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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., March 31, 2011 - A Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) mobile water treatment system produced clean drinking water for New Zealand communities damaged by the recent earthquake. The filtration equipment, owned and operated by the New Zealand Military, was deployed as part of its humanitarian efforts to convert drinking water from sea water for residents of Brighton, Lyttleton and Christchurch after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake disrupted the municipal water system. A Pall WTS40 system provided 40,000 liters (10,500 gallons) of water per day for area residents.
 
A Pall WTS40 system provided a total of 40,000 liters (10,500 gallons) of water per day for earthquake relief in New Zealand. The WTS40 system is capable of producing drinking water from almost any raw water source within hours after delivery. Using state-of-the-art hollow fiber and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technologies, the systems desalinate sea water and transform it into water that is free from harmful bacteria, cysts, and particles. Requiring minimal manpower for operation and maintenance, they enable municipalities, military units and ships at sea to boost water production on a permanent or temporary basis.

“The WTS40 systems provided a reliable source of drinking water in Christchurch until the municipal infrastructure was rebuilt. The system has been utilized for emergency relief in other regions, and we are gratified to have helped the New Zealand Defence Force manage the disaster situation in Christchurch,” said Jim Western, president, Pall Aeropower. Pall has previously supplied mobile water treatment systems to the New Zealand military for use on naval vessels. This is their first application of the technology for land use.

The WTS40 system used in New Zealand incorporated Pall AriaTM microfiltration membranes for pre-filtration and Disc TubeTM reverse osmosis membranes for desalination. Designed to NATO defence standard 00-35, the robust system is housed in two 10-ft. ISO containers and is shock and vibration qualified for transportation by land, sea or air.

Pall is currently developing the next generation of high-performance, small footprint, skid-mounted systems based on the successful Pall Aria AT series. The new WTS is capable of making water anywhere at pre-engineered flow rates and is mounted in a container for maximum portability.

In October 2009, two Pall AriaTM mobile water treatment systems were deployed as part of "Operation Padang Assist," the Australian government’s humanitarian response to earthquakes in Indonesia. In June 2010, the city of Calexico, California, engaged four Pall Aria systems to supply up to four million gallons of potable water per day following an earthquake that disrupted the municipal water supply there.

Pall is a leader in permanent and mobile membrane technology solutions for municipal and industrial water and emergency relief applications. The Company provides water treatment systems for large and small municipalities and industrial customers around the world. In addition to serving the $13 billion municipal water market, Pall’s filtration technology is increasingly becoming a critical component in intake and process water for food, beverage, chemical, oil, gas, power and semiconductor production, among others. Pall’s technology helps ensure a greener future by enabling businesses to conserve and reuse water, and to restore wastewater to environmentally safe levels before discharge. For more information, visit www.pall.com/water.

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., November 11, 2010 - Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced the launch of a new system to assist in the research and development of biobased processes that will enable the production of fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks. Pall’s Research and Modeling scale (RAMs) Crossflow Filtration System is designed to help research centers, universities, national labs, and process developers evaluate the use of membranes and create reliable early economic guidance for future scale-up of their applications.

The new Pall system integrates a high level of data collection with a small batch production capability to facilitate large-scale process and economic modeling during early stages of development, prior to field evaluation. It is capable of concentrating fluid streams by more than ten times and enables operators to evaluate inorganic, ceramic, stainless steel, and organic hollow fiber membranes, among others.

The flexibility of the RAMs system makes it ideal for crossflow filtration feasibility studies comparing the effectiveness of different membranes in specific applications, and enables the design of cost-effective “fit-for-purpose” pilot scale systems. This enables the Pall system to facilitate significant cost savings over generic piloting systems, and provide users with essential economic information concerning scale-up much earlier in the development process.

There is a global movement focusing on the process development of biobased fuels and chemicals which can augment the supply of petroleum-derived fuels and chemicals. The use of renewable materials represents a paradigm shift driven by decreasing fossil resources and increasing carbon accumulation in our atmosphere that may be contributing to global warming.

The RAMs system will help developers understand how membranes can be applied to their processes, and can be used to develop early stage guidance for the use of membranes in several applications areas. These include: prefiltration and product purification for biobased chemical production, high biomass solids recycling and perfusion in fermentation processes, algal biomass separation and concentration, and diafiltration. Working with the RAMs system enables the optimal membrane selection for a particular process, and allows quicker development times.

