Air Filtration Market News for Feb. 10
Here are the excerpts for the month of Feb. ‘10 to the Air Filtration & Purification Markets Updates. For more information click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n022 .
Many projects, mergers and acquisitions are detailed in monthly updates in the Market Report’s Chapters under Industry Analysis: Aerospace, Food, Disk Drive, Flat Panel, Metalworking, Other Electronics, Pharmaceutical, Power, Pulp Mills, Semiconductor and Transportation.
The pace of housing starts will speed up this spring, slow and perhaps reverse course at mid-year, and then re-accelerate next winter and into 2011, the National Association of Home Builders' chief economist David Crowe forecast recently at the International Builders' Show in Las Vegas.
Crowe forecast starts would climb to 688,000 in the second quarter of 2010…
The US Commerce Department recently reported US housing starts rose in January to their highest level in seven months. Starts rose 2.8 percent…
Ahlstrom reported 2009 net sales were $2.29 billion (EUR 1.6 billion) compared to $2.58 billion (EUR 1.8 billion) for 2008. EBIT amounted to $-20.9 million (EUR -14.6 million) including non-recurring items of $77.8 million…
Donaldson Company, Inc. (NYSE: DCI), a leading, worldwide manufacturer of filtration systems and parts, today announced a comprehensive Campaign for Cleaner Cabin Air in commercial airliners. The campaign will officially debut in the first quarter of 2010…
Hollingsworth & Vose will purchase the AQF line of patented carbon-containing composite filtration media from fellow nonwovens producer Fiberweb. The transaction, which is expected to close in the near term, will allow H&V to better serve the growing global market need for gas phase filter media…
Noveko International Inc recently announced that its subsidiary, Noveko Trading 2008 LLC, has concluded an exclusive distribution agreement with Israeli-based Zer Hitech Ltd a subsidiary of the ZER Group, a leading biotechnology company. The agreement covers the distribution of Noveko(TM) antimicrobial masks and respirators, Microban(R) hand sanitizers, air filters incorporating the Noveko(TM) antimicrobial filtration technology to hospitals and commercial buildings, as well as Epurair(TM) MA-1 HEPA air purifiers within the State of Israel…
As reported in this update last month, AAF-McQuay Inc. (a subsidiary of Daikin Industries, LTD) is to be awarded $2.7 million in renewable energy project manufacturing investment tax credits as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009…
Filtration specialist Porvair plc has secured orders worth £500 000 for nuclear filtration gas clean up filters in the UK and development orders in the US and France.
The Porvair gas clean up filters, for UK AGR reactors, form a critical part of the gas heat transfer system at the core of the reactor…
North Carolina-based Flanders Corp. is opening a plant in southern Oklahoma and will begin operations by April, Ardmore Development Authority officials said recently.
Flanders has purchased a former Best Buy building in Ardmore’s New Horizons Industrial Park, said Brien Thorstenberg, ADA’s vice president of development…
US-based nonwovens manufacturer Polymer Group Inc. (PGI) has announced plans to expand and upgrade spunmelt operations in the United States and China with the installation of state-of-the-art, custom-designed machinery in PGI manufacturing facilities in both countries…
The Andrea air filter enhances the power of plants to remove airborne pollutants, particularly formaldehyde. It works by encasing any houseplant in a podlike housing and using a fan to quietly boost airflow through the leaves and roots of a houseplant. It also draws air through water and soil for additional filtration…
RGF Environmental Group, an environmental products manufacturer has introduced a new product for the HVAC / Indoor Air Quality Industry. The AUV Stick Lite + is a new take on the tried and true UV lamp system used to keep microbial growth from fouling HVAC coils…
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