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NPD/ECONOMIC REVIEW
Filtration Industry Analyst
May 2005
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• Pall Corp has developed the Mustang XT5000 capsule, designed to tackle a wider range of process chromatography applications. According to Pall, the next-generation ion exchange membrane capsule extends Mustang chromatography's uses beyond removal of contaminants such as DNA, viruses, endotoxins and host cell proteins. It enables super-efficient capture of large molecules, which is especially important for the development of new drugs and therapies that use recombinant proteins, plasmids and other viral vectors, and blood plasma fractions. • German company Mann+ Hummel has developed a more efficient fuel pre-filter for diesel engines. According to the company, the twostage system increases water separation by more than 50%, within the same installation space and with the same service life. The company’s PreLine pre-filter system for commercial vehicles already increases filtration performance, extends the service life of the main filter and protects the pre-feed pump. However, the company claims that its latest development of this pre-filter system substantially improves the efficiency of water separation. In the first stage, small droplets of water emulsified in the fuel are made to coalesce. In the second stage, these drops of water are then separated from the diesel fuel as it passes through the surface of specially developed filter media. This two-stage filter will be used initially in commercial vehicles, but at a later date it will be extended to passenger cars.
• Domestic product manufacturer Mielehas ordered an OTC 2 separator from Westfalia Separator in the company's enamelling plant in Gütersloh, Germany to enable the service life of the lye to be increased from two weeks to five months. This is a cost-effective process with short pay-back times allowing Miele to reduce disposal costs and comply with the increasingly stringent statutory regulations, and could lead to significant cost savings in chemicals, energy and disposal costs, according to Westphalia. “We now have a service life of five months for the lye,” said Michael Glied, head of the Miele enamelling plant. • A city in Oklahoma, USA has selected USFilter’s OMNIFLO® Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) process to be included in the upgrade of its wastewater treatment facility. The approximately $1.5-million dollar project will improve the water quality and is designed to treat 6.0 million gallons of wastewater per day. The OMNIFLO® SBR, will provide the city with a low maintenance system that treats wastewater to a very high effluent. According to Tom Mansur project engineer with engineering firm the Benham Company, “The USFilter SBR system offers the necessary treatment flexibility, efficiency and adaptability. The process will enable the city to meet new discharge limits in a configuration that will be readily expandable in the future. The old RBC treatment process it displaces is unable to meet new limits and was increasingly expensive to maintain.”
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PEOPLE • Millipore Corp of Billerica, Massachusetts, USA, has announced that Susan Vogt, President of its BioPharmaceutical Division is leaving the company to pursue other interests. Martin Madaus, Millipore's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will lead the division until a successor is named. In other news, John Gordon has joined the company as Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Human Resources. He reports directly to Madaus. • Whatman Plc, a UK company that supplies separations technology to the life sciences industry, has appointed Timothy Haines as its Chief Executive. The appointment becomes effective from 1 September 2005. Haines has a broad range of international management experience in the life sciences industry. For the past five years he has been Chief Executive of Astex Technology, a UK-based drug discovery and development company, since joining the founders in early 2000. • Joe Loughrey has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of Cummins Inc. Loughrey has been with Cummins for 31 years during which time he has held a number of leadership positions. Cummins says that Loughrey's move to the position of President is part of a strategic reorganisation that is designed to further promote execution and growth among its businesses. • NETZSCH has appointed Randall M. Smith as Vice President of NETZSCH Fine Particle Technology, LLC, the USA division of NETZSCH-Feinmahltecnik GmbH. NETZSCH manufactures a complete line of
wet and fine dry grinding and classification, mixing and dispersing equipment used in a vast range of applications. • Now that Werner Kohlstette has joined the Executive Board of Westfalia Separator AG, Ludger Konkol has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Westfalia Separator Industry and Olaf Müller has succeeded Werner Kohlstette and is now responsible for sales, marketing and technical development, the company reports. The Executive Board of Westfalia Separator AG has also appointed Anthony vander Ley, Managing Director of Westfalia Separator Food Tec and Member ofthe Division Board of the M-Division, as the Chairman of the Board ofManaging Directors of Westfalia Separator Food Tec with effect from 1January 2005. • Achim Noack, currently Head of Bayer Technology Services Americas, is to become Managing Director of Bayer Technology Services GmbH. He succeeds Dr Wolfram Wagner, 61, who has headed the Bayer service company since its founding on 1 July 2002, as part of the restructuring of the Bayer Group. Dr. Wagner is retiring on June 30, 2005, after 32 years at Bayer. Noack studied chemical engineering at the University of Dortmund, and joined Bayer AG in 1986 as a process engineer with the former Crop Protection Business Group. He was named Head of the Corporate Engineering Department in 2000, and Chief Technology Officer of Bayer Corporation, USA, shortly thereafter.
