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UK filtration firm wins engineering award
Filtration Industry Analyst
Walker Filtration has received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for the third time in its history, the company says. The criteria for winning the award, given by Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her 80th birthday, was based on Walker Filtration’s large growth in export markets, with 85% of all products now shipped abroad, the company says. “The Queen’s Award is one of the highest accolades that can be bestowed and we are absolutely delighted to receive it for the third time,” said Brian Walker, CEO of Walker Filtration. “We feel that the award recognises our continuing ambition to become a world leader in the filtration industry and the real strides that we have made in export levels over recent years. This award proves our belief that a manufacturing company in the North East [of the UK] can compete successfully in an international market place.”
Europe, the Middle East and Africa, having previously operated in the SE Asian market, setting up and running a regional office in Singapore. Stefan Davis has been appointed operations director. Stefan joined Rotork in 1991 in the systems and service division of Exeeco, moving into Exeeco’s fluid power division after two years and becoming engineering and production manager in 1995. Since 2000 he has been general manager at the main Rotork Fluid System factory in Lucca, Italy. Howard Mutters has been appointed UK and Ireland general manager. Howard joined Rotork Controls in 1988 and worked in UK and international sales, becoming middle east area manager, based in Bahrain, in 1998. Finally, Vittorio Stefani has been promoted to the position of general manager sales at the main Fluid System manufacturing plant in Lucca. This new position is designed to strengthen sales, after sales and contracting activities at Lucca, where Vittorio has been Italian sales manager since 2003. (For more appointment stories, see page 6.)
ROTORK ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT APPOINTMENTS
COLLABORATION FORMED TO SIMULATE DIESEL FILTERS
Rotork Fluid Systems has announced a number of senior management appointments. Firstly, Nigel Willis has been apponted as Rotork’s new sales and marketing director, following his promotion from international sales manager. Nigel has fifteen years’ experience of the valve actuator business, initially joining Rotork as fluid system regional sales manager for the Middle East. Before joining Rotork in 2003 Alex worked as a general manager for
Fluent Inc, a developer of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and services, and J Eberspacher GmbH, a German automotive parts manufacturer, have created a joint collaboration to develop a diesel particulate filter simulation tool. This new tool will allow companies to computationally design and optimise particulate filters in passenger car and truck applications with regard to soot loading and regeneration behaviour for a filter’s projected full lifecycle, before
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it is even manufactured, the companies says. Fluent’s German office, based in Darmstadt, and Eberspacher have created the combined 3D/1D modelling tool to calculate diesel filter soot distribution, pressure, and regeneration under any operating condition. “Our collaboration with Eberspacher has produced a unique design methodology that I believe will transform the design process for complex automotive diesel filters,” claims Werner Seibert, global automotive segment manager for Fluent Inc. “The net effect will be a new tool to improve filter design and thereby reduce particulate emissions at the early design stage which should lead to an improved environment for everyone.”
PALL TO INTRODUCE AIR MONITORING GLOBALY Pall Corporation plans to bring its Ascotec™ environmental air monitoring systems to the global market. The Pall Ascotec air monitoring systems function by pulling contamination downward into the system using a vacuum, where microorganisms are collected onto an impaction plate for observation. An internal gas filter scrubs air before it leaves the system to reduce the possible introduction of contamination back into the controlled environment. “The introduction of the Pall Ascotec systems will have a major impact on the speed and reliability of environmental air monitoring in the US market, which constitutes 40% of all clean room space worldwide,” claims Chris Mach, marketing manager biotechnology at Pall Life Sciences. “Advanced air monitoring technologies help biotechnology
and pharmaceutical companies gain better quality control of manufacturing processes and provide greater assurances of product safety.”
SUCCESS FOR EFP’S NEW NANO FILTER MATERIAL According to Emergency Filtration Products (EFP), its custom-engineered nano material has demonstrated a promising anti-microbial performance against a host of pathogens. The testing performed to date demonstrated high efficacy against Aspergilus Niger spores, Staphylococcus aureous and the Herpes virus. The material will be tested against a strain of the avian flu H9 N2 at a medical testing laboratory based on the East Coast of the USA later this month, the company says. “The results of tests undertaken at Nelson Laboratories, while still in the early stages, have been quite impressive against black spore mould, staph and herpes,” said Douglas K Beplate, president and CEO of EFP.
