PT Great Giant Pineapple company, the world’s third largest producer of pineapples based in Indonesia, is using GWE’s anaerobic technology to extract green energy from a biological waste stream.
31 May, 2012
Agilent Technologies Inc has developed the 280-DS Mechanical Qualification System, a new instrument for routine calibration of a dissolution apparatus.
30 May, 2012
Vokes Air has partnered with Indian industrial filtration experts Filter-On to introduce ScandMist oil mist eliminators to the expanding Indian automotive manufacturing sector.
30 May, 2012
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has developed three new Fisher Chemical Optima liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) grade reagents that modify the mobile phase to minimise background noise and enhance MS detection.
29 May, 2012
FilterSense has developed a particulate monitor for chemical spray dryers and pharmaceutical powder fluid bed dryers. Any moisture present in the drying process will not affect operation, nor will the build-up of wet powders.
29 May, 2012
Materials technology specialist Umicore has selected GE’s advanced biological metals removal process (ABMet) wastewater bioreactor technology to remove selenium and other heavy metals from wastewater discharges at Umicore’s precious metals recycling facility near Antwerp, Belgium.
28 May, 2012
Honeywell’s UOP LLC has opened a manufacturing and operations centre in Penang, Malaysia, that will produce natural gas membrane elements for the growing natural gas market.
28 May, 2012
Singapore’s Memstar Technology Ltd has been awarded a RMB60 million contract to supply its Polyvinylidene Diflouride (PVDF) hollow fibre membrane products for two wastewater treatment upgrade projects in China.
25 May, 2012
inge GmbH has signed a deal with the UK’s VWS Westgarth to supply ultrafiltration technology to treat water on an oil rig.
25 May, 2012
Screen supplier Headworks Inc is to design and fabricate five Headworks Mahr Bar Screens for the Belmont Advanced Wastewater Treatment (AWT) plant in Indianapolis, Indiana.
24 May, 2012
World demand for activated carbon is expected to increase more than 10% per year through 2016 to 1.9 million metric tons, according to World Activated Carbon, a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc.
23 May, 2012
Hydro International has launched the Hydro Brake Optimum, a flow control for surface water, foul and combined sewer systems.
23 May, 2012
Severn Trent Services has been awarded a contract to supply its TETRA LP Block filter underdrain system for the Mundaring Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in the Perth area of Australia.
22 May, 2012
WS Tyler plans to begin production of test sieves with laser etched identification in June 2012.
22 May, 2012
IFAT ENTSORGA has had its largest ever number of visitors and exhibitors.
22 May, 2012
A US$136 million contract that FLSmidth has won from a US customer to upgrade a cement production facility includes three new fabric filters.
21 May, 2012
Private equity firm Insight Equity Holdings LLC has finalised its acquisition of air filter manufacturer Flanders Corp.
21 May, 2012
AAF International is planning to close its 340 000 sq ft Hutchins plant in Texas by the end of September 2012.
21 May, 2012
Xylem’s Wedeco brand has developed a new open channel ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system that uses reduced energy.
21 May, 2012
Sartorius Stedim Biotech and biotechnology specialist c-LEcta have signed a worldwide sales and distribution agreement for c-LEcta’s proprietary Serratia marcescens nuclease for biopharmaceutical applications.
21 May, 2012
Merck Millipore has appointed Andrew Bulpin as head of the company's process solutions business unit.
18 May, 2012
Agilent Technologies Inc has expanded its Agilent LC purification range with the launch of the new 218 and SD1 purification systems.
18 May, 2012
Private equity fund Liberation Capital LLC has led a US$6.25 million investment in Desalitech Ltd, the Israeli provider of advanced water treatment solutions and technology.
17 May, 2012
Membrane manufacturer QUA has introduced its FEDI fractional electrodionization and Q-SEP hollow fibre ultrafiltration modules to the Southeast Asia water treatment market at Aquatech India.
16 May, 2012
NanoH2O Inc has launched the Qfx SW 400 R and Qfx SW 400 SR, part of its QuantumFlux line of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, which feature 99.85% stabilised salt rejection and NSF Standard 61 Certification, enabling operators to meet stringent water quality standards.
16 May, 2012
Calgon Carbon Corp chairman, president and CEO John Stanik has decided to retire from the company to spend time with his family.
