We are pleased to announce the opening of the New Jersey office
of AMERIDIA, the newly formed American branch office of Eurodia
Industrie. Boris Ferderber-Hersonski, Patrick Birdsall, Mattie Horvath,
and Daniel Bar, the founding team of Ameridia, were previously employed
by Aqualytics (Warren, NJ), which has ceased its operations in March
1999. This group has many years of experience in electrodialysis,
in particular electrodialysis with bipolar membranes used to convert
aqueous salt streams into acids and bases.
Eurodia Industrie S.A. is a French company with over twelve years
of experience in the design, construction, and operation of electrodialysis
(ED) plants with and without bipolar membranes. Eurodia is a subsidiary
of the Japanese chemical company Tokuyama Corporation. The ion exchange
membranes used in the ED stacks are manufactured at its Tokuyama
City plant. Eurodia has supplied over 30 ED plants for desalting
or deashing applications in the dairy, sugar, starch, chemical,
pharmaceutical, and wine industries. It has developed its own high
performance stack technology with proprietary gasket designs, allowing
for operation with and without current reversal. In the last few
years, the company has expanded its line of separation technologies
by offering:
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Ion exclusion chromatography with resins and the patented
Improved Simulated Moving Bed (ISMB) process from Mitsubishi/Nippon
Rensui (Japan).
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Microfiltration with ScepterŪ sintered steel membranes from
Graver Technology (Glasgow, DE).
The objective of Ameridia is to offer to customers in the Americas
and other markets this combined expertise in separation technologies
and process engineering. The new facility in Somerset, NJ will feature
office space, including drafting facilities and meeting rooms, as
well as an assembly/ warehousing area to offer refurbishment services
for ED stacks and inventory of spare parts.
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