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New brand integrates Rochem, Sepro Membranes and APTwater
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Filtration Company Advanced Mem-Tech Ahlstrom Alfa Laval Amiad Andritz APTwater Asahi Kasei BASF Bilfinger BioteQ Biwater BluMetric Environmental Calgon Carbon Cantel Medical CECO Environmental Clarcor Crane Cummins Desalitech Donaldson Dow Dow Water & Process Solutions DuPont Eaton Entegris Envirogen Esco Technologies Evoqua Water Techmnologies Fiberweb FLSmidth Foster Wheeler GE GEA GKD GLV GUD Holdings H2O Innovation Hyflux IDE Technologies Indutrade ItN Nanovation ITT Lanxess LiqTech Lindsay Lydall 3M Memstar Merck Metso MFRI Miteco Mycelx Technologies Nederman Nitto Outotec Pall Parker Hannifin Pentair PMFG Polypore Porvair Puradyn Rochem Sartorius Schweitzer-Mauduit Sepro Membranes Seychelle Environmental Siemens SKF SPX Sulzer Tetra Pak Tomoe Engineering Toray Toyobo Ultura United Envirotech Valmet Veolia Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Watts Water Weir Minerals Woongjin Chemical Xylem
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Lydall invests in new filtration manufacturing
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ydall Inc has officially commissioned a new wet-laid manufacturing asset to produce filtration media for its Performance Materials business headquartered in Rochester, New Hampshire, USA. The new Mini Mill, a state-of-the-art, wet-laid nonwovens production line, is designed to be flexible and more responsive to the needs of customers. The compact, flexible line will provide customers with customised high quality products in smaller batch sizes. “Since 2007 we have been working on transforming Lydall to better focus on our customers, our employees, and our processes to produce high quality products. With the new Mini Mill, we have a world class asset that can produce filtration media of high quality standards, in a cost-effective manner that will secure a competitive advantage for us on a global basis,” explained Dale Barnhart, Lydall’s president and CEO. For further information, visit www.lydall.com
Toray seals Woongjin Chemical share purchase
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oray Industries Inc subsidiary Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc has completed its purchase of a 56% stake in Woongjin Chemical Co Ltd (see Filtration Industry Analyst, November 2013). Woongjin Chemical’s CSM filter division manufactures reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, and microfiltration membrane products. Toray Advanced Materials Korea’s products include water treatment membrane modules. Toray retained Nomura Securities Co Ltd as its financial advisor on the transaction. Last year, Silicon Valley membrane startup Porifera Inc closed Series A financing and a development, manufacturing and commercialisation agreement with Woongjin
Chemical Ltd (see Filtration Industry Analyst, August 2013). For further information, visit www.toray.com, www. wjchemical.com and www.csmfilter.com
Tetra Pak buys Miteco
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etra Pak has acquired Switzerland-based Miteco, a provider of production solutions, including filtration systems, for soft drinks, fruit juices and liquid food. Established in 1982, Miteco is a privately held company with 70 employees across sites in Switzerland, Italy, UK and South America. “The acquisition of Miteco positions Tetra Pak as a world leader in production solutions for carbonated soft drinks, with an unrivalled product portfolio backed by strong technical support and broad geographic presence,” said Tim High, executive vice president of Tetra Pak Processing Systems. “It also extends the company’s beverage production capabilities in a number of key areas, including sugar handling, dissolving, refining, mixing and blending beverage ingredients, providing an important complement to our existing portfolio of processing solutions.” Miteco sales and operations director Guillermo Fernandez added: “We are confident that becoming part of Tetra Pak will allow the Miteco business to continue to grow. Tetra Pak’s global presence, plus the combined knowledge and skills of our two companies, promise improved solutions and better services for both existing and future customers worldwide.”
