In the dynamic and global filtration industry, news and information is breaking on a daily basis. International Filtration News is tracking stories relevant to our industry from air and gas filtration to liquid filtration and the various end-uses for filtration technology. Here we will post news stories relevant to filtration and its downstream applications on an ongoing basis. Please check back for regular updates. If you have news that you feel should be added to this summary report, please email it to Ken Norberg: ken@filtnews.com
Most recent update: October 18, 2024
Nephros Delivers Critical Disaster Response After Hurricanes Helene and Milton
Nephros, Inc., a leader in advanced filtration technology, has leveraged its significant disaster and emergency response capabilities to the Southeastern United States after recent hurricanes Helene and Milton. Nephros has provided crucial water filtration solutions to multiple healthcare and nursing care facilities affected by the storms, ensuring a safe supply of water to patients and staff amid recovery efforts.
Following natural disasters, access to clean, safe water is paramount for healthcare facilities, where contaminated water may severely compromise patient care and operations. The deployment of Nephros’ advanced filtration products enables and ensures reliable access to purified water during the most critical situations.
In recent weeks, Nephros has shipped a significant number of filters, responding after hours and delivering next day to both federal and local disaster response partners. To date, Nephros solutions have been deployed across multiple states within a variety of facility types. For instance:
- Throughout Florida in hospitals where Nephros in-line filters had been previously installed, facilities were prepared and protected when the hurricanes hit
- Across North Carolina, Nephros point-of-use filters provided immediate protection against bacteria to get nursing and care facilities back up and running
Nephros’ ability to act quickly and provide essential filtration solutions for disaster response and emergency preparedness underscores its commitment to clean water access. Nephros infection control products are vital to the delivery of purified water for drinking, dialysis, surgical operations, and general facility hygiene, and offer an effective alternative to typical emergency water sources. Critical to the company’s mission is the ability to provide high-quality water filtration in both routine and crisis situations. The speed and efficiency of the Nephros team allows for continuity of services in both everyday circumstances and compromised water events.
Donaldson Announces New Distribution Center to Serve its Mobile Solutions Aftermarket Filter Business
Donaldson Company, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of innovative filtration solutions, announced the opening of its newest distribution center in Olive Branch, Mississippi. This new facility will further strengthen Donaldson’s ability to meet growing customer demand in the mobile solutions aftermarket business, including the heavy-duty trucking, construction, mining, and agricultural equipment sectors.
The Olive Branch distribution center, located in the Memphis, Tennessee metropolitan area, will provide an additional 200,000 square feet of warehousing space to Donaldson’s distribution center footprint. Adding this new facility will provide the necessary room for the growth of the business while also providing the opportunity to further enhance the capabilities at the primary distribution center in Rensselaer, Indiana. The combined capabilities will enable more responsive service to customers and reinforce Donaldson’s commitment to operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
“Our industry-leading fill rates have been a cornerstone of Donaldson’s success in serving the mobile solutions aftermarket,” said Angela Zurick, vice president, mobile solutions aftermarket. “The addition of this new distribution center further enhances our ability to deliver products with speed and reliability, ensuring that our customers experience minimal downtime and maximum productivity. We are building on our reputation for unparalleled product availability, ensuring that our customers continue to receive the parts and filters they need, when they need them.”
Parker Hannifin Enhances Testing Capabilities
Parker Hannifin is strengthening its position in the air filtration sector with the development of a comprehensive new testing program designed for advanced gas turbine filtration systems. Decades long experience and an extensive research and development has led Parker to creating an even more effective filtration systems for the future through this initiative.
At the center of the program is the clearcurrent Assure TriDustPlus filter, engineered specifically for the latest gas turbines. Parker’s newly developed testing regime goes beyond standard industry requirements to include additional investigations like hydrophobic and oleophobic tests, preventing contaminants like saltwater and oil from entering the turbines. The company has also pioneered an ice rejection test designed to assess filters’ performance in extreme conditions.
The full suite of tests is focused on a single goal – ensuring that the filters still perform and achieve their primary function of dust removal and rejection under all conditions while minimizing disruptions to operation. Designed purposely within Parker for their products, these investigative techniques form part of a complete platform of comprehensive tests that put their filters on a quantifiable performance footing. The outcomes of the test program were fed back into the development of the clearcurrent Assure TriDustPlus filter and guarantee its unmatched performance in the most challenging of conditions.