“The Pall RAMs Crossflow Filtration System will help our customers achieve successful processes for producing sustainable fuels and chemicals,” said Greg Heilbrunn, senior vice president, global marketing, Pall Energy. “The system helps technology developers determine how filtration and separations will play a role in their processes prior to expensive pilot testing. Helping facilitate the development of the biofuels industry is part of Pall’s continuing commitment to enabling a greener future.”
To learn more about the RAMs system, please visit www.pall.com/chemical_53239.asp.

About Pall Energy

Pall Energy, a division of Pall Corporation, provides filtration and separation technologies for the alternative and renewable energy industries; petroleum refineries; the oil and gas industry; power production, transmission, and distribution; chemical and petrochemical plants; and polymer producers. The Company's products and services enable customers to reduce the total cost of ownership and increase output while meeting regulatory requirements. Pall's solutions help to ensure product quality and protect consumers while lowering operating costs. They also enable the production of clean, sustainable energy, and water recycling and reuse. For more information, visit www.pall.com/chemical.asp and www.pall.com/power.asp.

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., September 28, 2010 - Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) has received an Outstanding Ground Water Project Award from the National Ground Water Association for outstanding science, engineering, and innovation in the area of remediating groundwater. Pall, a leader in filtration, separation and purification, designed, built and operates one of the world’s largest oxidation treatment systems for the destruction of 1,4-dioxane in groundwater. The system can pump and filter over two million gallons of water a day.

The award will be presented at the 2010 NGWA Ground Water Expo and Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 8, 2010. The award-winning project started in 1997 within months of Pall’s acquisition of Gelman Sciences Inc. (GSI) and continues today.

GSI used 1,4-dioxane from approximately 1966 to 1986 at its Ann Arbor, Michigan, manufacturing facility. 1,4-dioxane, a common industrial chemical, is frequently used as a stabilizer and solvent. It is also found in personal care products such as shampoo, toothpaste and moisturizers. The wastewater disposal practices used by GSI at the time had the necessary regulatory approvals.

1,4-dioxane is difficult to treat because it is highly mobile and miscible in water. In the book Environmental Investigation and Remediation: 1,4-dioxane and Other Solvent Stabilizers, Thomas Mohr writes, “The mobility, persistence, and treatment challenges combine to make 1,4-dioxane a particularly vexing contaminant. It is more mobile than any other contaminant you are likely to find at solvent release sites…”

"Pall Corporation is honored by the NGWA's recognition of our efforts. We are deeply committed to creating a more sustainable future and to providing customers with efficient and cost-effective ways of achieving their environmental protection and process improvement goals. We are especially pleased that the knowledge gained from this project has already become, and will continue to be, a resource for others managing the same contaminant," said Saied Tousi, Pall Corp. senior vice president. Pall was named one of the “greenest companies” in America by Newsweek magazine.

NGWA president Jack Henrich said, “Pall’s remediation project is praiseworthy for its effectiveness in attacking large scale contamination of 1,4-dioxane. The ‘persistence’ of 1,4-dioxane in this case is exceeded only by the ingenuity of the award-winning technology to remediate groundwater and Pall’s demonstrated commitment to this complex issue.”

NGWA, a nonprofit organization comprised of more than 13,000 U.S. and international groundwater professionals, is dedicated to advancing groundwater knowledge. NGWA’s vision is to be the leading groundwater association that advocates the responsible development, management, and use of water.

 

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., September 09, 2010 - Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) announced today that it has won the prestigious Engineering Materials Achievement Award (EMAA) for 2011 for its porous iron aluminide technology. The award, which recognizes outstanding achievements in the field of materials science, is given annually to one company by ASM International, a society dedicated to the development and commercialization of materials that advance production techniques and facilitate innovation. Pall’s porous iron aluminide technology marries the best properties of metal and ceramic to enable more economical production of cleaner fuels.

Pall developed its unique filter medium from intermetallic porous iron aluminide to provide fail-safe filtration in high-temperature applications such as catalytic petroleum refining and next-generation fossil fuel conversion to synthetic natural gas. This advanced filter technology exceeds current and proposed air quality emissions requirements. It enables energy producers to operate reliably while producing traditional and alternative fuels in an environmentally responsible manner.

