New player in PP filter elements

Air filtration. for mobile power units Altair Filter Co, the US based sister company

Altair

of

International, recently over The AFS Society’s meeting

is

focussing

technologies

new

including

municipal One

on

for water/wastewater

treatment

pm-e,

and industrial

of

meeting

annual summer

the

highlights

E Baumann,

internationally experience

known

in both

developed

countries.

address

sessions.

The

comprises

of

speaker

the

speech

with

developing

and

followed next

day

also

sessions.

lunch

(to

by four

be

There

and luncheon

announced)

each

For

information

contact: near

Hyatt

on the

Regency

Disneyland

hate.

Alicante.

Park,

A special

of US$l 15 for

rate

single or double room is available at the Hyatt Regency

Alicante

until 3

July (ask for the AFS Society

rate

when booking).

UK

has

fulfilled a contract

US$2

filtration

million

systems

worth

to supply air

for

five mobile

power plants. Each of the mobile power plants

at Harbor

Blvd & Chapman Avenue, PO Box

comprise

4669,

units. Altair supplied and equipped

Anaheim,

CA

Tel: +l 714750

92803,

USA,

1234; Fax: +1’714

four

For more information

filtration

on the

conference contact:AFS

Society,

PO Box 1530, Northport, 35476, USA. Tel: +1205

coils,

system,

efficiency

anti

ducting

The

incorporates

6111; Fax: +1 205 333 6446.

the air intake

system consists of an air

intake

silencer.

AL 333

trailer-mounted

the trailer containing system.This

971 1721.

day.

who is an expert

begins with the

four

will a group

in many areas of water

treatment

keynote

waters.

will be the keynote

by Robert

The conference

Filters

Alton,

ice-chiller and intake

air filtration

system

Altair’s Supernova high filters

designed

for the

generation

p0WX

market,

According to Altair, it has a high dust

_New player PP filter elements Filtrust GmbH

+

Germany,

in

USFilter enters sales venture with USFilter,

has entered into an agreement

Co

the BetzDearborn

of

a

polypropylene

Nersingen,

newly

formed

paper

filter

element

Trevose,

(PP)

developer and manufacturer.

several

the-art ftishing consumption year.

The

membrane

high

presses

divisions

facility capacity

and a state-of-

water chemicals.

will be 1.5 tonnes per

projects,

will

filter elements

include chamber

and frames.

capital

and

covers

industrial

operating resources,

new

and includes

GmbH + Co, Im Riedle 3, D-

operations

and maintenance,

chemical

managing

industrial water treatment

Fax: +49 7308 966120.

Initially

joint

and

systems.

venture

will

expertise, and products

will

be

able

source

for

management

to the

of water

wastewater

treatment

loss

and

over

The

a

its

system

eliminator,

lower

operating

also contains

the Hydra high velocity

moisture

which removes droplets

down to the micron range to ensure condensation does

not

in the chilling section

reach

the

turbine.

The

other three units consist of the gas turbine

and

generator,

exhaust

system and ancillary equipment. The equipment was delivered in February USA,

systems.

to

GE Energy

a division

of

Rentals,

GE

Power

Systems set up to provide turnkey

Commenting

on

Micksey, general

companies total

customers’

Tel: +49 7308 96610;

they

the

vice

of

said,

both

will be able to assume

responsibility

operation

deal,

president

manager

BetzDearborn,

engineering,

industry

technical

a single

and

and

outsourcing

equipment,

the

provide

companies,

their

experience

William

treatment

to both

coordinating

know-how,

and municipal

and wastewater

the

Germany.

by

and

as well as existing business

markets

According

and process

Filtrust KunststoflPresswerk

89278 Nersingen,

to

on the North America

market.

optnnum

agreement

in the water

Inc,

USA,

equipment

Hercules’

The

products

feed

treatment

plant, The initial PP

filter elements,

of Hercules

sell USFilter’s

chemical

with

capacity

lifetime.

concentrate

and the pulp and

Pennsylvania,

jointly

Its 22 000 ft* production

conversion

a Vivendi water company,

Kunststoff-Presswerk

is

contains

BHzDearborn

loading pressure

for

the

of any water system from

the ground-up.

solutions

for

temporary

power

needs in situations such as disaster and emergency GE’s

power

relief rental

operations. service

will

initially focus on the US.

Altair Filters International, Omage Park, Alton, GU34 ZQE, UK. Tel: +44 1420 541188; Fax: +44 1420 541298.

On-line

filtration

eFiltration.com,

a leading

business-to-business

announced

interVentures internet invest

industry,

that

divine

Inc, a Chicago based

operating US$lO

online

enterprise

that serves the filtration has

enterprise

company, million

in

Filtration+Separation

is to the

company,

receives multi-million

also based

in Chicago,

USA.

solidifying

the

company’s

position in the filtration industry.

According CEO

reach,

dollar

and

eFiltration.com,

to

Brandon

co-founder the funding

Ost, of

eFiltration.com site

which

brings

will

resellers

of filtration

be used to expand its products and

services

together

services,

customers

as well as its geographical

is a internet

investment

select products on-line

and services

catalogues

using

and auctions.

Also in the near future a library of

users

and

free technical support dedicated to

products

and

the

and

enables

to search, compare

and

filtration

industry

will

be

available on-line. The site address is

www.eEltration.com.

March

2000

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