Pharmaceutical firm picks USFilter for USP28 purified water system at Puerto Rico plant

Oct. 5, 2005
Company to supply system consisting of a hot-water-sanitizable carbon, break tank and vent filter pre-treatment equipment skid, a hot-water-sanitizable two-pass RO skid, a hot-water-sanitizable CDI-LX continuous EDI skid and a clean-in-place skid. Other company news includes: Fully equipped diving crew added to on-site services; Cosmetics firm picks USFilter for water treatment equipment at Ark. facility; Albuquerque picks USFilter for filter system; Mobile clarification fleet expanded...

WARRENDALE, PA, Oct. 5, 2005 -- A leading pharmaceutical company has chosen USFilter to upgrade and expand the company's existing USP Purified Water system at its Puerto Rico manufacturing plant, the unit of Siemens Water Technologies announced yesterday.

USFilter will supply a USP 28 Purified Water system consisting of a hot-water-sanitizable carbon, break tank and vent filter pre-treatment equipment skid, a hot-water-sanitizable two-pass reverse osmosis skid, a hot-water-sanitizable CDI-LX™ continuous electrodeionization skid and a clean-in-place skid to Amgen's Juncos, Puerto Rico facility. The new system will increase the flow rate from 15-35 gpm and is designed for seamless integration into the existing system.

"In addition to providing this client with a complete USP Purified Water system, we will also conduct a factory acceptance test at our facility in Colorado Springs," says Jeff Okun, biopharmaceutical director of sales and marketing for USFilter. "This will help them greatly speed up their validation and system qualification process."

L.G. Scott (Lockwood Greene Puerto Rico, Inc.) is the engineer on the project. System installation is scheduled for late summer. USFilter will start up the system and provide hands-on training to the manufacturing plant's personnel.

Amgen has maintained a presence in Puerto Rico for more than a decade, achieving an outstanding quality and compliance record while setting the standard for manufacturing processes. Currently, the company plans to invest $1.2 billion to add another 500,000 square feet and create state-of-the-art biotechnology facilities for bulk manufacturing in Juncos. The new site will include manufacturing plants for key biologics, expanded full-testing quality and analytical labs, additional syringe fill and freeze-drying capability and warehouses. Also under construction are process development facilities, administrative and training buildings, a cafeteria and a child care center.

Based in Warrendale, Pa., with offices and installations around the world, USFilter (www.usfilter.com) is a $1.2 billion water company with 5,800 experienced professionals dedicated to delivering cost-effective, reliable water and wastewater treatment systems and services. It's a unit of Siemens Water Technologies Inc., which is itself part of Germany's Siemens A.G.

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In other recent company news:
"Siemens, 3Com form strategic alliance to provide enterprise security and data networking alternative" -- MARLBOROUGH, MA, & BOCA RATON, FL, Oct. 5, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 3Com Corp. and Siemens Communications Inc., a unit of Siemens A.G., parent company of USFilter, today announced a new global strategic alliance and master reseller agreement to integrate and sell -- via Siemens' direct sales organization and indirect channels -- a range of cost-competitive data networking and enterprise security products, and a full suite of complementary services...

"Shaw Environmental, U.S. Army select Zimpro system to destroy neutralized chemical warfare material" -- Wet air oxidation unit is under construction for destruction of material as part of U.S. Army non-stockpile chemical materiel project -- WARRENDALE, PA, Sept. 23, 2005 -- Shaw Environmental and the U.S. Army have chosen a Zimpro® wet air oxidation (WAO) system from USFilter, a part of Siemens Water Technologies, to treat a waste stream generated by the destruction of chemical warfare material, as part of the U.S. Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project (NSCMP). The system is currently under construction and will be installed at Texas Molecular LLC, a commercial waste treatment facility in Deer Park, Texas, which will host the WAO system for this project...

