Filter media investment

Filter media investment

Waste treatment technology licensed

Ahlstrom

Paper Group

quartered

in Finland,

US$IO

million

(ElO.5

Oy, headis to invest million)

in

capacity

and product

capability. According

to Ahlstrom,

this investment

the only one in the

capable of producing the high qual-

ness for US$275

ity media that the engine filtration

The deal is expected

market demands such as water and

ed before the end of the year.

in the

TheTaylorville

facility in Illinois

is to have a saturation unit installed

solvent

that

production

MR3,

to Modular

Technologies of

the company’s

based

media,

in a single

site.

Corp’s

Nonwoven

Dexter’s

Materials million

busi-

in cash.

to be complet-

nonwoven

business

had net sales of $285 million 1999.

Environmental

Inc

processing

will increase

USA that is

Paper

has agreed to buy US based Dexter

facility

USA, has licensed its metals extractechnology,

the recent

that Ahlstrom

division’s filter

production

tion

separation

news follows

media

Systems Inc of San Fran&co,

and

will make the mill

This

announcement

one of its Filtration

USA. MR3

production

(MET)

for

the

electro-galvanizing

line effluent from a major steel producer in the USA. The

MR3

technology

used to extract from

will be

iron and zinc metals

the effluent,

both

will either be returned

of which to the pro-

duction line or used in outside markets. This is the first licensing

commercial

agreement

Systems

for

and the company

to enter

into

further

MR3 expects

agreements

with MET, including a multi-million dollar

deal for the processing

electric

arc furnace

of

dust generated

from carbon steel mill manufacturing activities. venture strategic

Licensing

agreements partners

als separations

and joint with

other

for different metare currently

also

under negotiation. The MR3 technology high affinity refining,

metal

waste

extracts

metal

decontamination,

and water purification integrated

combines

capture,

into a single

system.

It

selectively

individual metals and sepa-

rates them into high purity fractions using a cost-effective, cess

in

an

treatment exchange

passive pro-

automated, plant.

modular

Metallic

media remove

any targeted solutions,

metal

ion

and purify

from

converting

aqueous hazardous

waste into useful products. Targeted markets include: metal finishing and plating; electronic cuit board and microchip turing;

water

deionization; mining,

purification

soil remediation;

in particular,

and

FILTRATION contact:

MR3 Systems, Pier 54, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Tel: +l 415 947-1090; Fax: +1415

and

the recovery

of precious metals.

For more information

cir-

manufac-

AND SEPARATION

WITH SOLID WEAVE METAL WOVEN

CLOTH FROM GKD.

GKD-Gebr. Kufferath GmbH & Co.KG Business Unit Filtration and Separation Metallweberstrabe D - 52348 Dtiren Phone: (+49) 24 21/803-O Internet www.gkd.de eMail: gbl@ gkd.de The Reader Enquiry for this advertisement

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is 504

947 1095.

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2000

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