Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from December 2004

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from December 2004

FILTRATION EQUIPMENT: Flexible Pharma System Eases Feasibility Tests.
December 1, 2004... GEA Filtration introduced its Model M Pharma plant at the 2004 AAPS (American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists) Annual Meeting and Exposition held November 7-11 in Baltimore, MD. The lab-scale cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice)...

ULTRAFILTRATION: All-Purpose HFM-513 Clears the Juice.
December 1, 2004... Koch Membrane Systems (KMS) has expanded its SUPER-COR and SUPER-G lines by incorporating its new all-purpose HFM-513 membrane for juice clarification into existing products. The PVDF membrane exhibits 15% to 30% higher flux than the...

MICROFILTRATION: SHC Filter Enables High Throughput Bioprocessing.
December 1, 2004... Millipore has introduced a suite of Millipore Express SHC (Sterilizing-grade High Capacity) polyethersulfone (PES) membrane filters for efficient, economical processing of a variety of low- to high-fouling bioprocess fluids, including cell...

REVERSE OSMOSIS: GE Launches Home Water System.
December 1, 2004... GE Water & Process Technologies has introduced Merlin, a tankless, high capacity RO unit that cuts 95% of contaminants, including off-tastes and odors, found in traditional global water supplies. Ninety-five percent contaminant removal exceeds...

GAS SEPARATION: Assembly Interchangeable for Various Processes.
December 1, 2004... Air Liquide inventors have devised an improved configuration for hollow fiber membrane cartridges used in gas separations. The newly patented apparatus is designed so that the cartridge can be used interchangeably in a number of different gas...

BIOMEDICAL & BIOMEMBRANE: PrISMedical Patents Medical Water Purifier.
December 1, 2004... PrISMedical Corp. researchers have patented a portable, single use membrane device for purifying a fluid, such as potable water, to quality levels suitable for medical applications. The purifier pack houses depth filtration, activated carbon,...

Leukotrap Removes vCJD Prions.
December 1, 2004... Recent research results confirm that Palls Leukotrap Affinity Prion Reduction Filter can remove infectious variant Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease (vCJD) prions from red blood cell (RBC) concentrates, the most commonly transfused blood component....

MARKETS: Gore-Tex Breaks into Designer Market.
December 1, 2004... Well known as a high performance textile for outdoor sportswear and protective garments, Gore-Tex has transitioned successfully into designer apparel. The ePTFE membrane and laminates made with Gore-Tex now are featured in high fashion items...

INDUSTRY NEWS: GE Arranges to Buy Ionics.
December 1, 2004... GE Infrastructure, a unit of General Electric Co. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ionics, Inc. in an all cash merger for $44 per share, which values the transaction at $1.1 billion plus the assumption of existing debt. Ionics, a...

Whatman Purchases Schleicher & Schuell.
December 1, 2004... Whatman PLC has concluded the acquisition of privately held German separations company Schleicher & Schuell (S&S) following shareholder approval on November 30. The companies have had a close working relationship for some time. Under the...

Grants Support Hydrogen Fuel Initiative.
December 1, 2004... The DOE has awarded $75 million in grants to fund research supporting the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative. Among the selected projects, chosen through a merit-review are several incorporating membrane technology. * Media and Process Technology...

Genome Institute Funds Nanopore Projects.
December 1, 2004... The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is awarding more than $38 million in grants to fund the development of technologies to cut the cost of DNA sequencing. Although DNA...

FilmTec Releases ROSA 6.0.
December 1, 2004... FilmTec Corp. has released version 6.0 of its ROSA (Reverse Osmosis System Analysis) design software, which permits RO and NF system designers to improve and maintain their operations more effectively and efficiently. Users may access the...

Business News.
December 1, 2004... Acquisition Helps Pall Establish Proteomics Centers. Pall Corp. (East Hills, NY) will acquire the BioSepra Process Division from Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. for about $32 million in a transaction expected to close within 45 days. The purchase of...

New Products.
December 1, 2004... Meissner Offers Mycoplasma Removal. Meissner Filtrations (Camarillo, CA) new STyLUX SC0.1 filter provides validated, absolute removal of mycoplasma from serum, tissue culture media and biologicals. The filters sterilizing-grade 0.1m asymmetric...

Recent Patents.
December 1, 2004... Fibers Directly Extruded into Cooling Bath. Mykrolis (Billerica, MA) has patented high flux porous hollow fiber membranes fabricated from perfluorinated thermoplastic polymers. The membranes are produced by extruding a heated solution of the...

Financial Results.
December 1, 2004... Millipore Revenues Up Despite Weakness Overseas. Millipore Corp. (Billerica, MA) reported third quarter revenues of $211 million, up 5% from the same period last year. For the first nine months of 2004, revenues were up 13%. In constant...

Grants and Funding.
December 1, 2004... NxStage Raises $20 Million in Fifth Round Funding. NxStage Medical, Inc., (Lawrence, MA), developers of the renal therapy product NxStage System One, has raised $20 million in its fifth round of venture equity. System One delivers hemodialysis,...

People.
December 1, 2004... Millipore Names New CEO. Millipore Corp. (Billerica, MA) has named Martin Madaus, Ph.D., to the position of President and CEO, effective no later than February 1, 2005. Madaus comes to Millipore from Roche Diagnostics Corp. where he led a $1.9...

COMMENTARY: Does Food Industry Hear Water Wake Up Call?
December 1, 2004... In a blue paper launched during World Water Week, a Stockholm event attended by more than 50 international organizations and 1,200 water experts from 100 countries, scientists warn that the food industry must do more to use less water while...

CALENDAR.
December 1, 2004... February 20-23, Advances in Materials for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Systems 2005, Alisomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA. Contact: James McGrath, University Distinguished Professor, Materials Research Institute and Department of...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Coated Glass Slides for Whole Genome Expression Analysis.
December 1, 2004... By Todd E. Arnold, Ph.D., CUNO, Inc., 400 Research Parkway, Meriden, CT 06450: Tel: 203/237-5541 Whole genome analysis using microarray technologies has become a powerful technique for measuring differences in the expression patterns of...

Coated Slide Platform.
December 1, 2004... Microporous nylon membrane possesses a high surface area and avidity for binding nucleic acid due to its intrinsic positive charge. This beneficial feature, and the porous structure of the nylon membrane shown in Figure 1, allows for spotted...

HED. SEM of Microporous Nylon.
December 1, 2004... The attachment of the pigmented membrane on glass utilizes a proprietary (Patents Pending) chemistry that covalently links the membrane to a glass support. Specifically, an anchor, an aminosilane moiety, is attached to the glass support. Then,...

Expression Array System.
December 1, 2004... The Human Genome Survey Microarray contains a set of probes (60- mers) covalently bound at their 3 ends to the pigmented nylon membrane. A length of 60-mers offers the best combination of sensitivity and specificity when compared to microarrays...

Summary.
December 1, 2004... CUNOs pigmented nylon membrane-coated glass slides allow for use of both chemiluminescent and fluorescent labeling and, in combination with Applied Biosystems highly sensitive labeling chemistries, gene annotation software, and instrumentation,...