Pall Corporation

Description

Pall Corporation is a specialty materials and engineering company with the broadest-based filtration and separations capabilities in the world. It serves a diverse, global customer base in three major markets: health care, aeropower, and fluid processing. The company's proprietary products are used to purify raw materials, keep equipment running, ensure product quality, and clean up and minimize waste.

Markets

Pall's leading-edge products provide critical filtration and separation solutions in three major markets worldwide: aeropower, fluid processing, and health care. Pall products remove contaminants from hydraulic and lubricating fluids, fuels, and air for the world's leading producers of aircraft, ships, steel, paper, machinery, and vehicles. Pall's fluid processing products improve oil drilling and refining, power generation, and production of chemicals and computer chips. Within the health care market, Pall products protect hospital patients from contaminants in intravenous, respiratory, and blood product therapy, aid in drug production; and immobilize diagnostic reagents. Pall BioPharmaceuticals provides direct-flow and cross-flow filtration products, expertise, and validation services in the pharmaceutical, biological, and biotechnology industries.

Services

The Pall scientific and laboratory services (SLS) and validation services groups have been a cornerstone of support to customers for more than 25 years, with some 400 PhD scientists, engineers, and technicians, in 30 fully equipped laboratories in the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Worldwide technical/validation support staff provides customers with up-to-the-minute information and workable solutions to the most challenging filtration, separations, and validation problems.

Products

Major products include the following:

* The new line of UpScale scaleable filter products

* The new line of Preflow filters for the bioburden reduction of biologicals

* The NovaSIP line of self-contained, disposable steam-in-place (SIP) filter assemblies

* The expanded line of Fluorodyne 11 PVDF filters, including the 0. 1 - pm DJL- grade filter for enhanced sterility assurance

* The Ultipor VF family of virus filters for highprotein transmissive virus filtration

* The expanded Kleenpak line of filter capsule assemblies including gamma irradiatable and presterilized assemblies

* Membrane filter cartridges for liquid sterilization and microbial- and particle-retention including Ultipor N66 filters, Posidyne charge-enhanced filters, and Bio-Inert low-protein binding nylon 6,6 membranes

* Supor PES filters for low protein-binding applications

* Emflon sterile air filter cartridges featuring Pall FTE membranes

* PaIltronic filter integrity test instruments for rapid, accurate confirmation and documentation of system integrity * Pall filter housings for economy, safety, and ease of use

* OEM capabilities for standard- or custommanufactured filter devices

*The Pall Filtron brand of cross-flow and dynamic separation systems.

Technologies

Technological applications include air and gas systems, - aseptic processing,- biologicals, bioprocessing, and fermentation; active pharmaceutical ingredients and bulk pharmaceutical chemicals,, downstream processing; large- and small-volume parenterals,- ophthalmics,- and water systems.

Facilities

Pall maintains manufacturing facilities in the United States, Puerto Rico, England, Ireland, Japan, China, and India and technical support facilities throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. All are certified to ISO 9001 quality systems.

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Pall Corporation

2200 Northern Boulevard East Hills, NY 11548

Tel: (800) 717-7255 (516) 484-5400

Fax: (516) 625-3610 www.pall.com custsvc@pall.com Employees: 9,000

Founded:1946