"USFilter adds fully equipped diving crew to on-site services" -- WARRENDALE, PA, Sept. 23, 2005 -- USFilter is adding a fully equipped service crew with underwater construction capabilities to its raw water intake products group. The on-site services unit from USFilter Envirex Products will be able to supply both above deck and below deck labor, which in the past has been separately contracted. This total service offering will help bring plants back online quicker. Mud, silt and debris removal from water intake structures, underwater inspections and underwater repairs of water intake bar racks and screens are among the new available services...

"Siemens to donate $2 million to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts" -- Company is also sending power, medical, water and telecommunications equipment -- NEW YORK, Sep 12, 2005 -- Siemens' 70,000 U.S. employees so far have donated $1,000,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. Siemens is matching those donations dollar-for-dollar. In addition, the company continues its deployment of critical infrastructure equipment, including power generators to hospitals in Houston and Louisiana, telecommunications equipment to emergency centers and key hubs and USFilter water treatment equipment to the Gulf Coast areas. The company also is sending heart monitors and imaging equipment to Houston area hospitals...

"Cosmetics company selects USFilter to provide water treatment equipment for Arkansas manufacturing facility" -- WARRENDALE, PA, Sept. 9, 2005 -- A leading cosmetics company, L'Oreal, has selected USFilter to provide a new hot-purified-water distribution loop and associated make-up purification equipment for its one-million-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility in Arkansas. Siemens is supplying a 10-gallon-per-minute reverse osmosis make-up system and a continuous hot-purified-water loop from USFilter. The system will provide water to several process stations. Using standard designs, USFilter added select features to customize the system to meet the customer's requirements...

"USFilter secures filter system order for Albuquerque" -- Combined air-water backwash of GAC media -- WARRENDALE, PA, Sept. 9, 2005 -- The city of Albuquerque, N.M., has awarded USFilter the contract to supply a filter system for the city's new 92-mgd drinking water treatment facility. The company was selected to supply the filter underdrain, washtroughs, and granular activated carbon (GAC) media valued at approximately $2.5 million. The project was driven by the need to improve surface water quality by addressing taste and odor issues...

USFilter assisting utilities to meet new arsenic rule -- Activity increasing to meet rule deadline -- WARRENDALE, PA, Sept. 1, 2005 -- As the Jan. 23, 2006, effective date for the new arsenic rule rapidly approaches, utilities across the country are working to get treatment systems into operation. The new rule requires thousands of utilities to reduce arsenic in their drinking water from the current standard of 50 parts per billion (ppb) to the new 10 ppb limit. USFilter is actively engaged in assisting many systems across the country to meet the new treatment goal...

USFilter expands mobile clarification fleet -- Systems provide uninterrupted water supply, prevent downtime for manufacturers -- WARRENDALE, PA, Sept. 1, 2005 -- USFilter, a part of Siemens Water Technologies, announced that it has expanded its mobile clarification fleet to meet the needs of industrial and potable water users. Two new trailers have been commissioned, expanding the fleet by 20%...

"USFilter to supply primary wastewater treatment technology for Alberta's capital city" -- WARRENDALE, PA, Aug. 30, 2005 -- The city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has chosen USFilter, a part of Siemens Water Technologies, to provide primary wastewater treatment technology for an upgrade and expansion of its Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). USFilter will supply Zimpro® inclined plate separators and Envirex® HS730 Loop Chain and scraper systems for the plant's new, enhanced primary treatment process...

"Florida utility selects USFilter for $10 million wastewater treatment expansion" -- WARRENDALE, PA, Aug. 29, 2005 -- Regional Utilities of Walton County, Fla., has selected USFilter to provide an approximately $10 million turnkey wastewater treatment expansion for the Sandestin Resort and Seacrest communities in the Florida panhandle about 50 miles east of Pensacola. Currently, Regional Utilities uses USFilter technology and systems at three of its plants in the -- Point Washington, Seacrest and the Sandestin Resort facilities...

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