Air Filtration Market News for Sept. 09

 

Here are the excerpts for the month of September ’09 to the Air Filtration & Purification Markets Updates.  For more information to Air Filtration & Purification Markets, 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.

 

A new link has been added to the market report: Decisive Classification. The purpose of this section is to explain the segmentation of geographical markets and also to establish specific labels for each segment. Many subscribers want the definition of our groupings of small countries in sub regions. This section provides both the segmentation logic and the nomenclature.

INDUSTRY NEWS

Filtration 2009

Filtration 2009 International Conference and Exposition will be held at Chicago’s Navy Pier November 17-19……………………………..

Japan Market for Meltblown Nonwovens

The commercial HVAC filter demand for middle/high efficiency meltblown nonwovens and glass fiber media in Japan is estimated at 28 million square meters a year, according to Osaka Marketing……………………………………….

CONSTRUCTION

August Single-Family Housing Starts in U.S. Decline

Builders in the U.S. broke ground on fewer single-family homes in August. Single-family projects dropped 3 percent………………………………

 

Permits, a sign of future construction, climbed 2.7 percent to a 579,000 annual rate in August…

 

Non-residential Building Market

The Associated Builders and Contractors released its latest Construction Backlog Indicator, which shows an 8.9 percent increase in backlogs in July…………………………..

FINANCIALS

Clarcor Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Clarcor Inc. reported that third quarter 2009 net sales decreased by 17 percent and operating profit decreased by 21 percent compared to the same quarter in 2008. Net earnings decreased by 18 percent compared to the third quarter of 2008……………………..

Donaldson Q4 Profit Falls; Projects Lower 2010 Sales

Donaldson reported fourth-quarter profit of $23.6 million compared with $48.6 million a year ago. Sales fell 31 percent to $421.3 million, having declined at both its engine and industrial product segments…………………………………..

MFRI Announces Earnings

MFRI announced record earnings for the second quarter and the six months ended July 31, 2009. For the second quarter 2009, Company net sales were $61.1 million, 21.3 percent less than $77.6 million for the prior-year`s second quarter……………………………………

COMPANY NEWS

Daikin to Acquire Japanese Air Filter Company Nippon Muki

Daikin Industries Ltd has reached a definitive agreement with Nippon Sheet Glass Co Ltd to acquire Japanese air filter manufacturer Nippon Muki Co Ltd for ₯5 billion. Nippon Muki manufactures and sells air filters and clean room products……………………….

Carrier Corporation Acquires Air Purification Technology Firm StrionAir

Carrier Corp., a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has acquired StrionAir, a producer of proprietary air purification systems employing patented "capture and kill" technology……………………………………………

Flanders Signs $15.5 m Filtration Purchase Agreement

Flanders Corp has won a US $15.5 million contract from Shaw AREVA MOX Services LLC to supply 145 Filtration Containment Systems for the Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility currently being built at the Savannah River Site near Aiken in South Carolina, USA.

 

The Flanders project is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2009 and will take about one year from design through to delivery…………………………………..

Camfil Farr Publishes Sustainability Report

Camfil Farr has become the first air filtration company in the world to publish a corporate Sustainability Report. The recently released report describes the company's initial sustainability actions, goals and performance indicators…………………………………..

NEW PRODUCTS

Donaldson Process Sterile Air Filter Elements for Process Gases

Donaldson Company (NYSE:DCI offers the Donaldson Process Sterile Air Filter Elements (P-SRF N), a pleated depth sterile air filter element used for sterile filtration of compressed air, process air, technical gases and vent applications…………………………………………

Moisture Resistance from Engineered Filtration Systems V2-Bank Filter

The V2-Bank Filter manufactured by Engineered Filtration Systems (EFS) provides exceptionally low pressure drop (.49”) at high efficiency levels (90-95%/MERV14)……….

 

Bob McIlvaine

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