Poland, Ireland and UK Siemens Water Technologies will provide two onsite hypochlorite electrolytic chlorination systems to Dublin City Council for the Ballymore Eustace water treatment plant in County Kildare, Ireland. The OSEC systems from Siemens, which will replace Ballymore’s chlorine gas systems, are part of a series of enhancements that are being made to the 72-year-old plant over the next five years. Once operational in 2009, this will be the largest electrochlorination plant in the UK and Ireland. The company is also supplying 50 of its HydraClam online distribution water quality monitoring devices, along with a twelve month service contract, to United Utilities in Northwest England. The HydraClam technology will play a key role in the utility’s proactive water management
Pall presents five-year business plan At a recent investor conference in New York, Pall Corp presented its five-year strategic business plan for fiscal 2009-2013 to a group of financial analysts. The presentation was also webcast live to a broader audience. By the end of Pall’s new five-year plan, sales CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is targeted to increase to between 7% and 9% with earnings per share ranging from US$4.25 to US$5.60, excluding restructuring and other charges and the impact of currency translation. The company also updated guidance for fiscal 2009. Sales are projected to grow between 4% and 6.5% with earnings per share of US$2.10 to US$2.30, excluding restructuring and other charges and the impact of currency translation.
program, allowing it to monitor water supply quality and distribution network maintenance to support United Utilities’ operation and maintenance strategies. Siemens says that once installed, this will be the first large-scale adoption of the remote communication-enabled monitors anywhere in the world. In other company news Siemens Water Technologies, will provide the Czajka wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Warsaw, Poland with visualisation, control and monitoring systems, as well as electrical installations as part of the largest WWTP upgrade and expansion project in the country. Worth approximately € 24 million, the design-build project will help the Czajka plant meet Polish and European Union directives. These rules will require WWTPs to treat
Companies team up to treat viruses with UVC irradiation Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH and Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS), both located in Germany, have just signed an exclusive cooperation agreement on the manufacture and worldwide marketing of UVivatec® products. With the technology, developed by BTS, viruses are inactivated in biopharmaceuticals by UVC irradiation. Typical areas of use are virus inactivation of cell culture media, antibody solutions and solutions containing recombinant proteins as well as irradiation of vaccines and therapeutics produced from blood and plasma.
The full Investor Day presentation is available at:
The technology is scalable and marketed by Sartorius Stedim Biotech as single-use modules, laboratory bench units and process systems. BTS will actively work with Sartorius Stedim Biotech on advancing this technology.
www.pall.com/irevents
www.sartorius-stedim.com
The Warsaw wastewater treatment plant will treat 100% effluent discharged into the Vistula River by the end of 2010.
100% of effluent discharged into the Vistula River by the end of 2010. The expansion of the Czajka plant, which serves most of Warsaw and
surrounding areas, will increase daily plant capacity from 180,000 m3 to 435,300 m3. www.siemens.com/water
Ahlstrom announces third quarter earnings Ahlstrom has announced that during the third quarter 2008, its net sales grew by 1.4% to €451.2 million and organically by 6.9%. Operating profit excluding non-recurring items decreased by 28.9% to €11.5 million, mainly due to lower gross margin and decreased demand in certain Ahlstrom’s products. The company predicts that its full-year net sales are anticipated to increase from that of 2007, however its full-year operating profit, excluding non-recurring items, is expected to be lower than in 2007. Risto Anttonen, Ahlstrom chief executive officer, commented on the third quarter results: “Ahlstrom’s business was characterised by a two-folded development in the third quarter. On a positive note, the organic growth of the net sales was strong, 6.9% from the third quarter last year, and the impact of price increases was more
and more visible. The challenges of the quarter were connected with the fact that the turn of the trend in the raw material market did not yet have any effect in Ahlstrom’s cost base, and despite the increase in a majority of our businesses, there was a stronger than anticipated decrease in the demand for some of Ahlstrom’s products, such as wipes and products for the building, automotive and marine industries. We have taken actions to adjust the production to the lower demand, for example by temporarily shutting down some production lines and decreasing the number of shifts.” However, demand was still growing in a majority of Ahlstrom’s product segments, such as nonwovens for medical products, glass fibre reinforcements for windmill applications, as well as in wallcovers, vegetable parchment and crepe papers. www.ahlstrom.com
Industry news Filtration+Separation December 2008
Siemens supplies technologies to Poland, Ireland and UK Siemens Water Technologies will provide two onsite hypochlorite electrolytic chlorination systems to Dublin City Council for the Ballymore Eustace water treatment plant in County Kildare, Ireland. The OSEC systems from Siemens, which will replace Ballymore’s chlorine gas systems, are part of a series of enhancements that are being made to the 72-year-old plant over the next five years. Once operational in 2009, this will be the largest electrochlorination plant in the UK and Ireland. The company is also supplying 50 of its HydraClam online distribution water quality monitoring devices, along with a twelve month service contract, to United Utilities in Northwest England. The HydraClam technology will play a key role in the utility’s proactive water management
Pall presents five-year business plan At a recent investor conference in New York, Pall Corp presented its five-year strategic business plan for fiscal 2009-2013 to a group of financial analysts. The presentation was also webcast live to a broader audience. By the end of Pall’s new five-year plan, sales CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is targeted to increase to between 7% and 9% with earnings per share ranging from US$4.25 to US$5.60, excluding restructuring and other charges and the impact of currency translation. The company also updated guidance for fiscal 2009. Sales are projected to grow between 4% and 6.5% with earnings per share of US$2.10 to US$2.30, excluding restructuring and other charges and the impact of currency translation.
