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Companies to promote demineralisation
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resulting in zero discharge and minimisation of fresh water intake.
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CLEAR EDGE SUBSIDIARY TO DISTRIBUTE AWF PRODUCTS Clear Edge Group’s subsidiary operation Madison Filter P/L, based in Melbourne Australia, has formed a distribution venture with Australian Water Filter (AWF) Ltd. AWF, based in Queensland, develops systems to recycle car wash water, swimming pool backwash water, laundry water and ‘whole of house’ domestic water filtration. The company has also adapted its systems in order to produce potable water and is currently working with the Australian government and aid agencies to trial and supply units to Australia’s Asia and Pacific neighbours, including Asian Tsunami-affected areas, Clear Edge says. Madison Filter works in the fields of mining and mineral processing, waste water, chemicals, food, pulp and paper and environmental markets, making the distribution of AWF’s technology and systems to these markets for water recycling and purification a perfect complement to the Clear Edge/Madison Filter range of products and services, the company claims.
OIL AND GAS WATER TREATMENT SOLD TO M-I SWACO 3i, a European private equity company, has sold its stake in Epcon Offshore AS, a provider of water treatment systems for the oil & gas industry, to global drilling experts M-I Swaco. 3i says that, since its November 2004 investment in
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Epcon, it has seen the value of the company grow by more than 3.5 times and strengthen its management team with the appointment of Arne Aune as CEO and Mike Fleming as non-executive director.
COMMENT The acquisition of Epcon will enable M-I Swaco to enter the water treatment market which it feels is complementary to its established businesses and uses its international strengths to globalise the market for the Epcon Compact Flotation Unit (Epcon CFU). ■
CAROLINA FILTERS TO SELL UK FILTER CLEANERS Carolina Filters Inc, based in South Carolina, USA, have signed an exclusive sales agency agreement with Longworth Engineering Ltd, based in Blackburn, UK to sell Longworth’s Deecom filter cleaning technology. Carolina Filters Inc will represent the company in the Americas and will also be responsible for marketing other filter cleaning equipment made by Longworth Engineering Ltd including TEG cleaning systems, pyrolysis ovens, ultrasonic tanks, spin rigs and testing and validation equipment. “This partnership is extremely exciting for us,” said Coles Dwight, director of Carolina Filters Inc. “For many years both companies have worked independently to become leaders in the international polymer parts cleaning business. [Our company’s] technical involvement with Longworth’s engineers has led to a formal partnership that has taken both companies to new levels of expertise.”
JAPANESE LIQUICEL MEMBRANE SYSTEM INSTALLED Membrana’s Cel Membrane Contactor technology has been selected for gas control in a functional water system in Japan. Functional water, sometimes referred to as activated water, uses reduced oxygen and increased hydrogen content to improve the cleaning characteristics in megasonic cleaning equipment. Liqui-Cel Membrane Contactors are used around the world for adding or removing oxygen (O2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N2) to or from different liquids in the semiconductor, power, pharmaceutical, photographic, food and beverage, and many other industries. Liqui-Cel Contactors are also used to add gasses to liquids to enhance megasonic cleaning. The beverage industry looks to membrane contactors for carbonation, nitrogenation and O2 removal. These reflect only a few examples of the variety of applications where the Liqui-Cel Membrane Contactors are used. New applications are constantly being developed. Membrana has also provided a Liqui-Cel Membrane Contactor system for oxygen removal to Malaysia. The semiconductor plant will use the product to manufacture logic chips used in automobiles and industrial power applications.
COMPANIES TO PROMOTE DEMINERALISATION Applexion, Novasep Process and Eurodia Industrie SA have signed a worldwide cooperation agreement to promote a new combination of demineralisation technology for the sugar industry.
This improved demineralisation process combines Eurodia’s low electrodialysis conductivity system, Aqualyser LCD, with Applexion’s onexchange demineralisation process and is said to be perfectly adapted to sweeteners applications such as starch hydrolysates, beet sugar, cane sugar, and so on. The companies claim that the sweeteners industry will benefit from this new combination of technologies, which will significantly reduce the operating costs of demineralisation. The new process is said to require fewer chemicals and generates less efflluent.
EATON TO BUY ST GOBAINOWNED FRENCH TUBING MAKER Eaton Corp has agreed to buy French tubing maker Synflex from Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp for an undisclosed sum. Synflex, which had 2005 sales of about US$120 million, makes thermoplastic hoses and tubing for a range of industries, including transportation, beverage dispensing and fluid power. Eaton expects to close the deal by the end of March. “The acquisition of Synflex will provide Eaton with an expanded range of thermoplastic hose and tubing products for customers in a broad range of fluid conveyance applications, including the transportation, oil and gas, material handling, and utility industries,” said Craig Arnold, senior vice president and president of Eaton’s fluid power group. Synflex employs about 450 people in four locations, including three in the United States and one in Belgium. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics is part of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, a worldwide materials producer. Eaton shares rose 13 cents to US$68.38 in morning trading on the NYSE.
resulting in zero discharge and minimisation of fresh water intake.
