In the ever changing world of filtration, we know the importance of filtration process. There is hardly human activity, industrial, commercial, domestic, that is not affected by filters.
In the ever changing world of filtration, we know the importance of filtration process. There is hardly human activity, industrial, commercial, domestic, that is not affected by filters.
The Filtration Business
It is very widely used process, from the kitchen counter top water filter to the enormous wastewater treatment plants, or from delicate membrane filter to the rugged tipping pan filter of the mineral processing works. It has major processing role in many industry and all service applications such as hydraulic control system.
It is estimated that the total world market for filtration and sedimentation equipment in 2021 will be in the region of in billions dollar as per different-different market research sites globally and in India.
The business is dominating by liquid filtration, which makes up about 84% of the world market and similarly by clarification duties, which are close to 70% of the market – so that the contamination removal process represents more than two-thirds of business of filtration and sedimentation.
Filtration and separation technology is all around you in modern industrialized countries, and is rapidly being applied in developing countries as well.
As a global business segment approaching $85 Billion in annual revenues, filtration and separation stays below the average consumer’s radar because the product that they generally purchase is not a filter.
What consumers buy is a wine, beer or other beverages that has been filtered; they buy trucks and automobiles that actually contain dozens of filters; they receive injections from doctors and nurses that have been filtered; and they fly in planes whose jet fuel, hydraulic fluids and cabin air have been filtered.
What filtration and separation technologies do is make the products and services that we buy or consume everyday possible, or cleaner, or safer.
One of major changes that quarter-century brought is the controlling influence of legislation enacted nationally or internationally and covering the wide range of industry sectors, primarily influencing their environmental impact, all the way from extraction of raw materials through to use of finished products.
How the filtration business grow?
Another major driving force for change in the filtration business comes from the end-users, whose increasingly precise business-every process of production whether in making semiconductors or producing drinking water, in a machine shop or making beer – continually demand finer and finer degrees of filtration.
This driver affects the filter medium more than the filter itself, but there is quite bit of change to be seen in the whole filter unit to accommodate these media changes.
The usage of filtration and similar separation equipments is quite evenly spread throughout the economy, with the two largest end-use sectors being those in which the largest numbers of individual filters are found.
The domestic and commercial sector with its many water filters is one, and transport systems sector with its huge number of engine filters for intake air, fuels and coolants is the other.
The fastest growing of these sector is expected to be that for fresh and wastewater treatment (The third largest sector), followed quite closely by the fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals groups.
The filtration and separation business is becoming increasingly more technical, with more stringent demands being continuously place upon its products, in parallel with this.
There is the obvious need for equipment suppliers like us to ensure that they have on hand the highly knowledgeable engineers able to analyze and solve the consequent problems.