Things are looking up as we find out when Robert W. McIlvaine, President, McIlvaine Company, USA looks ahead to the new Millennium at the likely performance of the filtration industry in a range of markets. The first year of the new century will be a good one for the filtration industry. Asia is showing signs of life and the high tech industries are starting another growth cycle.
Cartridges are the largest segment of the industry followed by sedimentation and centrifugation.
But macrofiltration and mobile filtration are also significant segments. Mobile filtration is a category that includes cartridges for air and liquids used in automobiles, planes, trains, and mobile vehicles. Cartridges are dead-end filters as opposed to crossflow such as in reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration. Membranes have had a tremendous impact on this industry. Pall is the world leader in cartridges and derives a significant portion of its revenue from membrane cartridges.