For further information, visit www.tetrapak.com and www.miteco.com
New brand integrates Rochem, Sepro Membranes and APTwater
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LTURA is the new brand name for the combined Rochem, Sepro Membranes and APTwater businesses. ULTURA Inc CEO John Kaestle said that the integration creates a new force
March 2014
NEWS/DIVIDENDS in high recovery membrane technologies specialising in the most difficult to treat and valuable waters. Focus markets for ULTURA include rare earths and mining, treatment of leachate from landfill sites, on-vessel grey/black water treatment and desalination for marine ecosystems, electro-coating for the automotive industry, food and dairy and advanced process separations for life sciences. Michael Froud, chief growth officer of ULTURA, said: “Our combined portfolio of products and services will allow us to pursue our vision of becoming the only truly full-service membrane technology company to specialise solely on the difficult-to-treat and valuable waters segment. With 2500+ installations worldwide, an established presence in the Americas and EMEA plus our growing Asia team based out of Singapore and Shanghai, we will provide our customers with one of the largest pools of dedicated expertise in the world.” ULTURA expects to shortly announce new product developments in functionalised membranes and new service offerings such as off-balance sheet funding of design-buildown-operate-maintain schemes. For further information, visit www.ulturawater.com
Hyflux to divest JV stake
Hyflux will continue to expand and develop integral membrane technology for applications across industries including industrial and municipal markets. Meanwhile Hyflux Consumer Products Pte Ltd (HCP) is also selling its 49% equity interest in sales and marketing company Marmon Hyflux Investments Pte Ltd to joint venture partner Marmon Water (Singapore) Pte Ltd. The divestment is part of the group’s ongoing rationalisation of partnerships. For further information, visit www.hyflux.com
Porvair Filtration produces first aerospace filters in the US
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orvair Filtration Group’s production facility in Ashland, Virginia, USA is now manufacturing last chance filters for the aerospace industry, in order to cope with increased demand. The company has invested in and increased its capabilities at the Ashland manufacturing facility. Increased competences include resistance welding, fusion welding and the ability to meet stringent aerospace standards.
For further information, visit www.porvairfiltration.com
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yflux Ltd has entered into an agreement to sell its 50% equity interest in Hyflux Marmon Development Pte Ltd to joint venture partner Marmon Water (Singapore) Pte Ltd for US$43.4 million. Hyflux Marmon Development Pte Ltd focuses on water treatment research and development, with an emphasis on combined membrane and media filtration. The technologies, which have been applied and integrated into a wide range of consumer applications, are non-integral to Hyflux’s realigned product focus and existing suite of consumer products.
March 2014
CECO Environmental signs Chinese sales alliance with Rehne Environmental
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ECO Environmental Corp has formalised a sales cooperation agreement with Jiangsu Renhe Environmental Equipments Co Ltd. The two companies will focus on bringing
air pollution control technology solutions to the growing China market by leveraging product portfolios, fabrication bases and sales channels. UÊ / iÊ Pentair Ltd board of directors has Renhe Environmental specialises inapprove dust recommended that shareholders collector and filter a proposal at cartridge the 2014technology annual general products withtosales Shanghai, meeting pay locations quarterly incash dividends Guangzhou, Xi’an and Ha’erbin through the second quarter ofCity. 2015. The The new partnership target critical proposed dividend ofwill US$1.20 per share applications across industrialcapital would be madea range out ofof Pentair’s markets, such as general metals, in contribution reserve industry, to shareholders petrochemical, chemical,ofplastics, and quarterly instalments US$0.30 per share cement, andthird will and include CECO`s for the fourth quarters of 2014 FisherKlosterman Cyclones, Dual Scrubbers, and the first and second quarters of 2015. CECO Filtration and Flex-Kleen Dust per Pentair paid dividends of US$0.96 Collection share inTechnologies. 