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Dow expands membrane facility
Filtration venture in the UK market
Whatman finds buyer for filtration business
German filtration specialist Boll & Kirch Filterbau GmbH and Geedon Ltd, UK, have established a new business to help promote Boll & Kirch's filtration systems in the UK market. The new business, called Bolllqlter UK Ltd, will be based in Colchester at Geedon's old site and John Dow, previously managing director of Geedon, will head the new company. He said Bollfilter would reflect the specific needs of the U K markets, and new products were currently being developed.
Parker Hannifin Corp of Cleveland, USA, has agreed to buy Whatman plc's Industrial business. Whatman plc based in the UK and the USA, announced at the end of last year that it was looking for a buyer for its Industrial business (Filtration+Separation, January/ February 2000, p. 9). The Industrial business had annual sales of US$54 million in 1999 and employs over 300 people. It manufactures high quality purification products and gas generators for a variety of industrial
Boll & Kirch is a leading European manufacturer of automatic filtration systems, particularly for industrial and marine applications. Its product range also includes manual simplex and duplex filters and strainers. Prior to the agreement Geedon • had been the sole distributor of Boll & Kirch products in the UK. Contact: Bollfilter UK Ltd, Commerce Park, Whitehall Road, Colchester, C02 8HX, UK. Tel: +44 1206 792234; Fax: +44 1206 793004.
applications, as well as specialising in high efficiency filtration and membrane technology for gas separation. The business is split into compressed air filtration/ conditioning and gas generation, Parker expects the acquisition to be moderately accretive to 2001 earning• According to John Oelslager, president of Parker's Filtration group, the Industrial business will significantly broaden the product range of the group in the areas of compressed air filtration and gas generation.
Dow expands membrane facility According to Dow Chemical Co of Midland, Michigan, USA, its Liquid Separations business is doubling the size of its Filmtec TM membrane manufacturing facility in order to meet the growing global demand for reverse osmosis (RO) water purification technology.
Approximately US$35 million will be invested in the plant, which is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The expansion includes third generation membrane line technology and fourth generation automated fabrication technology. The company also plans to increase the
manufacturing workforce by up to a third over the course of this year. Filmtec membrane modules are precision and machine fabricated, which says Dow makes them faster and more efficient to produce than other traditionally manufactured membrane modules. In addition, the
membrane surface area for treating water inside the Filmtec module is claimed to be significantly larger than other membrane modules. Contact:The Dow Chemical Co, Larkin Lab, 1691 N Swede, Midland, MI 48674, USA. Tel: +517 363 9086.
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Whatman finds buyer for filtration business
German filtration specialist Boll & Kirch Filterbau GmbH and Geedon Ltd, UK, have established a new business to help promote Boll & Kirch's filtration systems in the UK market. The new business, called Bolllqlter UK Ltd, will be based in Colchester at Geedon's old site and John Dow, previously managing director of Geedon, will head the new company. He said Bollfilter would reflect the specific needs of the U K markets, and new products were currently being developed.
Parker Hannifin Corp of Cleveland, USA, has agreed to buy Whatman plc's Industrial business. Whatman plc based in the UK and the USA, announced at the end of last year that it was looking for a buyer for its Industrial business (Filtration+Separation, January/ February 2000, p. 9). The Industrial business had annual sales of US$54 million in 1999 and employs over 300 people. It manufactures high quality purification products and gas generators for a variety of industrial
Boll & Kirch is a leading European manufacturer of automatic filtration systems, particularly for industrial and marine applications. Its product range also includes manual simplex and duplex filters and strainers. Prior to the agreement Geedon • had been the sole distributor of Boll & Kirch products in the UK. Contact: Bollfilter UK Ltd, Commerce Park, Whitehall Road, Colchester, C02 8HX, UK. Tel: +44 1206 792234; Fax: +44 1206 793004.
applications, as well as specialising in high efficiency filtration and membrane technology for gas separation. The business is split into compressed air filtration/ conditioning and gas generation, Parker expects the acquisition to be moderately accretive to 2001 earning• According to John Oelslager, president of Parker's Filtration group, the Industrial business will significantly broaden the product range of the group in the areas of compressed air filtration and gas generation.
Dow expands membrane facility According to Dow Chemical Co of Midland, Michigan, USA, its Liquid Separations business is doubling the size of its Filmtec TM membrane manufacturing facility in order to meet the growing global demand for reverse osmosis (RO) water purification technology.
Approximately US$35 million will be invested in the plant, which is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The expansion includes third generation membrane line technology and fourth generation automated fabrication technology. The company also plans to increase the
manufacturing workforce by up to a third over the course of this year. Filmtec membrane modules are precision and machine fabricated, which says Dow makes them faster and more efficient to produce than other traditionally manufactured membrane modules. In addition, the
membrane surface area for treating water inside the Filmtec module is claimed to be significantly larger than other membrane modules. Contact:The Dow Chemical Co, Larkin Lab, 1691 N Swede, Midland, MI 48674, USA. Tel: +517 363 9086.
for rellaole, cos[-eITecuve mtrauon systems mar combine maximum permrmance with minlmal m a i n T c e ,
•
,LFILTER I
callwlBlglfilter UK - the new force in UK filtration.
Bollfilter U . . Limited, Co erce Park, 'tehall Road, Colchester, Essex CO2 8HX, England Tel: (01206) 792234 Fax: (01206) 793004 E-mail: [email protected] ~,~'vc.bollfiheruk.de
Automatic
& Manual Filtration
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