LIQUID MACRO FILTRATION TO REACH US$5 BILLION The market for filters used for the separation of larger particles from liquids will grow from US$4.4 billion in 2006 to US$5.1 billion in 2009, says McIlvaine’s Liquid Filtration World Markets online report. There are several areas of high growth within this market place, the report claims, with the use of belt filters for gypsum dewatering at power plants employing scrubbers growing at double-digit rates. Both the US and China are said to be investing heavily in these scrubbing systems and
Walker Filtration has received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for the third time in its history, the company says. The criteria for winning the award, given by Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her 80th birthday, was based on Walker Filtration’s large growth in export markets, with 85% of all products now shipped abroad, the company says. “The Queen’s Award is one of the highest accolades that can be bestowed and we are absolutely delighted to receive it for the third time,” said Brian Walker, CEO of Walker Filtration. “We feel that the award recognises our continuing ambition to become a world leader in the filtration industry and the real strides that we have made in export levels over recent years. This award proves our belief that a manufacturing company in the North East [of the UK] can compete successfully in an international market place.”
Europe, the Middle East and Africa, having previously operated in the SE Asian market, setting up and running a regional office in Singapore. Stefan Davis has been appointed operations director. Stefan joined Rotork in 1991 in the systems and service division of Exeeco, moving into Exeeco’s fluid power division after two years and becoming engineering and production manager in 1995. Since 2000 he has been general manager at the main Rotork Fluid System factory in Lucca, Italy. Howard Mutters has been appointed UK and Ireland general manager. Howard joined Rotork Controls in 1988 and worked in UK and international sales, becoming middle east area manager, based in Bahrain, in 1998. Finally, Vittorio Stefani has been promoted to the position of general manager sales at the main Fluid System manufacturing plant in Lucca. This new position is designed to strengthen sales, after sales and contracting activities at Lucca, where Vittorio has been Italian sales manager since 2003. (For more appointment stories, see page 6.)
ROTORK ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT APPOINTMENTS
COLLABORATION FORMED TO SIMULATE DIESEL FILTERS
Rotork Fluid Systems has announced a number of senior management appointments. Firstly, Nigel Willis has been apponted as Rotork’s new sales and marketing director, following his promotion from international sales manager. Nigel has fifteen years’ experience of the valve actuator business, initially joining Rotork as fluid system regional sales manager for the Middle East. Before joining Rotork in 2003 Alex worked as a general manager for
Fluent Inc, a developer of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and services, and J Eberspacher GmbH, a German automotive parts manufacturer, have created a joint collaboration to develop a diesel particulate filter simulation tool. This new tool will allow companies to computationally design and optimise particulate filters in passenger car and truck applications with regard to soot loading and regeneration behaviour for a filter’s projected full lifecycle, before
UK FILTRATION FIRM WINS ENGINEERING AWARD
NEWS
May 2006
2
it is even manufactured, the companies says. Fluent’s German office, based in Darmstadt, and Eberspacher have created the combined 3D/1D modelling tool to calculate diesel filter soot distribution, pressure, and regeneration under any operating condition. “Our collaboration with Eberspacher has produced a unique design methodology that I believe will transform the design process for complex automotive diesel filters,” claims Werner Seibert, global automotive segment manager for Fluent Inc. “The net effect will be a new tool to improve filter design and thereby reduce particulate emissions at the early design stage which should lead to an improved environment for everyone.”
PALL TO INTRODUCE AIR MONITORING GLOBALY Pall Corporation plans to bring its Ascotec™ environmental air monitoring systems to the global market. The Pall Ascotec air monitoring systems function by pulling contamination downward into the system using a vacuum, where microorganisms are collected onto an impaction plate for observation. An internal gas filter scrubs air before it leaves the system to reduce the possible introduction of contamination back into the controlled environment. “The introduction of the Pall Ascotec systems will have a major impact on the speed and reliability of environmental air monitoring in the US market, which constitutes 40% of all clean room space worldwide,” claims Chris Mach, marketing manager biotechnology at Pall Life Sciences. “Advanced air monitoring technologies help biotechnology
and pharmaceutical companies gain better quality control of manufacturing processes and provide greater assurances of product safety.”
SUCCESS FOR EFP’S NEW NANO FILTER MATERIAL According to Emergency Filtration Products (EFP), its custom-engineered nano material has demonstrated a promising anti-microbial performance against a host of pathogens. The testing performed to date demonstrated high efficacy against Aspergilus Niger spores, Staphylococcus aureous and the Herpes virus. The material will be tested against a strain of the avian flu H9 N2 at a medical testing laboratory based on the East Coast of the USA later this month, the company says. “The results of tests undertaken at Nelson Laboratories, while still in the early stages, have been quite impressive against black spore mould, staph and herpes,” said Douglas K Beplate, president and CEO of EFP.
LIQUID MACRO FILTRATION TO REACH US$5 BILLION The market for filters used for the separation of larger particles from liquids will grow from US$4.4 billion in 2006 to US$5.1 billion in 2009, says McIlvaine’s Liquid Filtration World Markets online report. There are several areas of high growth within this market place, the report claims, with the use of belt filters for gypsum dewatering at power plants employing scrubbers growing at double-digit rates. Both the US and China are said to be investing heavily in these scrubbing systems and