Subject: Liquid Filtration Market News For April 06
Here are excerpts for the month of April 06 in the Updates to Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets. The updates reflect only some of the new additions. The analysis and revenues are constantly revised. For more information, click on: Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/water.html#n006 .
LIQUID FILTRATION MARKET
UPDATE
April 2006
PHARMACEUTICALS
The forecast for the pharmaceutical market has been updated and is included in the Pharmaceutical Industry Analysis. North America and Europe remain the two largest production centers for pharmaceuticals.
The U. S. pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing industry consists of about 2,500 plants located throughout the country. These include establishments that make pharmaceutical preparations or finished drugs; biological products, such as serums and vaccines; bulk chemicals and botanicals used in making finished drugs; and diagnostic substances. The U.S. employed 300,000 people in the pharmaceutical industry. Of these 90,000 are ...
FOOD
Recently the EUs food industry called on political leaders to get behind a proposed economic growth program for the bloc, especially in relation research, small and medium-sized businesses, energy policy and social reform.
The EU food and drink industry is the largest manufacturing sector in Europe, with an annual production valued at 815
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Coors Brewing Co. is spending nearly $200 million to convert its pre-existing, Elkton, VA, bottling plant into a brewery. When completed, the facility will become Coors third U.S. brewery.
Bud Antle Inc., a subsidiary of Dole, is investing $54 million to build and equip a vegetable processing plant in Gaston County, NC. The project is expected to create 525 jobs, expand Doles distribution network and facilitate delivery of its salad products to southern and east coast customers.
London, England-based Tate & Lyle is investing $100 million in a plant expansion that will boost capacity of modified food starch and maltodextrin at its Lafayette, IN, plant.
Smithfield Packaging Co. has ..
Louis Dreyfus Corp. plans to build a $100 million soybean processing plant in .
BEVERAGES
Yantai North Andre Juice, a maker of apple-juice concentrate, plans to invest U.S. $50 million (HK $390 million) to set up a pectin production plant in Shandong province ..
CHEMICALS
No new ethylene capacity is planned in North America for the remainder of the decade. Though the industry is back on its feet after the downturn of 2001 and 2002, producers are still
Instead of building grassroots plants, petrochemical producers say they will focus on smaller improvement projects
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Work on the $10 billion Petrorabigh petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia has started, .
WASTEWATER
A rising number of large-scale enterprises in China are outsourcing wastewater treatment to professional contractors to concentrate on their core businesses, and most importantly ..
MINING
NMA has predicted coal production and consumption in the United States would hit record levels in 2006, while demand for gold and copper would remain.
METALS
POWER PLANTS
ETHANOL
Pneumapressฎ Filter Corporation has announced the installation and start-up of a new automatic pressure filter in the biomass-to-ethanol industry. This unique filter was designed specifically for biomass filtration and was chosen over other ..
INDUSTRY NEWS
New Logic Research, Inc., the maker of VSEP, a vibratory membrane filtration system has announced the commissioning of a VSEP system to recycle process water at the KFx K-Fuel plant outside Gillette, Wyoming. The VSEP system, which employs reverse osmosis membranes, is fed process water used in the K-Fuel processor. The VSEP product water (permeate) is cleaned to such a purity level that it can be reused as the plants boiler feed water to make ..
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Bayside Capital has purchased the bank debt and equity of Beacon Industrial Group, and is actively seeking to invest in additional businesses in the industrial filtration industry. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina,
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Ahlstrom has made three filtration-related purchases in less than a month. In mid-January, The Helsinki-based company agreed to buy HRS Textiles, a Darlington, SC maker of specialty non-wovens serving mainly North American air and liquid filtration markets. The acquisition will strengthen Ahlstroms position in the air and liquid filtration markets in North America, particularly in the HVAC segment. It is expected to close before the end of the month, add approximately $20 million (17 million) in sales to Ahlstroms Filtration business and include all assets of HRS in Darlington, SC. The new entity will operate as part of Ahlstrom Air Media LLC. HRS currently employs 120 people. This acquisition follows back-to-back purchases, in December, of FiberMarks North American absorbent materials business and the filtration business of Lantor, Inc. The FiberMark business is expected
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Acting as the general contractor, the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is to build two turnkey wastewater treatment plants in the Romanian seaport of
The acquisition of Hayward Industries by Eaton Corporation was officially completed late last year. With operations in the ..
PRODUCT NEWS
Bag filter users no longer have to be concerned about installing a filter when the housing cover cannot be opened because of an overlooked or nearby obstruction. The FLOWLINE() Filter Housing from Eaton features a .
Recently, Fort Hill Energy purchased a Filtres Philippe Horizontal Vacuum Belt filter for use in tailings dewatering in their Fort McMurray Tar Sands Bitumen process circuit. Typical cake moistures of less than 10
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