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Industry news 7 Filtration+Separation January/February 2014 Clarcor acquires Bekaert Advanced Filtration FLSmidth supplies cement production line, including filters, to Qatar Lewabrane filter elements treat German power plant’s water Clarcor Inc has bought NV Bekaert SA’s Bekaert Advanced Filtration business for €6 million. Like Clarcor’s Purolator EFP subsidiary, the Advanced Filtration business manufactures and supplies engineered metal filters and systems used primarily in the polymer fibre and plastics industries. Clarcor has renamed the newly acquired business Purolator Advanced Filtration. With estimated 2013 sales of €15 million and approximately 170 employees, Purolator Advanced Filtration has manufacturing facilities in Belgium and Indonesia, as well as sales personnel in North and South America. The acquisition includes a supply contract that will allow the combined business to continue to purchase specialised Bekipor metal fibre filtration media from Bekaert for incorporation into certain products. Christopher Conway, Clarcor’s chairman, president and CEO, said: “Bekaert is known in the industry for its top level engineering capabilities and superior product quality, and it is not uncommon for customers with demanding applications to insist upon Bekaert Advanced Filtration systems and filters. The acquisition of the Advanced Filtration business will expand the technical capabilities of Purolator EFP, improve the product offerings that the company brings to market and help us continue to grow in Europe and in Asia.” • Clarcor has also completed the acquisition of the air filtration business of General Electric Co’s Power & Water division (see Filtration+Separation, November/ December 2013). Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, USA, the acquired business supplies air filtration systems and filters used in gas turbine applications, as well as industrial air filtration products and membranes. Under Clarcor ownership, the air filtration business will maintain and promote the BHA and Altair names and operate as Clarcor Industrial Air. The business’s results will be included in Clarcor’s Industrial/Environmental Filtration segment. www.clarcor.com www.bekaert.com www.ge-energy.com/filtration FLSmidth has received a DKK515 million order from Qatari cement producer Al Khalij Cement to provide a complete cement production line for a plant in Umm Bab, approximately 100 km east of Doha. The order includes all main equipment for the production line: conveyor transport systems, mills, complete pyro line, electrical and automation systems as well as filters. The production line will be a duplicate of the existing line, which was supplied by FLSmidth in 2007. FLSmidth will engineer the plant and supply the main equipment for the production line, which is being supplied in cooperation with CNBM International Engineering, part of China National Building Materials (CNBM). www.flsmidth.com LANXESS’s fouling-resistant membrane technology is being used on a large scale in Europe for the first time. A set of 60 Lewabrane RO B400 FR filter elements at the Dammweg thermal power station in Chemnitz, Germany apply a reverse osmosis process to cleanse 50–60 cubic metres of pre-treated river water per hour for steam generation purposes. “The 90% reduction in the organic contamination of river water demanded by the operator of the power plant can be easily achieved using our membrane technology,” said Dr Jens Lipnizki, head of membranes technical marketing in LANXESS’s Liquid Purification Technologies business unit. The reverse osmosis facility in the Chemnitz power plant was developed and designed by the Celle-based water technology company Berkefeld, a subsidiary of the global group Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies. www.lewabrane.com Lewabrane membrane elements at the Dammweg thermal power plant’s reverse osmosis facility in Chemnitz, Germany (Courtesy of eins energie in sachsen GmbH & Co KG). Nederman secures major air filtration order from US textile industry Nederman is to supply a SEK93 million complete turnkey air filtration and air conditioning system to Gildan Yarns LLC’s new yarn spinning facility that is under construction in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. The order includes more than 30 automatic panel filters, fine dust filters, a complete hi-vacuum waste removal, a reclaim system and 6 km of ducts. The Nederman system will reduce dust levels in the new production facility to meet OSHA regulations (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) and supply conditioned air to the yarn processing equipment to maintain high production levels. It will also reduce the energy required by as much as 25% over conventional air conditioning supply systems. “This is one of our largest orders ever. It has been taken in tough competition but we believe that it is an important order in a market where the textile industry increasingly moves back production to the US again,” said Sven Kristensson, Nederman’s CEO. Installation of the Nederman system is expected to start during the first half of 2014 and be completed during 2015. www.nederman.com

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Industry news 7

Filtration+Separation January/February 2014

Clarcor acquires Bekaert Advanced Filtration

FLSmidth supplies cement production line, including filters, to Qatar

Lewabrane filter elements treat German power plant’s waterClarcor Inc has bought NV

Bekaert SA’s Bekaert Advanced Filtration business for €6 million.