By providing the unmatched advantages of hot corrosion resistance, strength and reasonable cost, the compound is now considered to be one of the most robust materials for the refinement of biomass and sulfur-containing fossil fuels, such as clean coal and sour crude oil. Porous iron aluminide filters are suitable for long-term service in temperatures as high as 1475° F (802° C).

Pall joins a host of distinguished EMAA recipients, including DuPont for aramid fiber (1978), IBM for magnetic recording media (1984), and AT&T Bell Labs for transoceanic optical fiber systems (1990).

"Receiving the EMAA from ASM Intl. is truly an honor. It underscores Pall's commitment to providing customers with world-class, game-changing filtration materials that make their processes more environmentally-friendly, cost-effective, and efficient," said Eric Krasnoff, Pall's chief executive officer. "We thank and congratulate the Pall team that propelled this product to success. We also recognize the vital contributions of Oak Ridge National Laboratories for their expertise in high-temperature materials and Ametek, Inc. for their experience in powder metals."

The 2011 Engineering Materials Achievement Award will be formally presented to Pall Corporation in October 2011 at the ASM International Materials Science and Technology conference in Columbus, Ohio.

To learn more about Pall solutions for energy production, please visit http://www.pall.com/power.asp, www.pall.com/pdf/GSS.pdf , www.pall.com/pdf/fc_S_Series_PSS_E20c.pdf , and www.pall.com/chemical_35146.asp

About Pall Energy

Pall’s Energy group provides filtration and separation technologies for the oil and gas industry, petroleum refineries, power production, transmission, and distribution, alternative and renewable energy, chemical and petrochemical plants, and polymer producers. The company's products and services enable customers to reduce the total cost of ownership and increase output while meeting regulatory requirements. Pall's solutions help to ensure product quality and protect consumers while lowering operating costs and minimizing waste. They also enable the production of clean, sustainable energy, and water recycling and reuse. For more information, visit www.pall.com.

 

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., June 23, 2010 - Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) today announced that the Company has been contracted by the city of Calexico, California, to deliver four Pall Aria™ mobile water treatment systems supplying a total of up to four million gallons of potable water per day. The Pall systems were implemented following an earthquake that disrupted the city’s water supply.

“Pall is very pleased to provide the city of Calexico with a solution that helps meet its potable water needs during this unfortunate disaster,” said Jeff Seibert, president, Pall Water Processing. “Pall Aria systems in trailers or containers can be deployed immediately in response to emergencies. In the case of Calexico, we mobilized in less than a day and began producing water within hours after arrival.”

“The Pall systems have helped alleviate a very difficult situation,” said Victor Rodriguez, supervisor of Calexico’s water treatment plant. “Our normal production volume was reduced significantly due to the earthquake, and the systems have helped us meet our critical needs until the existing municipal system can be restored to full operation.”

Pall Aria systems require minimal manpower for operation and maintenance. They significantly reduce the use of consumables, such as cleaning chemicals, scale inhibitors, and cartridge filters. The systems housed in trailers or large containers enable municipalities, troop units and ships at sea to boost water production on a permanent or temporary basis.

In October 2009, two Pall Aria mobile water treatment systems were deployed as part of "Operation Padang Assist," the Australian government’s humanitarian response to earthquakes in Indonesia. Two water sources established by the Australian Department of Defence on the beach of Padang used the Pall systems to convert sea water into potable water for up to 75,000 households.

Pall Aria systems are capable of producing drinking water from almost any raw water source within about an hour. Each system comprises complete, automated and integrated microfiltration systems, and in some cases, reverse osmosis systems as well. Using state-of-the-art hollow fiber membrane technology, the systems transform contaminated water into water that is free from harmful bacteria, cysts, and particles.
“The relief efforts following the earthquakes in both Calexico and Padang illustrate the Pall Aria system’s ability to produce clean water virtually anywhere utilizing any feed source,” Mr. Seibert said.