2013. If the dividend proposal is CECO Environmental CEO Jeff Langwill said approved, the 2014 dividend increase that mark Chinathe is a38th critical part of his consecutive yearcompany’s in which growth strategy. “Developing sales alliances Pentair has increased its dividend. Pentair’s and relationships companies like for Renhe annual generalwith meeting is scheduled 20 Environmental May 2014. is a great example of our strategic initiative in the region, and we are www.pentair.com glad to work Inc’s with regular such quality partners. We UÊ Clarcor quarterly dividend will continue to look ways to of US$0.17 perforshare of further common penetrate market in China stock the willdomestic be paid on 21 April 2014asto part shareholders of our multifaceted growth strategy,” of record on 7 April 2014. said Lang. www.clarcor.com UÊ CECO Environmental Corp’s board has approved quarterly dividend and of For further information, avisit www.cecoenviro.com US$0.05 per share, which will be paid www.rhfilter.com on 31 March 2014. www.cecoenviro.com UÊ Sulzer Ltd will pay an unchanged dividend of CHF3.20 per share for 2013 to shareholders. www.sulzer.com UÊ Metso Corp’s 2013 E1.00 per share dividend will be paid on 8 April 2014. www.metso.com UÊ ÀÊÌ iÊÓä£ÎÊv>V>ÊÞi>À]ÊNederman isephros proposing dividend of SEK4.00 Incaand Cantel Medicalper share. Corp’s Mar Cor Purification have www.nederman.com signed a non-exclusive distributor UÊ ÊCummins quarterly Nephros’s common stock agreement to Inc distribute cash dividend of US$0.625 per share was dialysis ultrafilters to US and paid on dialysis 3 March 2014 to shareholders of Canadian clinics. recordWeitnauer, on 21 February 2014.and CEO Curtis president www.cummins.com of Mar Cor Purification, said: “We are UÊ Donaldson Inc’s regular very excited aboutCo incorporating the cash dividend of US$0.14family per share was paid Nephros ultrafiltration of products on 7 March 2014. for hemodialysis water and bicarbonate www.donaldson.com concentrate into our product portfolio for
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Mar Cor Purification to distribute Nephros dialysis ultrafilters in US and Canada
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Filtration Company Advanced Mem-Tech Ahlstrom Alfa Laval Amiad Andritz APTwater Asahi Kasei BASF Bilfinger BioteQ Biwater BluMetric Environmental Calgon Carbon Cantel Medical CECO Environmental Clarcor Crane Cummins Desalitech Donaldson Dow Dow Water & Process Solutions DuPont Eaton Entegris Envirogen Esco Technologies Evoqua Water Techmnologies Fiberweb FLSmidth Foster Wheeler GE GEA GKD GLV GUD Holdings H2O Innovation Hyflux IDE Technologies Indutrade ItN Nanovation ITT Lanxess LiqTech Lindsay Lydall 3M Memstar Merck Metso MFRI Miteco Mycelx Technologies Nederman Nitto Outotec Pall Parker Hannifin Pentair PMFG Polypore Porvair Puradyn Rochem Sartorius Schweitzer-Mauduit Sepro Membranes Seychelle Environmental Siemens SKF SPX Sulzer Tetra Pak Tomoe Engineering Toray Toyobo Ultura United Envirotech Valmet Veolia Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Watts Water Weir Minerals Woongjin Chemical Xylem
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Lydall invests in new filtration manufacturing
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ydall Inc has officially commissioned a new wet-laid manufacturing asset to produce filtration media for its Performance Materials business headquartered in Rochester, New Hampshire, USA. The new Mini Mill, a state-of-the-art, wet-laid nonwovens production line, is designed to be flexible and more responsive to the needs of customers. The compact, flexible line will provide customers with customised high quality products in smaller batch sizes. “Since 2007 we have been working on transforming Lydall to better focus on our customers, our employees, and our processes to produce high quality products. With the new Mini Mill, we have a world class asset that can produce filtration media of high quality standards, in a cost-effective manner that will secure a competitive advantage for us on a global basis,” explained Dale Barnhart, Lydall’s president and CEO. For further information, visit www.lydall.com
Toray seals Woongjin Chemical share purchase
