Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from February 2000

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from February 2000

USFilter and DMP Announce Alliance.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... USFilter (73-710 Fred Waring Dr., Palm Desert, CA 92260; Tel: 619/340-0098) and DMP Corp. (4119 Kennywood Blvd., West Mifflin, PA 15122-2233; Tel: 412/461-1188) have formed a strategic alliance to exchange industrial wastewater treatment...

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2000... Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (7201 Hamilton Blvd., Allentown, PA 18195; Tel: 610/481-4911, Fax: 610/481-6642) reports fiscal first-quarter profit rose a better-than-expected 2.8% on demand from Asia and electronics makers. The company says...

Parker Hannifin Corp.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2000... Parker Hannifin Corp. (17325 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44112-1290; Tel: 216/531-3000, Fax: 216/486-6057) says its fiscal second-quarter net income rose 18%, but earnings per share came in a penny shy of analysts' expectations. Parker Hannifin...

A group led by New York money manager Mario Gabelli has raised its stakes in Cuno, Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... A group led by New York money manager Mario Gabelli has raised its stakes in Cuno, Inc. (400 Research Pkwy., Meriden, CT 06450; Tel: 203/237-5541, Fax: 203/238-8962). The group's position in Cuno rose to 7.44% from 6.43%.

Roberto E. Perez.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Roberto E. Perez has joined Pall Corp. (2200 Northern Blvd., East Hills, NY 11548-1289; Tel: 516/484-5400, Fax: 516/484-6164) as president of the company's medical products manufacturing group and a vice president of Pall Corp. Prior to...

Brian McDonough.
February 1, 2000... Additionally, Brian McDonough has joined Pall as president of the company's North American blood products business. McDonough joins Pall after more than 25 years with the American Red Cross (ARC), where he most recently served as chief...

ESCO Electronics Corp.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... ESCO Electronics Corp. (8888 Ladue Rd., No. 200, St. Louis, MO 63124-2090; Tel: 314/213-7200, Fax: 314/213-7250) reports sales for the first quarter were $65.9 million, an 18% increase during prior-year "adjusted" sales of $55.7 million. First...

Air Liquide SA.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Air Liquide SA (75, Quai D-Orsay 75321, Paris Cedex 07, France) says fourth-quarter sales rose 18%, helped by contracts and the euro's decline against the dollar. Sales climbed to 1.877 billion euros ($1.84 billion) in the fourth quarter from...

Parker Hannifin Corp.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Parker Hannifin Corp. (17325 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44112-1290; Tel: 216/531-3000, Fax: 216/486-6057) says that its board elected Donald Washkewicz as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. In this role, Washkewicz...

DuPont Co.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... DuPont Co. (1007 Market St., Wilmington, DE 19898; Tel: 302/774-1000, Fax: 302/774-7321) says fourth-quarter profit fell 15% as raw materials costs rose. DuPont reports fourth quarter profit from operations fell to $583 million from $682...

Osmonics, Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Osmonics, Inc. (5951 Clearwater Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55343-8995; Tel: 612/933-2277, Fax: 612/933-0141) says it expects to report a 1999 fourth quarter operating loss of about 5 cents per share before plant restructuring charges totaling about 4...

Millipore Corp.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Millipore Corp. (80 Ashby Rd., Bedford, MA 01730; Tel: 617/275-9200, Fax: 617/275-5550) says that its fourth quarter revenues were $215 million, up 20% from the same period last year. C. William Zadel, Millipore's chair, says the company saw...

Minntech Corp.
February 1, 2000... Minntech Corp. (14605 28th Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN 55447; Tel: 612/553- 3300, Fax: 612/553-3387) says revenues in the third quarter of fiscal 2000 were $18.7 million, compared to $19.7 million in the same quarter last fiscal year. Revenues...

CytoTherapeutics, Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... CytoTherapeutics, Inc. (Two Richmond Square, Providence, RI 02906; Tel: 401/272-3310, Fax; 401/272-3485) says that effective February 1, 2000, life sciences veteran George W. Dunbar, Jr., will become acting president and CEO of the company,...

Dow Chemical Co.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Dow Chemical Co. (100 Larkin Center, Midland, MI 48641-1206; Tel: 517/832- 1556, Fax: 517/832-1466) says its fourth-quarter earnings surged a better-than- expected 35% as rising sales offset the impact of more costly raw materials. Dow is...

Pall Corp.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Pall Corp. (2200 Northern Blvd., East Hills, NY 11548-1289; Tel: 516/484- 5400, Fax: 516/484-6164) says it plans to repurchase as much as $200 million of its common stock to boost its share value. The shares will be purchased in the open...

Osmonics.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Osmonics (5951 Clearwater Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55343-8995; Tel: 612/933- 2277, Fax; 612/933-0141) has announced plans to close their Phoenix plant by the end of the third quarter 2000, in a continuing effort to rationalize product lines and to...

GAS SEPARATIONS: Predicting MGS Transport Parameters.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2000... Membrane gas separation (MGS) is one of the most rapidly developing branches of membrane science and technology. During a presentation last December at the 17th Annual Membrane Technology/Separation Planning Conference, Yuri Yampolskii...

ULTRAFILTRATION : Navy Floats Aerated System.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Zenon Environmental Systems (845 Harrington Ct., Burlington, Ontario L7N 3P3 Canada; Tel: 905/639-6320, Fax; 905/639-1812) is testing its aerated non-oily wastewater membrane treatment system (AMTS) for treat shipboard graywater and...

