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AFS Infrastructure, Sustainability Testing Management Conference
The American Filtration Separations Society is providing a 2 Track Program with
its fall Conference September 22-25th in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event
will be preceded with its traditional filtration full day short courses on September
22nd. The main conference will consist of two separate tracks. Track I is titled
Filter Testing; Evaluation, Procedures and Validation chaired by Dr. Ernest Mayer
of DuPont. Track II is chaired by Edward C. Gregor of Edward C. Gregor Associates,
LLC and titled Infrastructure Sustainability; Filtration Growth Market. The sub-title
of the Track is Underscoring Most Critical Un-Met Needs in Filtration and Separations.
The Infrastructure and Sustainability Track is targeted specifically at managers
seeking new and emerging opportunities in filtration or separations to reinvigorate
their business and understand the next generation of growth opportunities.
The Filter Testing Track will feature the process of evaluation, procedures
and validation of filtration media, filters and filtration systems and cover
a breadth
of subjects from diatomaceous earth to complex filtration systems and seemingly
every technology and process in-between. Features sessions include the following:
Filter Media Testing and Development; Characterization of Filter Media; Filter
Aid Coalescer Developments; Cartridge, Strainer, Bag Filter Testing; Filter
Cleaning/Testing Procedures; General Filtration Application Testing I/II; What
to Look for in
Filtration Testing.
Attendees to the Filter Testing track will consist of individuals from several
organizational disciplines including product development, quality, plant engineering,
media equipment suppliers, consultants and others.
The AFS is taking a different tack and invited organizations and individuals
having a broad overview and perspective to address the most compelling filtration
and/or separation un-met needs in their area of expertise. The industry has
never offered a forum of this nature. The goal is to jump-start innovation
and creative
thinking where it has lagged in recent years and accelerate development where
it is on-going. There are many un-met needs in the filtration and separations
industry, most affecting America and the world’s infrastructure in one
way or another. The challenge is huge and the solutions costly, yet with success,
the payoff is enormous. The conference is designed specifically for managers
who are broad thinkers or innovators and want a peek under the tent of where
the industry needs new solutions. Features sessions include the following: Water
Reuse: Preserving Precious Resources; Military Filtration: Understanding Defense
Needs; Reusable and Extended Life Filters: Eliminating Waste; Challenges in Transportation;
Homeland and International Security Issues; Water: Life’s Liquid; Power
Generation: Challenges and Opportunities; Securing National Health and the
Environment.
Attendees to the Infrastructure and Sustainability Track will consist of
filtration and separation R managers, product development engineers, marketing,
corporate
business managers, investment backers and others who have a vested interest
in where the industry is headed. The common thread being the need to understand
un-met critical filtration and separation application needs to make informed
decisions where to invest future corporate funds in 2009 and beyond.
The Conference sill conclude with a half-day workshop titled Water and Air
Infrastructure Needs and the Role of Filtration in the Interdependency
Market. This important
Application Workshop is a must for organizations and individuals to tie
together the un-met needs with the opportunities in order to structure a strategy
and action plan for new product development and company growth. The workshop
will
be lead by Anita Highsmith of Highsmith Environmental Consultants, former
Head of the Water Quality Activities for the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
The workshop will address all topics and aspects of the Infrastructure
and
Sustainability Conference.
Conference sponsorships and a limited number of tabletop displays are available.
This conference will definitely be a sell-out, so register early and
especially make your hotel reservations now, as rooms are limited.
For information on the conference go to: www.afssociety.org/fall2008.
The AFS conferences and events bring together the industry leaders, presenting
the greatest opportunity to meet and hear the newest information
in filtration and separation technology.
Over the past two years over 300 organizations have sent representatives
to AFS events.
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