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oray Industries Inc subsidiary Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc has completed its purchase of a 56% stake in Woongjin Chemical Co Ltd (see Filtration Industry Analyst, November 2013). Woongjin Chemical’s CSM filter division manufactures reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, and microfiltration membrane products. Toray Advanced Materials Korea’s products include water treatment membrane modules. Toray retained Nomura Securities Co Ltd as its financial advisor on the transaction. Last year, Silicon Valley membrane startup Porifera Inc closed Series A financing and a development, manufacturing and commercialisation agreement with Woongjin
Chemical Ltd (see Filtration Industry Analyst, August 2013). For further information, visit www.toray.com, www. wjchemical.com and www.csmfilter.com
Tetra Pak buys Miteco
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etra Pak has acquired Switzerland-based Miteco, a provider of production solutions, including filtration systems, for soft drinks, fruit juices and liquid food. Established in 1982, Miteco is a privately held company with 70 employees across sites in Switzerland, Italy, UK and South America. “The acquisition of Miteco positions Tetra Pak as a world leader in production solutions for carbonated soft drinks, with an unrivalled product portfolio backed by strong technical support and broad geographic presence,” said Tim High, executive vice president of Tetra Pak Processing Systems. “It also extends the company’s beverage production capabilities in a number of key areas, including sugar handling, dissolving, refining, mixing and blending beverage ingredients, providing an important complement to our existing portfolio of processing solutions.” Miteco sales and operations director Guillermo Fernandez added: “We are confident that becoming part of Tetra Pak will allow the Miteco business to continue to grow. Tetra Pak’s global presence, plus the combined knowledge and skills of our two companies, promise improved solutions and better services for both existing and future customers worldwide.”
For further information, visit www.tetrapak.com and www.miteco.com
New brand integrates Rochem, Sepro Membranes and APTwater
U
LTURA is the new brand name for the combined Rochem, Sepro Membranes and APTwater businesses. ULTURA Inc CEO John Kaestle said that the integration creates a new force
March 2014
NEWS/DIVIDENDS in high recovery membrane technologies specialising in the most difficult to treat and valuable waters. Focus markets for ULTURA include rare earths and mining, treatment of leachate from landfill sites, on-vessel grey/black water treatment and desalination for marine ecosystems, electro-coating for the automotive industry, food and dairy and advanced process separations for life sciences. Michael Froud, chief growth officer of ULTURA, said: “Our combined portfolio of products and services will allow us to pursue our vision of becoming the only truly full-service membrane technology company to specialise solely on the difficult-to-treat and valuable waters segment. With 2500+ installations worldwide, an established presence in the Americas and EMEA plus our growing Asia team based out of Singapore and Shanghai, we will provide our customers with one of the largest pools of dedicated expertise in the world.” ULTURA expects to shortly announce new product developments in functionalised membranes and new service offerings such as off-balance sheet funding of design-buildown-operate-maintain schemes. For further information, visit www.ulturawater.com
Hyflux to divest JV stake
Hyflux will continue to expand and develop integral membrane technology for applications across industries including industrial and municipal markets. Meanwhile Hyflux Consumer Products Pte Ltd (HCP) is also selling its 49% equity interest in sales and marketing company Marmon Hyflux Investments Pte Ltd to joint venture partner Marmon Water (Singapore) Pte Ltd. The divestment is part of the group’s ongoing rationalisation of partnerships. For further information, visit www.hyflux.com
Porvair Filtration produces first aerospace filters in the US
P
orvair Filtration Group’s production facility in Ashland, Virginia, USA is now manufacturing last chance filters for the aerospace industry, in order to cope with increased demand. The company has invested in and increased its capabilities at the Ashland manufacturing facility. Increased competences include resistance welding, fusion welding and the ability to meet stringent aerospace standards.