INORGANIC: Metals Allow Carrier Recovery.
February 1, 2000... A process for separating a carrier from a mixture of the carrier and paint solids using a metal or inorganic membrane (U.S. Patent 6,019,902) has been developed by Durr Environmental, Inc. (31285 Durr Dr., Wixom, MI 48393; Tel: 248/668-5200)....

MEMBRANE DEVELOPMENT : ESR Diagnoses Radiation Grafting.
February 1, 2000... According to Gerold Hubner and Emil Roduner of the Institut fur Physikalische Chemie (Universitat Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany), along with Gunther Scherer (Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI,...

CALENDAR.
February 1, 2000... March 26-30, The 219th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Contact: ACS; Tel: 202/872-6059, Email: v_beatty@acs.org . March 27-29, Membrane Technology in Water and Wastewater Treatment, Lancaster University. Contact: Royal Society of...

ADVANCED FILTRATION: Membranes Allow Dialysis Adaptability.
February 1, 2000... HEMOTherapies' (11975 El Camino Real, Suite 104, San Diego, CA 92130; Tel: 877/436-6843, Fax: 858/350-4513) membrane-based liver dialysis unit is the first FDA-approved liver assist technology for the treatment of liver disease or liver...

Silver Salts Assist Petrochemical Process.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2000... Researchers at Membrane Technology and Research (MTR, 1360 Willow Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025; Tel: 650/328-2228) are developing membranes to expand the capabilities of the company's VaporSep gas separation technology to include extraction of...

Structure Sterilizes Tissue Quickly.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Scientists at Millipore Corp. (Analytical Products Div., 17 Cherry Hill Dr., Danvers, MA 01923; Tel: 978/762-5246, Fax: 978/762-5386) have developed polyethersulfone microporous membranes for sterilizing heat-sensitive tissue culture media and...

BIOMEDICAL: Cellulose Spinning Stable, Ageless.
February 1, 2000... Akzo Nobel Systems (434 W Meats Ave, Orange, CA 92865-2635; Tel: 714/283-7500) has developed a method for producing cellulosic dialysis membranes in the form of flat, tubular, or hollow fiber membranes by spinning a solution of cellulose...

Bioreactors Show Differing Results.
February 1, 2000... A comparison of the two major types of membrane bioreactors shows that ion- exchange membrane bioreactors have a good potential as a biological treatment technology, but that extractive membrane bioreactors still have major problems to be...

REVERSE OSMOSIS: Performance Changes with Polyamide Structure.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Scientists at Chung-Ang University, Seoul National University, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed thin film composite membranes using the interfacial polymerization with various acyl chloride solutions and amine...

Dead Volume Valid Estimation Adjustment.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Researchers with the Universite de Rennes I (35014 Rennes Cedex, France) have undertaken a study that deals with the estimation of rejection coefficient for small non-charged molecules in an aqueous solution, with reverse osmosis and...

MICROFILTRATION : Yugoslavians Find a Whey.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The adsorption of proteins to membrane surfaces can lead to the reduction of a permeate flux and represents a serious impediment to efficient membrane filtration operations. The factors influencing protein adsorption, permeate flux, and...

Gas Sparging Boosts Flux.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Research by Universidad de La Laguna (38200 La Laguna, Spain) and Universite Montpellier (34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France) scientists shows that gas-liquid two-phase flow enhances flux to reduce tubular mineral membrane fouling by injecting...

INDUSTRY NEWS: HemaSure Initiates Major Expansion Plan.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... HemaSure, Inc. (140 Locke Dr., Marlborough, MA 01752; Tel: 508/490-9500) has begun a major capacity expansion plan to meet higher-than-anticipated demand for leukoreduction filtration products from the company's customers. HemaSure expects to...

Linde Postpones Messer Decision.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Linde AG (Postfach 40 20, 65030 Wiesbaden, Germany) says it will decide on a purchase of Hoechst AG's (which operates under the name Aventis S.A. since its merger with Rhone-Poulenc at BP 67917, 67917 Strasbourg Cedex 9) controlling stake in...

Praxair Deals with Brazilian Resistance.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... U.S. industrial gases company Praxair, Inc. (39 Old Ridgebury Rd., Danbury, CT 06810-5113; Tel: 203/837-2000) has encountered resistance from minority shareholders in its plan to take more than 100% and de-list its Brazilian unit White...

Air Liquide to Complete BOC Buy.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Air Liquide (75, Quai D-Orsay 75321, Paris Cedex 07, France) says it hopes to complete its acquisition of British industrial gas company BOC Group, Plc (Chertsey Rd., Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6HJ, U.K.) by the end of March. Air Liquide chair...

Pall Purchases Blood Systems Plant.(Instrumentation Laboratory)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Pall Corp. (2200 Northern Blvd., East Hills, NY 11548-1289; Tel: 516/484-5400, Fax: 516/484-6164) has signed definitive agreements for the acquisition of certain assets of Instrumentation Laboratory SpA (Ascoli, Italy), a publicly traded...

Millipore Receives Consent Judgment.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Millipore Corp. (80 Ashby Rd., Bedford, MA 01730; Tel: 617/275-9200, Fax: 617/275-5550) says that the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has issued a consent judgment against Barnstead/Thermolyne Corp. (2555 Kerper Blvd.,...