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Flanders acquires air filter facility
April 1997
PALL TO MANUFACTURE IN IRELAND Pall Corporation has received a grant of financial assistance from Ireland's Industrial Development Authority to set up a manufacturing plant in the country. Pall is now proceeding with the purchase of a modern, 170 000 sq ft facility in Tipperary to manufacture healthcare products for the European market. Pall Corporation is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of fine disposable filters, membranes and other fluid clarification and separation devices lor the healthcare, aeropower and fluid processing markets. The company has annual sales of more than US$1 billion.
M E M T E C IN US$60 MILLION FACILITY AGREEMENT Memtec Ltd has signed a US$60 million multi-option, multi-currency facility agreement between the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Memtec Limited, Memtec America Corp and Memtec Finance Inc. The facility follows the issue nf senior notes by Memtec Finance in June 1996, and provides Memtec with lunded credit facilities for working capital, capital expenditure and future unidentified acquisitions. While the facility is based and managed from the USA, it can be drawndown in a wide range of currencies and countries.
CULLIGAN BUYS UK ENGINEERING COMPANY In an US$8 million deal, Culligan Water Technologies Inc has acquired Dewplan Limited, a UK-based water engineering and contracting company specialising in large-
Filtration Industry Analyst
scale water treatment systems ment. Copies of the corporate UK DISTRIBUTION and project construction. video are available from OsFOR MET ONE Dewplan has annual sales of monics Inc, 5951 Clearwater P R O D U C T LINE approximately US$21 million. Drive, Minnetonka, Minnesota Commenting on the acquisition, 553-8995, USA. Pacific Scientific Ltd of High Douglas A Pertz, Culligan's Tel: +1 612 933 2277; Wycombe, UK is to distribute president and chief executive Fax: +1 612 933 0141. Met One Inc's particle countofficer said: 'We anticipate the ing instruments in the UK. Dewplan acquisition to signifiMet One Inc was acquired by SCHULLER cantly enhance our industrial Pacific Scientific Company in operations in global markets'. ACQUIRES December 1995, joining the InERGON struments Group of Pacific SciNEW H A Y W A R D N O N W O V E N S INC entific which comprised High Yield Technology and HIAC ACQUISITION SchuUer Corp has acquired Royco. Hayward Industrial Products substantially all of the assets Inc of Elizabeth, New Jersey, of Ergon Nonwovens Inc, a has announced the acquisition manufacturer of melt-blown FLANDERS of the liquid filtration busi- roll goods used in applications ACQUIRES AIR ness of American Felt and Fil- such as air and liquid filtraFILTER FACILITY ter Company of Newburgh, tion, polypropylene sorbents, surgical face masks and sin- Flanders Corporation has acNew York. The acquisition expands gle-use respirators. quired the assets of BB&D Harvey Perry, Schuller's Hayward's product range beManufacturingRntermounta yond metallic and non-metallic senior vice president, performin Painting and Subassembly, filters, strainers and industrial ance materials business, said located in Salt Lake City, flow control products to include that in addition to providing Utah. bag filter housings and filtration complementary products and The new facility will be bags for industrial and commer- technology for Schuller's filtraformed into a new subsidiary, tion business, Ergon was a cial applications. leader in polypropylene s o l Air Seal West, to meet demand bent products. The acquisition for its filter housing and comPALL BUYS INTO will expand Schuller's market mercial HVAC products in the OILTOOLS base significantly. Ergon Non- US market. Flanders Corporawovens, headquartered in Jack- tion designs, manufactures and INTERNATIONAL son, Mississippi, operates one markets a full range of air filtraPall Corporation has ac- manufacturing facility in Rich- tion products from high perquired a 20 per cent stake in land, Mississippi and employs formance laminar flow high Oiltools International Ltd, a 100 people. Financial terms of efficiency particulate filters and charcoal filters for semiconducspecialised oilfield service the deal were not disclosed. tor manufacturing facilities to company headquartered in residential furnace filters. Singapore. Oiltools currently sells, distributes and provides certain manufacturing services for Pall Corporation's family of sand control products for use in oil and gas wells. The US$5 million deal will give Pall two seats on Oiltools' board of directors.
OSMONICS LAUNCHES CORPORATE VIDEO Osmonics Inc has produced a video, A Day in the Life, outlining how the company's products and systems improve daily life for a family. The video also describes Osmonics' corporate develop-
DOMNICK HUNTER BUYS ZANDER
Domnick Hunter Group plc, the Tyneside, UK-based manufacturer of high efficiency filtration and purification equipment, has acquired the entire share capital of ZANDER Aufbereitungstechnik GmbH for DM16.5 million. Zander, based in Essen, Germany, is a manufacturer of compressed air filters and dryers The company employs 110 people and has annual sales of approximately DM1.6 million. Domnick Hunter's Industrial Division and Zander will integrate their operations worldwide.
MEMTEC EXPANDS WINDSOR FACILITY Memtec Limited has expanded its hollow fibre microfiltration capacity at its Memcor plant in Windsor, Australia. As a result of the capacity expansion, production of membrane fibre has tripled, increasing Memcor's ability to provide engineered filtration systems for industrial filtration, town water and waste water recycle applications. The Windsor facility provides membranes Memtec's global operations.