Pall is a leader in membrane technology solutions for municipal development, industrial water applications, and emergency relief. The Company provides water treatment systems for large and small municipalities and industrial customers around the world. In addition to serving the $6 billion municipal water market, Pall’s filtration technology is increasingly becoming a critical step in treating water for a wide range of applications. This includes intake and process water for food, beverage, chemical, oil, gas, power and semiconductor production, among others. Pall’s technology helps to ensure a greener future by enabling businesses to conserve and reuse water, and to restore wastewater to environmentally safe levels before discharge. For more information, visit www.pall.com/water

About Pall Corporation
Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) is a filtration, separation and purification leader providing Total Fluid ManagementSM solutions to meet the critical needs of customers in biopharmaceutical; hospital, transfusion and veterinary medicine; energy and alternative energy; electronics; municipal and industrial water; aerospace; transportation and broad industrial markets. Together with our customers, we foster health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. The company’s engineered solutions enable process and product innovation and minimize emissions and waste. Pall Corporation, with total revenues of $2.3 billion for fiscal 2009, is an S&P 500 company with more than 10,000 employees serving customers worldwide. Pall has been named a top "green company" by Newsweek magazine. To see how Pall is helping enable a greener, safer, more sustainable future, visit www.pall.com/green.

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As the Gulf oil spill continues to wreak havoc on the environment, Pall is playing a small but important role in helping to protect the beaches of Pensacola. Thanks go to the innovative thinking of one of the company’s employees and a well-orchestrated team effort. Pall Pensacola has donated 3000 pounds of polypropylene membrane to the City of Gulf Breeze, Florida, to help the municipality soak up oil that began arriving there last week.

Polypropylene is the most common form of absorbent for lifting oil from water. Its fast-wicking fibers absorb 25 times their weight in petroleum-based liquid, but repel water. Pall Pensacola produces polypropylene for use in water filtration applications as well as in many other Life Sciences and Industrial applications requiring high dirt-holding capacity.

Pall Pensacola employees volunteered to assemble netting “socks” with
polypropylene donated by Pall Corporation to help soak up oil from the Gulf spill.

Pall trims rolls of polypropylene on the production line every day to customer specifications, and as a result, accumulates left over material. Mike Miller, Production Engineering Manager, recognized the opportunity to put the trimmings to good use in the local clean-up effort. Mike Everett, Manager Environmental Health and Safety, arranged to ship the membrane to an assembly site.  Sixteen Pall employees and their families joined the effort to help bag the membrane material into netting “socks” to soak up the oil and help contain environmental damage.

Netting “socks” containing super-absorbent polypropylene donated by Pall

Corporation’s Pensacola manufacturing plant are helping the City of

Gulf Breeze
soak up oil on its beaches.

By repurposing the polypropylene for a "second life" to abate the oil contamination, Pall Pensacola accomplished a doubly significant environmental achievement. This is not only highly compatible with Pall’s commitment to environmental stewardship globally, it is also an excellent demonstration of Pall ingenuity and the positive impact we can all have in our communities. 

The City of Breeze is extremely grateful for Pall’s support.  In an email to Pall Pensacola, Gulf Breeze City Manager Edwin Eddy wrote, “I want to thank Pall Life Sciences for getting involved and helping to create a much needed positive day for our community. We appreciate your staff coming out to pitch in as well.  Your donation of a truckload of oil absorbent cloth is being put to good use in the fight to keep oil off our beaches. On behalf of our Mayor, City Council and all of our Gulf Breeze area residents, thanks for all your support.”

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.--(March 22, 2010)--Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced that it has been contracted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop critical filtration and separation processes for a U.S. Department of Energy advanced biofuels project. The contract establishes Pall as a member of the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC), a federal initiative under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to drive the creation of a domestic biofuels industry, reduce U.S. reliance on fossil fuels and generate jobs.

Pall will develop and demonstrate the science and separation technologies necessary to enable fungible biomass-based fuels to be integrated into the existing hydrocarbon fuels infrastructure. The company will be an engineering partner on each of six processes for biofuel production being evaluated under the program. These processes include fermentation, catalytic conversion, catalytic fast pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, and a low-cost, one-step syngas-to-distillates process.
 
“Pall is honored to have been selected to participate in this important research collaboration,” said Greg Heilbrunn, senior vice president, global marketing, Pall Energy. “Our experience in advanced hot gas and liquid hydro separations for both conventional and alternative energy applications, as well as our global leadership in industrial membrane separations, will enable us to help ensure a marketable outcome of the consortium’s work.”
 
The initiative will deliver at least one pilot-ready process, design reports, and life cycle analysis demonstrating economics and environmental benefit. The $46 million project will be co-led by NREL and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
 
“Collaborating on the ARRA fungible fuels program is consistent with Pall’s global commitment to partnering with our customers for a greener future,” Mr. Heilbrunn added. “It will capitalize on our enabling technologies and expand our renewable energy applications portfolio.”
 
