New name, new image, new ethos

New name, new image, new ethos Following

the &51 million

million) last

management

(Filtmtion+Sepnration,

year

January/February Scapa Specialty officially

2000,

p.

Materials

launched

corporate

(US08 1

buy out late

4),

Division its

new

identity last month. The

of

the

investment

channelled

and development. is

group experts

is

into product

being research

Currently,

recruiting

the

scientific

and forming

links with

universities and research institutes. The

group

plans to create three

filtration specialist is now known as

centres

Madison Filter.

the UK, Australia and the USA. He

The

Madison

Filter

employs approximately worldwide

and is forecast

an annual turnover

(US$ 1.1

of f70

It

billion).

operations

went

on

to

in

say that it would

develop,

taking

million

current

strategic

companies

Germany,

excellence

carefully choose which products to

to have

comprises

in the UK,

Asia, South Africa,

Group

950 people

of research

into

account

alliances

its with

such as DuPont, Vivendi

Water and Baker Process.

USA, Australia

The group’s objectives by 2002

and Brazil, as well as three applied

are to be the leader in its chosen

filtration divisions, namely National

niche markets, to have 40% of its

Wire

sales from

Fabric,

USA,

Scandiafelt,

Sweden, and United Wire, UK. The n&v group is focussing on the wastewater, oil & gas, chemicals, mining,

pulp

and

developments,

to

expand

its market

share through

acquisitions.

environmental

Richard

markets, with product technologies such as monofilament

new

achieve 10% organic growth and to

Stephenson

summed

up the new company by saying that

belts, woven

Madison

metal filters using high quality alloys,

filtration

microporous

coatings,

simple supplier of filter media.

modification

and

surface

Filter was a provider solutions

of

rather than a

Contact: Madison Filter Group

elastomeric

Ltd, Knowsley Road Industrial

welding. Richard Executive Filter said

Stephenson, Officer

of

asubstantial

that

Chief Madison amount

Estate, Haslingden,

BB4 4EJ,

UK. Tel: +44 1706 239500; Fax: f44

1706 239507.

Taiwanese centrifuge order extended Zentrifuge Broadbent

specialist

Thomas

nominal bowl

81 Sons Ltd’s Industrial

Process division has won a further

and

xder

from Formosa

Fibres

Corp,

Taipei,

xtpply centrifuges

The

for

temperatures

Taiwan,

to

pressure of 10 bar.

~1.75

the

Julie Hurney

+44 (011539 825 200 or fax l-44 (0)1539 825 201

http://www.hepair.com UK Waterford Bridge Kentmere Cumbrio LAB 9JJ England UK E MAIL: [email protected]

6

May 2000

capacity

of

units.

The

The centrifuges, have a discharge and will provide

slurry dewatering

of pure

forecast

and

compared

centrifugal demand

produce

to other

dewatering for

PTA

10% in the next seven to ten years.

Contnct:Thomas

Broadbent

&

n the production of polyester fibres.

Huddersjeld,

&mding

Tel: +44 1484 422111; Fax: +44

decanters

has

a

is

to increase by more than

Sons Ltd, Queen Street South,

horizontal

its

and higher

:erephthalic acid (PTA), which is used

to the company, each of

a

for the PTA

cake moisture

types

he

The Reader Enquiry for this advertisement

lower

solids recovery

>f two previously supplied units.

at

processing industry have the largest available

of two

dewater

to the company,

decanter centx-ifuges and the r-e-sitting

rate of 3.5 tonnes/h

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million

manufacture,

to

185OC under

decanters

1200 mm x 2100 mm solid bowl

&cient

USA

of

According horizontal

nstallation and commission

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designed

&

to its Longden

deal worth is

is

Chemicals

Bctory in Taiwan.

{US$)

speed of 900 rpm,

providing a separation force of 540 g,

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is 506

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