Larox Corporation

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Supplier of Value-Added Solid/Liquid Separation Solutions for Food, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology

Larox Group is unrivalled in its range of filtration options for the food, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

This dynamic group of companies delivers filtration solutions and services to the world's process industries, and is a leader in the field with more than 50 percent market share in selected markets.

Larox now operates in 40 countries and has over 430 employees. The Group brings together the capabilities and resources of Larox automatic pressure filters, Scheibler polishing filters, Pannevis horizontal vacuum belt filters and Hoesch membrane filters. These technologies enable Larox to offer a full range of filter options for many food, pharmaceutical and biotechnology applications.

Larox is dedicated to serving these industries by developing high-performance, reliable separation solutions, which expand production capacities, simplify processes, reduce energy and manpower requirements and improve product quality and recovery.

The new grouping brings together over 100 years combined experience in supplying cost effective and reliable solid/liquid separation solutions. Proven applications include antibiotics, enzymes, fermentation broths, intermediate and final product pharmaceuticals and vitamins, including B2, B12, C and E. Currently there are over 100 installations worldwide.

Understanding the customer’s needs is an important part of product development for Larox. Partnering with customers from initial development through to full-scale manufacturing while helping to reduce costs and uncertainty while increasing yields and confidence) has led to the development of the Larox C 3.2 series pressure filter, the Pannevis RT-GT gas tight filter and the Larox DS pressure filter.

Contact details:

Larox Corporation
P.O. Box 29
53101 Lappeenranta
Finland

Tel: +358 207 687 200
Fax: +358 207 687 277

Website: www.larox.com/cpi

Membrane Filter Press

• Larox offers the superior solution for thick mud (carbonization mud) juice filtration in the sugar industry with the Hoesch Membrane filter press »
  Hoesch Membrane Filter Presses from Larox are the industry leader for thick mud (carbonation mud) dewatering (de-sweetening) offering a proprietary plate design that completely eliminates plate failure and maximizes production capacity.
  
  

Filter Orders

• Larox Announces New Filter Orders Worth Over 6 Million Euros »
  Larox was awarded in July quarter by new orders worth of 6.7 million euros to supply 15 filters to chemical and mining companies in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, U.S.A, Germany, Denmark, Kazakhstan and China.
  
  

Soda Ash Waste Treatment

• Larox C Series Pressure Filters gain wide acceptance for processing of soda ash waste »
  Larox C Series Automatic Pressure Filters are gaining wide acceptance in the soda ash industry as the state of the art solution for the handling of waste streams that otherwise are becoming major disposal problems.
  
  

On-line Filter Creator System

• On-line Filter Creator System »
  Larox has recently introduced a totally new marketing and distribution vehicle, my Larox, together with the exclusive “my FilterCreatorTM” on-line sizing and specification tool.
  
  

Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filters

• The new standardized range of Pannevis RT Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filters from Larox offer improved levels of reliability and availability. »
  Larox now has a completely redesigned range of standardized Pannevis RT Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filters ranging from 1.6 m2 up to 63 m2.
  
  
• Larox introduce “Wave-DriTM” Microwave Drying on Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filters »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  Larox will introduce “Wave-Dri” microwave drying on the complete range of Pannevis RT Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filters, at the ACHEMA 2006 trade show in Frankfurt, Germany from May 15 – 19, 2006.
  
  

Larox Company News

• Reliable Global Service »
  Today’s industrial enterprises require reliable, global maintenance and spare parts services. The service concept developed by Larox has proved to be an optimized, cost-effective and high-quality approach that meets all clients’ needs.
  
  
• Larox introduce a new range of Pannevis RT Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filters »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  Larox will introduce a completely redesigned range of standardised Pannevis RT Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filters, at the ACHEMA 2006 trade show in Frankfurt, Germany from May 15 – 19, 2006. This new range of Pannevis RT belt filters will provide many advantages to the customer compared to the current RT range.
  
  
• Larox Received Major Orders from India and Mexico »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  Larox, world-leading filter supplier to the chemicals processing and mining industries, has recently received a number of significant orders from India and Mexico.
  
  
• Larox Corporation - Supplier of Value-Added Solid/Liquid Separation Solutions for Food, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  Larox Corporation is a world-leading supplier of value added solid/liquid separation process solutions. The 2004 acquisition of the Outokumpu Technology filter business further consolidates Larox's position as one of the leading filtration solution suppliers for the food, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
  
  
• Pannevis GT filter from Larox is ideally suited for processing biotech products, pharmaceuticals and intermediates »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  LAPPEENRANTA, FINLAND - June 9, 2005 - The Pannevis GT gas tight filter from Larox is a completely enclosed solid-liquid separation system that can continuously or semi-continuously process virtually any solvent based product inside a sealed housing with a continuously re-circulated nitrogen blanket.
  
