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It's no secret that water is essential to our lives.  Aside from the daily essentials like drinking or washing, water plays a role in many different industrial processes, whether it be as a solvent, a coolant, a medium for suspension, or in irrigation.  Water even finds its way into art with public fountains, water color paints, and ceramic pottery.  With so many uses for water, is it any wonder that so many places in the world are starved for it? The problem of increasing water scarcity led Jaffer Alali (pictured on the right) to develop the EcoMembrane as a potential solution and enter it into the University of Washington's (UW) Environmental Innovation Challenge.  Hailing from Saudi Arabia, Jaffer knows a thing or two about the difficulty of providing water to an arid region.  Before he began the EcoMembrane project at the UW, he spent over 10 years working in seawater treatment at Saudi Aramco and studied environmental engineering at the University of Alabama. The EcoMembrane

Beginning on June 1, 2013, Sterlitech will no longer be offering 3M Sterilization Indicators as part of our online store. We can custom order them if you need them, but we will not be replacing them with any equivalent products at this time. We will also continue to offer other sterilization equipment such as  autoclaves.  You can learn more about 3M sterilization indicators here.

Sterlitech will be attending the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Denver! We'll be hanging out at booth #810 with examples and information about our latest and greatest products.

American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2013
ASM 2013 in Denver, CO, May 18-21, Booth #810

If you'll be there too, don't forget to stop by and say hello. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to discuss your filtration needs and get your questions answered from the experts!

The name Lockheed Martin invokes images of high tech aircraft, secret weapons, and other technologies that seem a whole lot more exciting than a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane.  However, Perforene™, Lockheed Martin’s latest innovation, promises to be an exciting new development for RO desalination. It’s made from graphene, an allotrope of carbon where the atoms arranged in hexagonal cells to make a sheet that is only one atom thick.  The next thinnest RO membrane is about 500 times thicker than Perforene™.  It is the almost impossible thinness of the membrane that makes it so exciting for RO; it takes about 100 times less energy to push water through the membrane when compared to the average RO membrane available commercially today. The Perforene™ membrane was developed by placing holes that are one nanometer or less in diameter into the membrane.  These holes are small enough to trap the ions while dramatically improving the flow-through of water molecules, reducing clogging and

Starting today, Sterlitech’s selection of Hollow Fiber Filter Cartridges will no longer be available on our website. These filter cartridges from Watersep were ideal for cell culture clarification, cell harvesting, and for concentrating antibodies and enzymes. Unfortunately, we currently do not carry an equivalent product that can serve as a direct replacement for these hollow fiber filter cartridges. However, if you need them, you can contact us, and we can put in a special order for you. Think of them as part of our “Secret Menu.” Next month, you will be able to order a complete bench scale system “animal style.” To learn more about hollow fiber membrane filter cartridges, you can visit Watersep’s website here.  

Sterlitech's Trade Show Tour continues at Pittcon! Pittcon 2013 in Philadelphia PA, March 17-21, Booth #153

In order to improve the user experience on our website, we've revamped our search function to use Google's search engine. Our search function will now deliver the most relevant results to you with lightning fast speed. Visit our site and give it spin. You may just find the exact solution for your application.