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The full 144-page study, Membrane Separation Technologies (no. 604), is available for 82700 from the publishers.

Further Informatlon from: The Freedonla Group, Inc, 3570 WarrensvlUe Center Road, Suite 201, Cleveland, OH 44122-5226, USA. Tel: +1 216 921 6800. Fax: +1 216 921 5459.

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C o n t r a c t to s u p p l y s o d i u m h y p o c h l o r i t e in Aus tra l i a a w a r d e d Ionics has announced that its Australian subsldlary, Elite Chemicals Pty Ltd, had received a US$5.0 million contract from the city of Brisbane to supply sodium hypochlorlte over a five-year period for t reatment of the city's drinking water.

Brisbane, the third largest metropolitan area in Australia, had previously used chlorine gas for its t reatment needs but decided to use sodium hypochlorite instead because of safety and environmental considerations.

The sodium hypochlorlte solution will be produced utflizlng available capaci ty at Elite Chemicals ' existing production facility in Brisbane. The facility employs Ionics' proprietary Chioromat system to manufac ture sodium hypochlorlte directly from water and salt.

Further Informatlon from: lonlcs, Inc, PO Box 9131, Watertown, MA 02272-9131, USA. Tel: +I 617 926 2500.

US Fi l t er a c q u i r e s c e r a m i c f i l ter p r o d u c t l ine f rom Mil l ipore US Filter Corp and MilIlpore Corp have Jointly announced the sale of the Ceral]o ceramic filter product line by Milllpore to US Filter. US Filter will a s sume responsibility for sales, service and engineering support for all current and future Ceraflo filter customers. US Filter will also acquire the backlog of orders, production, equipment and certain inventory. Ceraflo product line sales have been in the several million dollar range per year.

Further Informatlon from: Molly Tschang, US Filter Carp, 4669 Shepherd Trag, PO Box 560, Rockford, IL 61105-0560, USA. Tel. +1 815 877 3041. Fax: +I 815 877 0172.

G e n e r o n S y s t e m s o p e n s A s i a n o f f i c e Generon Systems, which is owned by the Dow Chemical Company, is opening its Asian sales office in Hong Kong. The new office will be housed In Dow's Pacific headquar ters and will be open for business on I September 1994.

Further Informatlon from: Generon Sys tems, 400 West Sam Houston Parkway South, Houston, TX 77042, USA. Tel: +1 713 978 3100. Fax.. +1 713 978 3185. Or: Generon Sys t ems c / o Dow Chemical Pac~[Ic Ltd, 4 7 / F Sun Hung Kal Centre, 30 Harbour Road, Wunchal, Hong Kong. Tel: +852 879 7333. Fax: +852 627 5909.

S e p a r a t i n g b i o m o l e c u l e s o u t o f s o l u t i o n A quicker and more effective technique for separating proteins and other biomolecules out of solution h a s been reported by a group from the University of Tokyo and The Takasaki Radiation Chemistry Research Establishment, which is affiliated with the J a p a n Atomic Energy Research Institute, says a report in the Nikkel Weekly, 8 August 1994.

The group has found that by fixing elec1~rically charged polymer chains to the pores in a hollow fibre membrane, large volumes of proteins or biomolecules can be separated out of solution.

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