Pall Corporation

Pall Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets filtration, purification, and separation products and integrated systems solutions worldwide. It operates in five segments: Medical, BioPharmaceuticals, General Industrial, Aerospace, and Microelectronics. The Medical segment sells disposable blood filtration and cardiovascular filtration products primarily to blood centers and hospitals. This segment also offers products used in research laboratories in drug discovery, gene manipulation, and proteomics applications. The BioPharmaceuticals segment provides separation systems and disposable filters primarily to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for use in the development and commercialization of synthetically and organically derived drugs and vaccines. It offers filtration solutions for each critical stage of drug development through drug production. The General Industrial segment sells filters, coalescers, and separation systems for hydraulic, fuel, and lubrication systems on mechanical equipment, as well as to producers of oil, gas, electricity, chemicals, food and beverages, municipal and industrial water, and paper. The Aerospace segment provides filtration and fluid monitoring equipment to the aerospace industry for use in commercial and military aircraft, including hydraulic, lubrication, and fuel filters; coalescers to remove water from fuel; filters to remove viruses from aircraft cabin air and filter monitoring systems. This segment’s products and systems are also used in ships and land-based military vehicles. The Microelectronics segment sells disposable filtration products to the semiconductor, data storage, fiber optic, display, and materials markets. This segment provides a suite of contamination control solutions for chemical, gas, water, chemical mechanical polishing, and photolithography processes for microelectronics industry. Pall Corporation was incorporated in 1946 and is headquartered in East Hills, New York.