For further information, visit www.porvairfiltration.com
H
yflux Ltd has entered into an agreement to sell its 50% equity interest in Hyflux Marmon Development Pte Ltd to joint venture partner Marmon Water (Singapore) Pte Ltd for US$43.4 million. Hyflux Marmon Development Pte Ltd focuses on water treatment research and development, with an emphasis on combined membrane and media filtration. The technologies, which have been applied and integrated into a wide range of consumer applications, are non-integral to Hyflux’s realigned product focus and existing suite of consumer products.
March 2014
CECO Environmental signs Chinese sales alliance with Rehne Environmental
C
ECO Environmental Corp has formalised a sales cooperation agreement with Jiangsu Renhe Environmental Equipments Co Ltd. The two companies will focus on bringing
air pollution control technology solutions to the growing China market by leveraging product portfolios, fabrication bases and sales channels. UÊ / iÊ Pentair Ltd board of directors has Renhe Environmental specialises inapprove dust recommended that shareholders collector and filter a proposal at cartridge the 2014technology annual general products withtosales Shanghai, meeting pay locations quarterly incash dividends Guangzhou, Xi’an and Ha’erbin through the second quarter ofCity. 2015. The The new partnership target critical proposed dividend ofwill US$1.20 per share applications across industrialcapital would be madea range out ofof Pentair’s markets, such as general metals, in contribution reserve industry, to shareholders petrochemical, chemical,ofplastics, and quarterly instalments US$0.30 per share cement, andthird will and include CECO`s for the fourth quarters of 2014 FisherKlosterman Cyclones, Dual Scrubbers, and the first and second quarters of 2015. CECO Filtration and Flex-Kleen Dust per Pentair paid dividends of US$0.96 Collection share inTechnologies. 2013. If the dividend proposal is CECO Environmental CEO Jeff Langwill said approved, the 2014 dividend increase that mark Chinathe is a38th critical part of his consecutive yearcompany’s in which growth strategy. “Developing sales alliances Pentair has increased its dividend. Pentair’s and relationships companies like for Renhe annual generalwith meeting is scheduled 20 Environmental May 2014. is a great example of our strategic initiative in the region, and we are www.pentair.com glad to work Inc’s with regular such quality partners. We UÊ Clarcor quarterly dividend will continue to look ways to of US$0.17 perforshare of further common penetrate market in China stock the willdomestic be paid on 21 April 2014asto part shareholders of our multifaceted growth strategy,” of record on 7 April 2014. said Lang. www.clarcor.com UÊ CECO Environmental Corp’s board has approved quarterly dividend and of For further information, avisit www.cecoenviro.com US$0.05 per share, which will be paid www.rhfilter.com on 31 March 2014. www.cecoenviro.com UÊ Sulzer Ltd will pay an unchanged dividend of CHF3.20 per share for 2013 to shareholders. www.sulzer.com UÊ Metso Corp’s 2013 E1.00 per share dividend will be paid on 8 April 2014. www.metso.com UÊ ÀÊÌ iÊÓä£ÎÊv>V>ÊÞi>À]ÊNederman isephros proposing dividend of SEK4.00 Incaand Cantel Medicalper share. Corp’s Mar Cor Purification have www.nederman.com signed a non-exclusive distributor UÊ ÊCummins quarterly Nephros’s common stock agreement to Inc distribute cash dividend of US$0.625 per share was dialysis ultrafilters to US and paid on dialysis 3 March 2014 to shareholders of Canadian clinics. recordWeitnauer, on 21 February 2014.and CEO Curtis president www.cummins.com of Mar Cor Purification, said: “We are UÊ Donaldson Inc’s regular very excited aboutCo incorporating the cash dividend of US$0.14family per share was paid Nephros ultrafiltration of products on 7 March 2014. for hemodialysis water and bicarbonate www.donaldson.com concentrate into our product portfolio for
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Mar Cor Purification to distribute Nephros dialysis ultrafilters in US and Canada
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Filtration Industry Analyst
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