In addition to Pall, other consortium members include: Albemarle Corporation, Amyris Biotechnologies, Argonne National Laboratory, BP Products North America Inc., Catchlight Energy, LLC, Colorado School of Mines, Iowa State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, RTI International, Tesoro companies, Inc., University of California- Davis, UOP LLC, Virent Energy Systems, and Washington State University.
To learn more about the U.S. Department of Energy’s investment in advanced biofuels research, please visit: http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/progress_alerts.cfm/pa_id=286
 
About Pall Energy
Pall’s Energy group provides filtration and separation technologies for the oil and gas industry, petroleum refineries, power production, transmission, and distribution, alternative and renewable energy, chemical and petrochemical plants, and polymer producers. The company's products and services enable customers to reduce the total cost of ownership and increase output while meeting regulatory requirements. Pall's solutions help to ensure product quality and protect consumers while lowering operating costs and minimizing waste. They also enable the production of clean, sustainable energy, and water recycling and reuse. For more information, visit http://www.pall.com/.
 
About Pall Corporation
Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) is a filtration, separation and purification leader providing Total Fluid ManagementSM solutions to meet the critical needs of customers in biopharmaceutical; hospital, transfusion and veterinary medicine; energy and alternative energy; electronics; municipal and industrial water; aerospace; transportation and broad industrial markets. Together with our customers, we foster health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. The Company’s engineered solutions enable process and product innovation and minimize emissions and waste. Pall Corporation, with total revenues of $2.3 billion for fiscal 2009, is an S&P 500 company with more than 10,000 employees servicing customers worldwide. Pall has been named a top "green company" by Newsweek magazine. To see how Pall is helping enable a greener and more sustainable future, visit www.pall.com.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency press release dated: 10/08/2008

Contact Information: Suzanne Ackerman, (202) 564-4355 / ackerman.suzanne@epa.gov

(Washington, D.C. – Oct. 8, 2008) Leading corporations are demonstrating that reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is both good for the environment and their business success. Seven companies were commended today for achieving significant GHG reductions and leaving a smaller carbon footprint through EPA's Climate Leaders program, the largest GHG goal setting program in the United States. In addition, 15 companies will be recognized for announcing new reduction goals, and 31 companies will be welcomed as new partners during the agency's Climate Leaders conference.

"EPA's Climate Leader partners are proving that businesses can save green by going green," said EPA  Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "These leading companies are reducing their climate footprints in cost-effective ways and contributing to this country's energy independence."

Together, the 226 Climate Leaders members represent more than ten percent of the U.S. gross domestic product and have pledged GHG reductions equivalent to the emissions of nine million cars annually.

Seven companies are being recognized today for having achieved their significant GHG reduction goals  over the last four to five years, and four of these companies have also made new commitments to reduce their GHG emissions. The seven goal achievers are: 3M, Pfizer Inc.; Hasbro Inc.; Caterpillar Inc.; FPL Group Inc.; Sun Microsystems Inc.; Mack Trucks Inc.

Launched in 2002, Climate Leaders is an industry-government partnership that has provided guidance and recognition to leading companies to help them develop and implement comprehensive climate change strategies.

Information about Climate Leaders Program: epa.gov/climateleaders/

15 Companies that pledged new GHG emissions reductions goals: ACE Group of Companies; Agilent Technologies; Alcoa; Best Buy Co. Inc.; Citigroup Inc.; DPR Construction Inc.; EarthColor; LSI Corp.; NVIDIA Corp.; Owens Corning; PepsiCo; Quad/Graphics Inc.; Sprint; The Boeing Co.; and Turner Construction Co.

31 New Partners: Autodesk; Best Transportation; California Limousine; Carlisle Construction Materials; Classique Limousines; Company Car and Limousine; ConAgra Foods; Continuum; EmpireCLS; Fetter Printing Co.; Fleet Transportation, LLC; Genworth Financial; Invitrogen Corp.; Lexmark International Inc.; Limited Brands Inc.; Luxury Limousines of Sacramento; News Corp.; Niagara Conservation; Nortel, Research Triangle Park; Novartis Corp.; Pall Corp.; Partners Executive Transportation; Pure Luxury Transportation; Royal Coachman Worldwide; STERIS Corp.; Syngenta; The Sherwin-Williams Co.; University Corp. for Atmospheric Research; UPS Inc.; Virgin America; Yahoo! Inc.