liquid filtration

Solvex cartridge filters from Millipore Corp are now available. These filters have been developed to provide customers with validated, robust and cost-efficient sterile filtration for solvent-based active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).

Millipore says the key characteristics to the Solvex filter cartridges are high-capacity, low extractables, and resistance to thermal and hydraulic stress. The filters, which are economic as they can be reused multiple times, are available in 10 inch, 20 inch, and 30 inch sizes and can be steamed in place up to 135°C.

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Tetra Pak and fluXXion have signed an exclusive global partnership agreement for the joint-development of microsieve-based microfiltration technology for dairy products such as extended-shelf-life (ESL) milk and cheese products.

Using Tetra Pak's processing systems and fluXXion's microfiltration technology, the two companies will work together to develop high-capacity microfiltration systems, which aim to increase processing capacity and maintain a high level of product quality.

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In a panel at the World Water Congress in Vienna, Water For People, a non-profit international development organisation and ITT held a discussion on water sanitation issues. The charity will work closely with the company on 'ITT Watermark', ITT's program which targets the biggest water issues facing schools and schoolchildren in developing countries.

Together the companies plan to install 15 arsenic filters at schools in West Bengal, India, and are also involved with other local projects there. These efforts are part of ITT Watermark's larger program – an initial three-year, US$3 million commitment to help provide safe water, sanitation and hygiene education to 300 schools in the developing world.

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Sydney Water Corporation has awarded Veolia Water a contract for the first private scheme for recycled water to a network of industrial users in Australia. The contract, which forms part of the New South Wales Government's initiative, plans to reduce demand on Rosehill and Camellia's drinking water supplies, in western Sydney.

Estimated to create a cumulated turnover of €122 million, the contract is a build, own and operate project for the Rosehill and Camellia Recycled Water Plant.
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3M has completed its acquisition of Ligacon AG, a Switzerland-based manufacturer and supplier of filtration systems and filter elements for the pharmaceutical, biotech and general industrial markets.

As part of 3M CUNO Filtration, Ligacon will gain access to 3M technologies and developments.
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You can count on Kimberly-Clark* Intrepid* Air Filtration Media to provide excellent performance for your filters:

Working with chemicals – be they fine or coarse, in small or bulk amounts – demands precision and accuracy of scale in order to achieve the best efficiencies for the process. In this article, Dan Norrgran discusses the use of magnetic filters when working with chemicals, especially in the production of ceramic and metallurgical components.

Introduction
The advancements in magnetic separation technology have resulted in new types of magnetic separators specifically designed for treating fine materials. These new separators are termed “magnetic filters” and are effective in treating fine materialsin either a wet or dry process stream. As a result new opportunities for magnetic separation have evolved in the production of

Ametek Foundry Products and Comanche Technologies, a metal filtration casting company, have worked together to develop Cerra-Flex®, a new line of refractory cloth filters.

Cerra-Flex® is a refractory-coated silica mesh cloth developed specifically for increased thermal properties and rigidity. It can be used in metal casting applications where metal pour temperatures approach the maximum allowed for silica mesh fabric, such as steel casting or when pouring large amounts of ferrous metals.
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Metso Minerals will supply minerals processing equipment to China Metallurgical Group Corp (MCC) for Sino Iron, one of the largest mining projects in Western Australia. The order is worth approximately €53 million.

Metso will deliver 28 VPA pressure filters with complete automatic control systems and compressed air systems and 52 slurry pumps. According to Metso, the order is the largest VPA pressure filter order received by the company. The plant is estimated to be the largest mineral concentrate filtration facility in the world.

The delivery is scheduled for the first quarter of 2010.
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Sartorius Stedim Biotech has developed Sartoflow® Alpha plus, a modular benchtop cross flow filtration system.

The Sarto flow Alpha plus provides semi-automatic micro, ultra and diafiltration, and is especially suited for process development,clinical testing and smaller production processes. The company says, due to a choice of standardised options, the system can adapt to the changing production demands of downstream processing.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired AquaSensors, LLC. AquaSensors will be integrated into Thermo Fisher's Water Analysis Instruments business of the Environmental Instruments Division.

AquaSensors will complement Thermo Fisher's existing capabilities in water markets for laboratory electrodes and online analysers.
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Pentair Inc and GE Water & Process Technologies, have announced a joint venture to combine their respective global water softener and residential water filtration businesses.

Millipore Corp has launched the third in the Mobius family of disposable mixing systems.

The Mobius system is designed for mixing pharmaceutical ingredients from intermediate to final drug products and for the preparation of process solutions, such as buffers and media.

The Mobius MIX 500 features a configurable 500-litre container. The instant-on, levitating magnetically-driven impeller significantly minimises particle generation and enables risk-free media and buffer preparation. Millipore says the MIX 500 mixer can be easily and economically configured with a wide array of Mobius process containers, Lynx® connectors, Opticap® filters, connectors and tubing for a disposable solution.
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ItN Nanovation AG has signed a major contract to deliver 12 filtration units to 20 mobile wastewater treatment plants in Dubai. The contract is worth approximately €5 million.

The treatment plants are designed to filter wastewater in construction worker camps located in the dry, fast-growing region of Dubai. The plants will convert wastewater to recyclable water for industrial/domestic use – free of suspended substances, germs and bacteria – and therefore look to alleviate the water shortage in the region.

The entire delivery of the plants is expected to be completed by July 2009.
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Keystone Filter Division of Met-Pro Corporation has introduced a line of 222 Giant® industrial filter housings and cartridges that it says offer sub-micronic filtration in a low cost, high surface area configuration, with double 222 'O' ring seal that ensure safety.

The 222 Giant® line of housings and cartridges are available in all-polypropylene construction for cleanliness and broad chemical resistance. Housings are available in an all-polypropylene construction or with clear SAN bowls in both 10 inch and 20 inch sizes.