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PALL TO MANUFACTURE IN IRELAND Pall Corporation has received a grant of financial assistance from Ireland's Industrial Development Authority to set up a manufacturing plant in the country. Pall is now proceeding with the purchase of a modern, 170 000 sq ft facility in Tipperary to manufacture healthcare products for the European market. Pall Corporation is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of fine disposable filters, membranes and other fluid clarification and separation devices lor the healthcare, aeropower and fluid processing markets. The company has annual sales of more than US$1 billion.
M E M T E C IN US$60 MILLION FACILITY AGREEMENT Memtec Ltd has signed a US$60 million multi-option, multi-currency facility agreement between the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Memtec Limited, Memtec America Corp and Memtec Finance Inc. The facility follows the issue nf senior notes by Memtec Finance in June 1996, and provides Memtec with lunded credit facilities for working capital, capital expenditure and future unidentified acquisitions. While the facility is based and managed from the USA, it can be drawndown in a wide range of currencies and countries.
CULLIGAN BUYS UK ENGINEERING COMPANY In an US$8 million deal, Culligan Water Technologies Inc has acquired Dewplan Limited, a UK-based water engineering and contracting company specialising in large-
Filtration Industry Analyst
scale water treatment systems ment. Copies of the corporate UK DISTRIBUTION and project construction. video are available from OsFOR MET ONE Dewplan has annual sales of monics Inc, 5951 Clearwater P R O D U C T LINE approximately US$21 million. Drive, Minnetonka, Minnesota Commenting on the acquisition, 553-8995, USA. Pacific Scientific Ltd of High Douglas A Pertz, Culligan's Tel: +1 612 933 2277; Wycombe, UK is to distribute president and chief executive Fax: +1 612 933 0141. Met One Inc's particle countofficer said: 'We anticipate the ing instruments in the UK. Dewplan acquisition to signifiMet One Inc was acquired by SCHULLER cantly enhance our industrial Pacific Scientific Company in operations in global markets'. ACQUIRES December 1995, joining the InERGON struments Group of Pacific SciNEW H A Y W A R D N O N W O V E N S INC entific which comprised High Yield Technology and HIAC ACQUISITION SchuUer Corp has acquired Royco. Hayward Industrial Products substantially all of the assets Inc of Elizabeth, New Jersey, of Ergon Nonwovens Inc, a has announced the acquisition manufacturer of melt-blown FLANDERS of the liquid filtration busi- roll goods used in applications ACQUIRES AIR ness of American Felt and Fil- such as air and liquid filtraFILTER FACILITY ter Company of Newburgh, tion, polypropylene sorbents, surgical face masks and sin- Flanders Corporation has acNew York. The acquisition expands gle-use respirators. quired the assets of BB&D Harvey Perry, Schuller's Hayward's product range beManufacturingRntermounta yond metallic and non-metallic senior vice president, performin Painting and Subassembly, filters, strainers and industrial ance materials business, said located in Salt Lake City, flow control products to include that in addition to providing Utah. bag filter housings and filtration complementary products and The new facility will be bags for industrial and commer- technology for Schuller's filtraformed into a new subsidiary, tion business, Ergon was a cial applications. leader in polypropylene s o l Air Seal West, to meet demand bent products. The acquisition for its filter housing and comPALL BUYS INTO will expand Schuller's market mercial HVAC products in the OILTOOLS base significantly. Ergon Non- US market. Flanders Corporawovens, headquartered in Jack- tion designs, manufactures and INTERNATIONAL son, Mississippi, operates one markets a full range of air filtraPall Corporation has ac- manufacturing facility in Rich- tion products from high perquired a 20 per cent stake in land, Mississippi and employs formance laminar flow high Oiltools International Ltd, a 100 people. Financial terms of efficiency particulate filters and charcoal filters for semiconducspecialised oilfield service the deal were not disclosed. tor manufacturing facilities to company headquartered in residential furnace filters. Singapore. Oiltools currently sells, distributes and provides certain manufacturing services for Pall Corporation's family of sand control products for use in oil and gas wells. The US$5 million deal will give Pall two seats on Oiltools' board of directors.
OSMONICS LAUNCHES CORPORATE VIDEO Osmonics Inc has produced a video, A Day in the Life, outlining how the company's products and systems improve daily life for a family. The video also describes Osmonics' corporate develop-
DOMNICK HUNTER BUYS ZANDER
Domnick Hunter Group plc, the Tyneside, UK-based manufacturer of high efficiency filtration and purification equipment, has acquired the entire share capital of ZANDER Aufbereitungstechnik GmbH for DM16.5 million. Zander, based in Essen, Germany, is a manufacturer of compressed air filters and dryers The company employs 110 people and has annual sales of approximately DM1.6 million. Domnick Hunter's Industrial Division and Zander will integrate their operations worldwide.
MEMTEC EXPANDS WINDSOR FACILITY Memtec Limited has expanded its hollow fibre microfiltration capacity at its Memcor plant in Windsor, Australia. As a result of the capacity expansion, production of membrane fibre has tripled, increasing Memcor's ability to provide engineered filtration systems for industrial filtration, town water and waste water recycle applications. The Windsor facility provides membranes Memtec's global operations.
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