Filtration Industry Analyst
May 2005
NPD
ORDERS
• Pall Corp has developed the Mustang XT5000 capsule, designed to tackle a wider range of process chromatography applications. According to Pall, the next-generation ion exchange membrane capsule extends Mustang chromatography's uses beyond removal of contaminants such as DNA, viruses, endotoxins and host cell proteins. It enables super-efficient capture of large molecules, which is especially important for the development of new drugs and therapies that use recombinant proteins, plasmids and other viral vectors, and blood plasma fractions. • German company Mann+ Hummel has developed a more efficient fuel pre-filter for diesel engines. According to the company, the twostage system increases water separation by more than 50%, within the same installation space and with the same service life. The company’s PreLine pre-filter system for commercial vehicles already increases filtration performance, extends the service life of the main filter and protects the pre-feed pump. However, the company claims that its latest development of this pre-filter system substantially improves the efficiency of water separation. In the first stage, small droplets of water emulsified in the fuel are made to coalesce. In the second stage, these drops of water are then separated from the diesel fuel as it passes through the surface of specially developed filter media. This two-stage filter will be used initially in commercial vehicles, but at a later date it will be extended to passenger cars.
• Domestic product manufacturer Mielehas ordered an OTC 2 separator from Westfalia Separator in the company's enamelling plant in Gütersloh, Germany to enable the service life of the lye to be increased from two weeks to five months. This is a cost-effective process with short pay-back times allowing Miele to reduce disposal costs and comply with the increasingly stringent statutory regulations, and could lead to significant cost savings in chemicals, energy and disposal costs, according to Westphalia. “We now have a service life of five months for the lye,” said Michael Glied, head of the Miele enamelling plant. • A city in Oklahoma, USA has selected USFilter’s OMNIFLO® Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) process to be included in the upgrade of its wastewater treatment facility. The approximately $1.5-million dollar project will improve the water quality and is designed to treat 6.0 million gallons of wastewater per day. The OMNIFLO® SBR, will provide the city with a low maintenance system that treats wastewater to a very high effluent. According to Tom Mansur project engineer with engineering firm the Benham Company, “The USFilter SBR system offers the necessary treatment flexibility, efficiency and adaptability. The process will enable the city to meet new discharge limits in a configuration that will be readily expandable in the future. The old RBC treatment process it displaces is unable to meet new limits and was increasingly expensive to maintain.”
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PEOPLE • Millipore Corp of Billerica, Massachusetts, USA, has announced that Susan Vogt, President of its BioPharmaceutical Division is leaving the company to pursue other interests. Martin Madaus, Millipore's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will lead the division until a successor is named. In other news, John Gordon has joined the company as Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Human Resources. He reports directly to Madaus. • Whatman Plc, a UK company that supplies separations technology to the life sciences industry, has appointed Timothy Haines as its Chief Executive. The appointment becomes effective from 1 September 2005. Haines has a broad range of international management experience in the life sciences industry. For the past five years he has been Chief Executive of Astex Technology, a UK-based drug discovery and development company, since joining the founders in early 2000. • Joe Loughrey has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of Cummins Inc. Loughrey has been with Cummins for 31 years during which time he has held a number of leadership positions. Cummins says that Loughrey's move to the position of President is part of a strategic reorganisation that is designed to further promote execution and growth among its businesses. • NETZSCH has appointed Randall M. Smith as Vice President of NETZSCH Fine Particle Technology, LLC, the USA division of NETZSCH-Feinmahltecnik GmbH. NETZSCH manufactures a complete line of
wet and fine dry grinding and classification, mixing and dispersing equipment used in a vast range of applications. • Now that Werner Kohlstette has joined the Executive Board of Westfalia Separator AG, Ludger Konkol has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Westfalia Separator Industry and Olaf Müller has succeeded Werner Kohlstette and is now responsible for sales, marketing and technical development, the company reports. The Executive Board of Westfalia Separator AG has also appointed Anthony vander Ley, Managing Director of Westfalia Separator Food Tec and Member ofthe Division Board of the M-Division, as the Chairman of the Board ofManaging Directors of Westfalia Separator Food Tec with effect from 1January 2005. • Achim Noack, currently Head of Bayer Technology Services Americas, is to become Managing Director of Bayer Technology Services GmbH. He succeeds Dr Wolfram Wagner, 61, who has headed the Bayer service company since its founding on 1 July 2002, as part of the restructuring of the Bayer Group. Dr. Wagner is retiring on June 30, 2005, after 32 years at Bayer. Noack studied chemical engineering at the University of Dortmund, and joined Bayer AG in 1986 as a process engineer with the former Crop Protection Business Group. He was named Head of the Corporate Engineering Department in 2000, and Chief Technology Officer of Bayer Corporation, USA, shortly thereafter.