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2Filtration Industry Analyst May 2013

Filtration Company BASF divests Industrial Water Management to Degrémont

BASF is selling its Industrial Water Management France

SAS business to water treatment specialist Degrémont, a subsidiary of Suez Environnement.

Degrémont will continue operations at Industrial Water Management’s French production sites in Lyon and La Courneuve.

The sale is expected to take place during the third quarter of 2013.

BASF’s water solutions business will now concentrate on its range of water treatment chemicals and filtration technologies for the industrial and municipal waste water treatment sector. The company recently announced plans to divest its service-oriented industrial water management business to a strategic partner and to combine its water solutions, oilfield and mining solutions businesses into a new global business unit (see Filtration Industry Analyst, April 2013).

For further information, visit www.watersolutions.basf.com

PoroGen moves into new Woburn plant

Porous membrane device manufacturer PoroGen Corp has

recently moved into a new 30 000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA.

PoroGen will use a US$1 million Emerging Technology Fund loan from MassDevelopment to finance manufacturing equipment, leaseholds and working capital for the new manufacturing facility. PoroGen expects to hire additional engineers and manufacturing technicians to support its expansion.

“The MassDevelopment loan will enable us to double the manufacturing capacity and meet the growing demand for energy efficient industrial purification equipment,” said PoroGen president Ben Bikson.

PoroGen researches, develops and manufactures its products at two sites in Woburn.

Founded to commercialize resistant membranes for filtration, gas separation, and gas liquid transfer, PoroGen’s fastest growing market segment is natural gas. PoroGen sells its products to original

equipment manufacturers serving the clean energy, electronics, chemical processing and biotechnology industries.

For further information, visit www.porogen.com and

www.massdevelopment.com

H2O Innovation terminates Indian JV

Canada’s H2O Innovation Inc has decided to withdraw from its

joint venture in India.H2O Innovation India Ltd was set up

three years ago in a joint venture with India’s Chembond Chemicals Ltd to produce and sell water treatment systems for the Indian industrial and commercial market.

H2O Innovation has taken the decision to pull out of the joint venture because the sales objectives have not been met. The Canadian water treatment solutions company says that H2O Innovation India required a lot of attention and resources with little impact on overall revenues and earnings.

H2O Innovation will sell its 49% stake in H2O Innovation India to Visan Holdings and Financial Services Pvt Ltd.

For further information, visit www.h2oinnovation.com,

www.h2oinnovation.co.in and www.chembondindia.com

Calgon Carbon opens reactivation facility in Arizona

Calgon Carbon Corp has officially opened a state-of-the-art

activated carbon custom reactivation facility in Gila Bend, Arizona.

The new Calgon Carbon plant will reactivate carbon used by water treatment facilities to purify drinking water distributed to surrounding communities.

During the reactivation process, organic compounds that have been captured by granular activated carbon (GAC) are destroyed by being subjected to high temperatures that, at the same time, restore the carbon to a usable state.

“Clean, safe drinking water is essential to sustaining growth and economic prosperity,” said Randy Dearth, president and CEO of Calgon Carbon. “With this new plant, we will be able to efficiently provide high-quality reactivated carbon to water treatment

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