Gessner Adds Activated Carbon to Electrostatic Air Filter Media
GESSNER now offers their Alphastar™ tribo-electric nonwoven and NeenahPure™ meltblown nonwoven with an activated carbon layer for pleatable and bag filters. These high-efficiency, electrostatic filter media can be developed meeting individual requirements from high efficiency filtration to standard requirements.
The activated carbon layer captures and neutralizes a wide range of impurities, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), odors, and other contaminants. Depending on the customers’ needs GESSNER develops the activated carbon layers for each individual application.
Alphastar™ triboelectric filter media provides superior filtration performance with high dust holding capacity, low resistance to airflow, and high removal efficiency. The NeenahPure™ product range is their highly charged meltblown media solution for pleatable and bag filters in HVAC, air purification & air pollution control applications to provide clean indoor air for a better protection.
With a range from highest to standard efficiency, covering efficiencies from MERV 8 – MERV 16 (ASHRAE) and from ePM10 – ePM1 (ISO 16890) and the technical possibilities to customize the activated carbon layer as well as the particle layer, GESSNER engineers filter media tailored to the specific requirements of each customer.
Camfil USA Introduces Megalam® ES – Filters for Life Sciences
Camfil USA, a global leader in air filtration and clean air solutions, announced the launch of the Megalam® ES ePTFE HEPA filter, a next-generation filtration solution for the life sciences industry. This innovative filter provides unprecedented durability, superior energy savings, and reduced risk of contamination, making it the ideal choice for critical applications like pharmaceuticals, clean rooms, and biotech facilities.
The Megalam® ES sets itself apart from traditional glass fiber HEPA filters with its multi-layer ePTFE media, providing exceptional strength while maintaining low airflow resistance. Its heavy-duty anodized aluminum frame, featuring Camfil’s exclusive Klip-Lok™ mechanism, ensures easy installation and long-lasting corner integrity, further enhancing the filter’s reliability and robustness.
BOFA Rebrands as Donaldson BOFA
Portable industrial fume and dust extraction company BOFA, in Poole, Dorset, UK, announced a name change to Donaldson BOFA. The rebranding is said to reflect a closer alignment with its parent company, Donaldson. Additionally, the company announced the merger of BOFA International and BOFA Americas into Donaldson Filtration (GB) and Donaldson Company Inc, respectively.
Donaldson BOFA, with offices in the UK, US, and Germany, said it’s eyeing growing market opportunities thanks to the parent company’s presence in more than 40 countries. It has access to over 100 technical laboratories, and an R&D spend standing at more than $78m.
With this resource, Donaldson BOFA is able to test new materials and processes more cost effectively and anticipates potential reductions in the time to market of new products and system evolutions.
Although Donaldson BOFA products are already sold to customers in 120 countries around the world, this closer alignment opens up new market opportunities for the business across a broader range of industries and applications.
DuPont Launches Digital Tool to Estimate Sustainability Impact from the Use of Water Treatment Technologies
DuPont recently introduced the Water Solutions Sustainability Navigator, the first digital tool designed to help users estimate key sustainability indicators when using various water treatment technologies—whether from DuPont or from other manufacturers.
The Water Solutions Sustainability Navigator enables users to compare how different potential water treatment scenarios impact sustainability indicators, including carbon emissions, chemicals used, wastewater produced, solid waste generated and footprint needed—with all calculations and indicators validated by a third-party verification performed by LRQA, a global assurance provider.
Carbon emission calculations are in conformance with ISO 14020:2001 and 14021:2016, and chemical, footprint, wastewater and solid waste calculations are in conformance with ISO 14020:2023 and ISO 14021:2016 + A1: 2021.
“While there are many factors that can influence the design and selection of water treatment technologies, the Water Solutions Sustainability Navigator will help users better understand the interconnection of sustainability-driven choices and the cost of operations,” said Jeroen Bloemhard, Vice President and General Manager, DuPont Water Solutions.
Currently, the tool allows users to input four different water treatment technologies—reverse osmosis (RO), ultrafiltration (UF), ion exchange resins (IER) and membrane bioreactors (MBR) —used alone or in combination.
Rensa Filtration Acquires The Filter Shop in Omaha and Des Moines
Rensa Filtration, a manufacturer and distributor of consumable, mission-critical air filtration products, announced that it has acquired The Filter Shop (thefiltershopinc.com), which has air filter distribution centers and service teams in Omaha, Nebraska, and Des Moines, Iowa, that serve customers throughout the region.