Like Clarcor’s Purolator EFP subsidiary, the Advanced Filtration business manufactures and supplies engineered metal filters and systems used primarily in the polymer fibre and plastics industries. Clarcor has renamed the newly acquired business Purolator Advanced Filtration.

With estimated 2013 sales of €15 million and approximately 170 employees, Purolator Advanced Filtration has manufacturing facilities in Belgium and Indonesia, as well as sales personnel in North and South America.

The acquisition includes a supply contract that will allow the combined business to continue to purchase specialised Bekipor metal fibre filtration media from Bekaert for incorporation into certain products.

Christopher Conway, Clarcor’s chairman, president and CEO, said: “Bekaert is known in the industry for its top level engineering capabilities and superior product quality, and it

is not uncommon for customers with demanding applications to insist upon Bekaert Advanced Filtration systems and filters. The acquisition of the Advanced Filtration business will expand the technical capabilities of Purolator EFP, improve the product offerings that the company brings to market and help us continue to grow in Europe and in Asia.”

• Clarcor has also completed the acquisition of the air filtration business of General Electric Co’s Power & Water division (see Filtration+Separation, November/December 2013). Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, USA, the acquired business supplies air filtration systems and filters used in gas turbine applications, as well as industrial air filtration products and membranes. Under Clarcor ownership, the air filtration business will maintain and promote the BHA and Altair names and operate as Clarcor Industrial Air. The business’s results will be included in Clarcor’s Industrial/Environmental Filtration segment.

www.clarcor.comwww.bekaert.comwww.ge-energy.com/filtration

FLSmidth has received a DKK515 million order from Qatari cement producer Al Khalij Cement to provide a complete cement production line for a plant in Umm Bab, approximately 100 km east of Doha.

The order includes all main equipment for the production line: conveyor transport systems, mills, complete pyro line, electrical and automation systems as well as filters.

The production line will be a duplicate of the existing line, which was supplied by FLSmidth in 2007.

FLSmidth will engineer the plant and supply the main equipment for the production line, which is being supplied in cooperation with CNBM International Engineering, part of China National Building Materials (CNBM).

www.flsmidth.com

LANXESS’s fouling-resistant membrane technology is being used on a large scale in Europe for the first time.

A set of 60 Lewabrane RO B400 FR filter elements at the Dammweg thermal power station in Chemnitz, Germany apply a reverse osmosis process to cleanse 50–60 cubic metres of pre-treated river water per hour for steam generation purposes.

“The 90% reduction in the organic contamination of river water demanded by the operator

of the power plant can be easily achieved using our membrane technology,” said Dr Jens Lipnizki, head of membranes technical marketing in LANXESS’s Liquid Purification Technologies business unit.

The reverse osmosis facility in the Chemnitz power plant was developed and designed by the Celle-based water technology company Berkefeld, a subsidiary of the global group Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies.

www.lewabrane.com

Lewabrane membrane elements at the Dammweg thermal power plant’s reverse

osmosis facility in Chemnitz, Germany (Courtesy of eins energie in sachsen GmbH &

Co KG).

Nederman secures major air filtration order from US textile industryNederman is to supply a SEK93 million complete turnkey air filtration and air conditioning system to Gildan Yarns LLC’s new yarn spinning facility that is under construction in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA.

The order includes more than 30 automatic panel filters, fine dust filters, a complete hi-vacuum waste removal, a reclaim system and 6 km of ducts.

The Nederman system will reduce dust levels in the new production facility to meet OSHA regulations (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) and supply conditioned air to the yarn processing equipment to maintain

high production levels. It will also reduce the energy required by as much as 25% over conventional air conditioning supply systems.

“This is one of our largest orders ever. It has been taken in tough competition but we believe that it is an important order in a market where the textile industry increasingly moves back production to the US again,” said Sven Kristensson, Nederman’s CEO.

Installation of the Nederman system is expected to start during the first half of 2014 and be completed during 2015.

www.nederman.com

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