program, allowing it to monitor water supply quality and distribution network maintenance to support United Utilities’ operation and maintenance strategies. Siemens says that once installed, this will be the first large-scale adoption of the remote communication-enabled monitors anywhere in the world. In other company news Siemens Water Technologies, will provide the Czajka wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Warsaw, Poland with visualisation, control and monitoring systems, as well as electrical installations as part of the largest WWTP upgrade and expansion project in the country. Worth approximately € 24 million, the design-build project will help the Czajka plant meet Polish and European Union directives. These rules will require WWTPs to treat
Companies team up to treat viruses with UVC irradiation Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH and Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS), both located in Germany, have just signed an exclusive cooperation agreement on the manufacture and worldwide marketing of UVivatec® products. With the technology, developed by BTS, viruses are inactivated in biopharmaceuticals by UVC irradiation. Typical areas of use are virus inactivation of cell culture media, antibody solutions and solutions containing recombinant proteins as well as irradiation of vaccines and therapeutics produced from blood and plasma.
The full Investor Day presentation is available at:
The technology is scalable and marketed by Sartorius Stedim Biotech as single-use modules, laboratory bench units and process systems. BTS will actively work with Sartorius Stedim Biotech on advancing this technology.
www.pall.com/irevents
www.sartorius-stedim.com
The Warsaw wastewater treatment plant will treat 100% effluent discharged into the Vistula River by the end of 2010.
100% of effluent discharged into the Vistula River by the end of 2010. The expansion of the Czajka plant, which serves most of Warsaw and
surrounding areas, will increase daily plant capacity from 180,000 m3 to 435,300 m3. www.siemens.com/water
Ahlstrom announces third quarter earnings Ahlstrom has announced that during the third quarter 2008, its net sales grew by 1.4% to €451.2 million and organically by 6.9%. Operating profit excluding non-recurring items decreased by 28.9% to €11.5 million, mainly due to lower gross margin and decreased demand in certain Ahlstrom’s products. The company predicts that its full-year net sales are anticipated to increase from that of 2007, however its full-year operating profit, excluding non-recurring items, is expected to be lower than in 2007. Risto Anttonen, Ahlstrom chief executive officer, commented on the third quarter results: “Ahlstrom’s business was characterised by a two-folded development in the third quarter. On a positive note, the organic growth of the net sales was strong, 6.9% from the third quarter last year, and the impact of price increases was more
and more visible. The challenges of the quarter were connected with the fact that the turn of the trend in the raw material market did not yet have any effect in Ahlstrom’s cost base, and despite the increase in a majority of our businesses, there was a stronger than anticipated decrease in the demand for some of Ahlstrom’s products, such as wipes and products for the building, automotive and marine industries. We have taken actions to adjust the production to the lower demand, for example by temporarily shutting down some production lines and decreasing the number of shifts.” However, demand was still growing in a majority of Ahlstrom’s product segments, such as nonwovens for medical products, glass fibre reinforcements for windmill applications, as well as in wallcovers, vegetable parchment and crepe papers. www.ahlstrom.com