  
• Larox Introduce New Marketing and Distribution Vehicle Together with On-Line Sizing and Specification Tool at the 2006 ACHEMA »
  Larox will introduce a new marketing and distribution vehicle, my Larox, together with the exclusive “my FilterCreator™” on-line sizing and specification tool at the 2006 ACHEMA
  
  

Pressure Filters

• Larox DS Series Automatic Pressure Filter is totally enclosed and hygienic »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  The Larox DS Series filter is a totally enclosed design of vertical automatic pressure filter that utilizes a unique polypropylene plate design to enable filtration of difficult materials in a contained cleanable environment.
  
  
• Larox Received Major New Orders Worth Over 10 Million Euros »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  Larox has received in June four major new orders to supply filters to mining and chemical companies in South Africa, Zambia, India and China.
  
  

Polishing Filters

• Scheibler polishing filters from Larox offer a totally unique way of producing ultra clean filtrates »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  LAPPEENRANTA, FINLAND - September 20, 2005 - A totally unique adsorption process from Larox produces the clearest possible filtrates at the absolute minimum cost as there are no moving parts to the filter and the operation is totally automatic.
  
  

Filtration

• Larox Wins Filter Contracts Worth Over €10 Million »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  Larox has secured three new significant contracts worth more than a combined €10 million to supply filters to mining and chemical companies in India, South Africa and Chile.
  
  

Filter Control Systems

• Similar Larox Automation System for the whole Larox Product Family »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  The Larox filters control systems have been harmonized uniform for the whole Larox product family. If an operator knows how to operate one filter type, he can also operate all other Larox filter types (Hoesch, Pannevis, Scheibler, Ceramec and Larox PF).
  
  

Filter Presses

• Larox will Introduce an All-New Range of Hoesch Filter Presses to meet the New Eurocode 3 at ACHEMA 2006 »
  
  Trevor Sparks
  Larox will introduce its completely redesigned range of Hoesch Chamber and Membrane Filter Presses that will fully conform to the new Eurocode 3, at the ACHEMA 2006 trade show in Frankfurt, Germany from May 15 – 19, 2006.
  
  

Solid Liquid Separation Solutions

• New Solid Liquid Separation Solutions to be Unveiled at Achema 2006 »
  Larox Corporation will introduce a number of new and redesigned solid-liquid separation solutions at Achema 2006.
  
  
• Solid-Liquid Separation and Processing Solutions »
  Larox continues to be a Primary Supplier of Solid-Liquid Separation and Processing Solutions to the Zeolite and Fluid Cracking Catalyst Market
  
  

Ultra-Clean Polishing Filter

• The Scheibler Polishing Filter from Larox Offers Superior Performance To Produce Ultra-Clean Filtrate with No Moving Parts »
  Larox offers the Scheibler Polishing Filter, a totally unique concept, offering almost 100% solids recovery with no moving parts. A new 4 page leaflet details the process steps and filter sizes available.
  
  

Adsorption Polishing Filters

• Scheibler Polishing Filters From Larox Use Adsorption To Produce Extremely Clean Filtrates »
  Scheibler Filters utilize the phenomenon of adsorption filtration to remove micronic and submicronic particles from liquid streams at minimal cost with minimal maintenance and fully automatic operation. Larger units are also expandable.
  
  

Automatic Pressure Filter

• Automatic Pressure Filter »
  Larox DS Series Automatic Pressure Filter proves its worth for fine particle size products where cake washing combined with the driest possible cake are required
  
  

Modified Starch Processing

• Larox “C” Series Pressure Filters Provides Superior Processing of Modified Starches »
  A new 6 page brochure from Larox summarizes a paper given to the China Starch Association by Dr. Jin Shuren on the reasons and benefits in using a Larox “C” Series Pressure Filter over conventional centrifugation for the production of modified Starches
  
  

Vacuum Belt Filters

• Larox Delivers The Largest Gas Tight Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filter Ever Built »
  Larox recently delivered the largest, totally gas tight horizontal belt filter ever built.
  
  
• Larox Upgrades The Patented Pannevis RB-CDV Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filter »
  Larox upgrades the patented Pannevis RB-CDV horizontal vacuum belt filter for heavy duty mining, mineral and metallurgy applications – meet the Pannevis RB-SV filter from Larox.
  
  

Biofuels Development

• Larox Forms Technical Development Team »
  Larox is pleased to announce the formation of a business and technical development team to optimize the use of the Larox range of solid-liquid separation solutions in the growing field of Biofuels.
  
  

Filter Presses

• New Range of Hoesch Filter Presses from Larox »
  A comprehensive redesign program has resulted in a new modular range of Hoesch filter presses available with improved quality and operation and shorter delivery times.
  
  

Filtration

• Magnesium Hydroxide Recovery »
  Larox Filters Provides the Optimal Solution for the Recovery of Magnesium Hydroxide from Naturally Occurring Brine Solutions.
  
  

Vacuum Belt Filters

• The Pannevis RT Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filters »
  Larox is proud to announce that this year the Pannevis RT Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filter celebrates its 40th anniversary with the first unit ordered in 1967. Also this year we will also celebrate the delivery of the 1500th Pannevis RT filter.