16 May, 2012
Siemens’ industry automation division has been selected by Guodian Northeast Environmental Protection Industry Group Ltd to supply an IPS composting system using its new mechanically enhanced biodrying (MEB) process for the Shenyang wastewater treatment plant sludge treatment project in Shenyang, China.
15 May, 2012
Asian purchases will account for 63% of the US$4.4 billion ultrapure water products in 2012, says McIlvaine in its Ultrapure Water World Markets report.
15 May, 2012
Donaldson Co Inc is building two new140 000 sq ft filter manufacturing plants in Xuzhou, China, to serve China’s growing diesel-powered equipment and industrial markets.
14 May, 2012
Clarcor Inc has acquired Modular Engineering Pty Ltd, an Australian manufacturer of natural gas filtration products and a distributor of aftermarket elements.
14 May, 2012
Outotec is to provide filters, auxiliary equipment, spare parts and start-up services for a lithium processing pilot plant that Corporación Minera de Bolivia (COMIBOL) is building in Bolivia.
14 May, 2012
Merck Millipore, the life science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, will visit nine science parks and institutions in Europe as part of its Live Lab Tour 2012 from May.
14 May, 2012
Bruker, a manufacturer of analytical research tools, has released its new SCION Series of gas chromatographs (GC).
14 May, 2012
Ahlstrom has launched a range of air filtration products for Transportation during the 11th World Filtration Congress, which was held recently in Graz, Austria.
11 May, 2012
Nonwoven trade association INDA has opened nominations for two of its most prestigious awards: the INDA Lifetime Service Award and the INDA Lifetime Technical Achievement Award.
11 May, 2012
Veolia subsidiary Biothane has developed Memthane, a new anaerobic membrane bioreactor that delivers high-energy efficiency and quality effluents.
10 May, 2012
Dr Ing Stefan Panglisch has joined ultrafiltration specialist inge GmbH as head of the company’s research and development department in Greifenberg, Germany.
10 May, 2012
Mann+Hummel Group is adding a new quality and development centre at its plant in Marklkofen, Germany, to strengthen product development activities.
10 May, 2012
Outotec is to supply 17 capillary action disc filters for the expansion of MMX Mineração e Metálicos SA’s Serra Azul iron ore processing facility in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
10 May, 2012
GE LEAPmbr membrane bioreactor (MBR) wastewater-treatment technology will be installed at ASI Messina’s municipal plant near Messina in Sicily, Italy.
10 May, 2012
Siemens’ industry automation division has developed the Vantage M83 reverse osmosis (RO) system for the European market.
09 May, 2012
Welsh industrial filtration specialist Ultra.air Group has appointed Irish firm Hall Pyke to distribute its Ultrafilter range of process filters across Ireland and Northern Ireland.
08 May, 2012
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has formed a global energy task force whose goal is to achieve a 20% reduction in energy consumption in all major seawater desalination processes by 2015.
07 May, 2012
Water analysis specialist Hach Lange has developed a wastewater sampling system, which allows water companies to continuously monitor sewage at the plant inlet.
03 May, 2012
The Swedish aeration company Sorubin has completed a three month test of a new version of its Microluft aerator at UMEVA’s wastewater treatment plant in Gravmark, northern Sweden with promising results.
02 May, 2012
The International Desalination Association (IDA) says that applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Channabasappa Memorial Scholarship.
02 May, 2012
The market for filtration media will exceed US$17 billion in 2012, says market report company McIlvaine in its Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control World Markets report.
02 May, 2012
Californian reverse osmosis (RO) membrane manufacturer NanoH2O Inc has secured US$40 million in equity funding and US$20.5 million in credit facilities.
01 May, 2012
Pentair X-Flow’s HFS 60 Silica ultrafiltration (UF) membrane modules will be used at two power production facilities in India for the removal of colloidal silica from surface water.
01 May, 2012
IDEX Corp has acquired ERC, a Japanese manufacturer of gas liquid separations and detection solutions for the life science, analytical instrumentation and clinical chemistry markets.
01 May, 2012
Pall Corp has entered into an agreement to sell its blood collection, filtration and processing systems and equipment for transfusion medicine to Haemonetics Corp for approximately US$550 million.
01 May, 2012
Meissner has introduced CM and CK capsule filters designed for use with single-use systems.
01 May, 2012
Sartorius Stedim Biotech has developed Sartocheck 4 plus, an integrity test system which features a scanner which enables important information to be read into the test unit.
01 May, 2012