“I am pleased to announce our latest partnership with Ryan Dahlgaard and his team at The Filter Shop as we continue our journey to become a leading provider of air filtration products and services,” said Brandon Ost, Rensa’s founder and CEO. “The Filter Shop has developed an impressive base of filtration customers in education, healthcare, food manufacturing and data center facilities in the Midwest.”
“We take great pride in trying to provide our customers with the highest level of customer service in this industry, while addressing their commercial or industrial air filter needs since 2004,” commented Ryan Dahlgaard, founder, and President of The Filter Shop. “We will continue to solve air filtration needs with a broader range of innovative solutions and technologies provided by our new partnership with Rensa Filtration. With access to their full production facilities, engineers, and innovations coming from Rensa’s R&D team, we look forward to growing our raving fan base!”
Metso Expands Polishing Filtration Product Family
Metso is expanding its polishing filtration product family with the addition of the GM (Glass Media) filter. The Metso GM filter is designed to remove insoluble organics in battery metals processes by utilizing very efficient and patented coalescing media. With its cost-effective and modular design, the GM filter increases the recovery and recycling of valuable process chemicals.
“The GM filter is an ideal choice when insoluble organics need to be removed and recovered. Thanks to its efficient coalescing media for hydrometallurgical applications, the GM filter can perfect the removal and recovery of insoluble organics at a much higher velocity than the traditional coalescing medias. In applications where an Active Carbon (AC) filter needs to be used for dissolved organics adsorption from the process, the AC filter’s efficiency and media lifetime can be improved by utilizing a GM filter in front of it,” said Mika Vuorikari, Director of Industrial Filtration at Metso.
The Metso GM filter is designed for variable sizes of process streams and its modular design makes it easy to expand to meet plant process requirements. It also optimizes back washing with filtered process liquid and circulates back to the process, ensuring that water consumption is kept to a minimum. The low pumping pressure of the filter also results in lower energy consumption.
Together with the Dual Media (DM) and Active Carbon (AC) filters, Metso has a complete filtration portfolio for SX-electrowinning and -crystallization processes. Strong know-how and experience from the hydrometallurgical industry allows Metso to design industry-leading filtration solutions for battery minerals processing. Metso has delivered more than ninety DM and AC filters to metallurgical SX processes globally.
Microfiber Capture Technology for Textile Manufacturing
British climate-tech company Matter has launched its new microfiber capture technology, Regen.™, during New York Climate Week.
Regen, developed in collaboration with Paradise Textiles, is a self-cleaning filtration system designed to prevent microfibres from entering waterways by capturing them during the wastewater filtration process. The partnership will see Regen installed in Paradise Textiles’ new textile facility in Egypt next year.
Paradise Textiles, the material science arm of the Alpine Group – a major manufacturer of materials and apparel for brands such as The North Face, Lululemon, American Eagle Outfitters, and Puma – helped in developing the application of the technology for the textile industry. It provided insights into textile manufacturing processes, funded early research, and helped shape Matter’s Microfibre Assessment Program (MAP) to maximise fibre capture.
Matter also raised $10 million in their 2023 funding round, and is backed by investors including S2G Ventures, SOUNDwaves, and Regeneration.VC.
The microfiber technology is designed to tackle the estimated 120,000 tonnes of microfiber emissions generated from textile production each year.
Microfibers are a large contributor to microplastic pollution in water, air, soil, and food sources, and recent studies have warned against the alarming health concerns that microplastics have been linked to.
Cleanova Launches Groundbreaking Carbon Capture Filtration Tech
Cleanova recently announced the launch of its new filtration technology designed for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) applications. By capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from various sources, CCUS is set to play an important role in achieving global Net Zero emission targets.
To ensure that CO2 is free from both solid and liquid contamination, filtration technology is used to separate the captured gases from each other.
“Filtration technology plays a pivotal role at every stage in the carbon capture process, from the arrival of the feed gas, through chemical absorption to final storage and transportation,” explained Chris Nixon, Engineering and Products Director at Cleanova.
Each filtration solution has to be tailored to specific conditions such as CO2 concentration, the nature of the emission source, the presence of other contaminants, temperature and pressure.
The Cleanova.C-CLEAN technology suite includes UNIQ-MAX High Capacity Filters, which prevent absorb plugging by removing high quantities of suspended particles from feed gases.
This is in addition to liquid/gas coalescers to ensure solvent purity, activated carbon filters to eliminate hydrocarbons and contaminants and oil mist eliminators to ensure clean exhaust air, states the company.