NEWS
CLEAR EDGE SUBSIDIARY TO DISTRIBUTE AWF PRODUCTS Clear Edge Group’s subsidiary operation Madison Filter P/L, based in Melbourne Australia, has formed a distribution venture with Australian Water Filter (AWF) Ltd. AWF, based in Queensland, develops systems to recycle car wash water, swimming pool backwash water, laundry water and ‘whole of house’ domestic water filtration. The company has also adapted its systems in order to produce potable water and is currently working with the Australian government and aid agencies to trial and supply units to Australia’s Asia and Pacific neighbours, including Asian Tsunami-affected areas, Clear Edge says. Madison Filter works in the fields of mining and mineral processing, waste water, chemicals, food, pulp and paper and environmental markets, making the distribution of AWF’s technology and systems to these markets for water recycling and purification a perfect complement to the Clear Edge/Madison Filter range of products and services, the company claims.
OIL AND GAS WATER TREATMENT SOLD TO M-I SWACO 3i, a European private equity company, has sold its stake in Epcon Offshore AS, a provider of water treatment systems for the oil & gas industry, to global drilling experts M-I Swaco. 3i says that, since its November 2004 investment in
4
March 2006
Epcon, it has seen the value of the company grow by more than 3.5 times and strengthen its management team with the appointment of Arne Aune as CEO and Mike Fleming as non-executive director.
COMMENT The acquisition of Epcon will enable M-I Swaco to enter the water treatment market which it feels is complementary to its established businesses and uses its international strengths to globalise the market for the Epcon Compact Flotation Unit (Epcon CFU). ■
CAROLINA FILTERS TO SELL UK FILTER CLEANERS Carolina Filters Inc, based in South Carolina, USA, have signed an exclusive sales agency agreement with Longworth Engineering Ltd, based in Blackburn, UK to sell Longworth’s Deecom filter cleaning technology. Carolina Filters Inc will represent the company in the Americas and will also be responsible for marketing other filter cleaning equipment made by Longworth Engineering Ltd including TEG cleaning systems, pyrolysis ovens, ultrasonic tanks, spin rigs and testing and validation equipment. “This partnership is extremely exciting for us,” said Coles Dwight, director of Carolina Filters Inc. “For many years both companies have worked independently to become leaders in the international polymer parts cleaning business. [Our company’s] technical involvement with Longworth’s engineers has led to a formal partnership that has taken both companies to new levels of expertise.”
JAPANESE LIQUICEL MEMBRANE SYSTEM INSTALLED Membrana’s Cel Membrane Contactor technology has been selected for gas control in a functional water system in Japan. Functional water, sometimes referred to as activated water, uses reduced oxygen and increased hydrogen content to improve the cleaning characteristics in megasonic cleaning equipment. Liqui-Cel Membrane Contactors are used around the world for adding or removing oxygen (O2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N2) to or from different liquids in the semiconductor, power, pharmaceutical, photographic, food and beverage, and many other industries. Liqui-Cel Contactors are also used to add gasses to liquids to enhance megasonic cleaning. The beverage industry looks to membrane contactors for carbonation, nitrogenation and O2 removal. These reflect only a few examples of the variety of applications where the Liqui-Cel Membrane Contactors are used. New applications are constantly being developed. Membrana has also provided a Liqui-Cel Membrane Contactor system for oxygen removal to Malaysia. The semiconductor plant will use the product to manufacture logic chips used in automobiles and industrial power applications.
COMPANIES TO PROMOTE DEMINERALISATION Applexion, Novasep Process and Eurodia Industrie SA have signed a worldwide cooperation agreement to promote a new combination of demineralisation technology for the sugar industry.
This improved demineralisation process combines Eurodia’s low electrodialysis conductivity system, Aqualyser LCD, with Applexion’s onexchange demineralisation process and is said to be perfectly adapted to sweeteners applications such as starch hydrolysates, beet sugar, cane sugar, and so on. The companies claim that the sweeteners industry will benefit from this new combination of technologies, which will significantly reduce the operating costs of demineralisation. The new process is said to require fewer chemicals and generates less efflluent.
EATON TO BUY ST GOBAINOWNED FRENCH TUBING MAKER Eaton Corp has agreed to buy French tubing maker Synflex from Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp for an undisclosed sum. Synflex, which had 2005 sales of about US$120 million, makes thermoplastic hoses and tubing for a range of industries, including transportation, beverage dispensing and fluid power. Eaton expects to close the deal by the end of March. “The acquisition of Synflex will provide Eaton with an expanded range of thermoplastic hose and tubing products for customers in a broad range of fluid conveyance applications, including the transportation, oil and gas, material handling, and utility industries,” said Craig Arnold, senior vice president and president of Eaton’s fluid power group. Synflex employs about 450 people in four locations, including three in the United States and one in Belgium. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics is part of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, a worldwide materials producer. Eaton shares rose 13 cents to US$68.38 in morning trading on the NYSE.