Pall Awarded Contract to Provide System for North America's Largest Pressurized Ultrafiltration Drinking Water Plant
Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) announced that it was awarded a $15.8
million contract by Minneapolis Water Works to provide a Pall Aria(TM)
membrane water treatment system for the city's Fridley membrane
filtration plant. Fridley will be the largest pressurized
ultrafiltration (UF) plant in North America, with a capacity of 95
million gallons of water per day. The Pall Aria system will be used to
provide a reliable supply of safe drinking water to businesses and
residents of the city of Minneapolis and surrounding areas.
Minneapolis draws its drinking water from the Mississippi River.
This poses many challenges due to rapid changes in water quality and
variations in turbidity, temperature and contamination. To overcome
them, the City turned to membrane ultrafiltration, one of the most
advanced technologies available to cost-effectively provide the
highest quality drinking water. Pall won the contract after
Minneapolis Water Works completed extensive performance testing of
competing ultrafiltration membrane pilot scale systems in June. The
pilot tests demonstrated that the Pall Aria UF membrane system
successfully and efficiently removed microbial pathogens (viruses,
bacteria and protozoan cysts) and particulate contaminants from the
source water.
"The City of Minneapolis is on the leading edge when it comes to
implementing state-of-the-art water treatment technologies and
upgrading its facilities to meet current and anticipated future
regulations," says Jeff Seibert, President, Pall Water Processing.
"While Fridley will be the largest pressurized ultrafiltration
membrane plant in North America, the Pall Aria system is available in
packaged or custom configurations to provide potable water for
communities of any size."
Pall is the leader in membrane technology solutions and provides
water treatment systems for more than 150 large and small
municipalities and industrial customers worldwide. In addition to
serving the $6 billion municipal water market, Pall's filtration
technology is increasingly becoming a critical step in treating water
for a wide range of industrial applications. This includes intake and
process water for food, beverage, chemical, oil, gas, power and
semiconductor production, among others. Pall's technology enables
businesses to conserve and reuse water, and to restore wastewater to
environmentally safe levels before discharge.
CH2M HILL, a global full-service engineering, construction and
operations firm, will design, manage construction and commission the
Fridley plant, which is expected to be fully operational in 2011.
About Pall Corporation
Pall Corporation is the global leader in the rapidly growing field
of filtration, separation and purification. Pall is organized into two
businesses: Life Sciences and Industrial. These businesses provide
leading-edge products to meet the demanding needs of customers in
biotechnology, pharmaceutical, transfusion medicine, energy,
electronics, municipal and industrial water purification, aerospace,
transportation and broad industrial markets. Total revenues for fiscal
year 2006 were $2.0 billion. The Company headquarters is in East
Hills, New York with extensive operations throughout the world. For
more information visit Pall at www.pall.com.
Editor's Note:
Photos and additional information about the Pall Aria system can
be found at www.pall.com/corporate_41496.asp or www.pall.com/water.