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Guide and Directory 2002
elcome to our annual World Buyers' Guide and Directory for 2002, where you will find product and contact information of both manufacturers and suppliers that are active in the field of filtration and separation worldwide. As in the past the Guide is divided into seven Product Categories (Filter Media, Liquid Filters & Separators, Membrane Filters, Dry Filter & Separators, Filter Applications, Testing & Monitoring and Other Products & services), each one is colour coded to make it easier to locate a specific section. The final part of the Buyers' Guide comprises a complete listing of companies' addresses, telephone & fax numbers, and e-mail & website addresses, if supplied. This is the second year that the Buyers' Guide has been published as a dedicated issue, and I hope you agree that it makes it a useful tool all year round. This year, much of the data were collected on-line through our new electronic registration form, enabling us to bring to you the
most up-to-date company information available. We are keen that filtration and separation companies continue to up-date their i n f o r m a t i o n t h r o u g h o u t 2002, so that the 2003 Buyers' Guide is even m o r e comprehensive. The on-line registration f o r m will remain accessible via our website (www.filtsep.com) by simply
clicking on the 'Buyers' Guide' button on our h o m e page, If you are a filtration and separation manufacturer or supplier and are n o t currently in o u r Buyers' Guide, but w o u l d like to be, please contact m e at
[email protected]. Also, contact m e at the same e mail address if your company's i n f o r m a t i o n in this Buyers' Guide is incorrect.
Heather Johnstone Editor Established back in 1896, Karl Rabofsky GmbH is now one of the world's leading manufacturers of state-of-the art filter media pleating machines. Over the years the company has seen great advances in pleating machine technology. Nowadays, machines need to be intelligent,flexible,fast, and most importantly able to be integrated into automated production lines. Rabofsky's recent objective has been the development of a new generation of modular pleating machines and peripherals - 'Heating Technology 2000', which can be adapted to satisfy a wide variety of pleating requirements for a range of applications. Contact: Karl Rabofsky GmbH, Motzener StraJSe I OA, D-12277 Berlin, Germany. Tel.: +49 30 713 026 O; Fax: +49 30 713 026 13; E-mail: rabofsky @rabofsky. de; Website: ww.: rabofsky, de
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