Subject: Air Filtration Updates
The online Air Filtration and Purification Summary and Background section was recently updated. Here is how it starts out:
SUMMARY
Revised October, 2005
Sales of filters to purify recirculating air in homes, commercial building, and industrial plants around the world will rise from $6 billion in 2005 to $7.5 billion in 2009.
The biggest growth will ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here are excerpts from the October Updates
Construction
U.S. housing starts jumped 3.4 percent in September and permits for future groundbreaking surged to a 32-year high, defying forecasts for --------------------------------
Financials
Flanders Corporation announced its results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2005. Earnings from operations were $3.7 million or --------------------------------------------
HVAC
Scientists at the National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering studied removal efficiency of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by a photocatalytic filter in a heating, ventilating and air-conditioning -----------------------------
Cabin Air
Each new report of an avian (bird) flu outbreak raises questions about whether airplane cabin air can transmit the virus, which some scientist predict could be the source of the next major global influenza epidemic.
Joe Lundquist, an airplane filtration technology expert at Pall Corporation, points ---------
Non-Wovens
Non-Wovens Industry reports the leading non-wovens producers in the world, based on their 2004 sales. Freudenberg continues as the world’s largest producer of non-wovens, reporting U.S. $1.4 billion in sales. Others not far behind are DuPont and Kimberly-Clark, $1.25 billion -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Company News
Dectron Internationale Inc., Montreal, and Engineering Resources Ltd. of Britain have struck a $2 million deal to supply environmental control systems for an Indonesian pulp and paper mill. The companies will supply air purification ------------------------------------
Filtration Group has opened a new manufacturing plant in York, SC. The company is combining resources and bringing its entire East coast HVAC filter manufacturing under one roof to----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Bob McIlvaine
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