Will ultrafiltration market go horizontal or vertical?
- From: Vol 7, Issue 10 (October 2006)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
- Country: United States
- Related Companies: Dow Chemicals, General Electric (GE), Memcor, Siemens and Zenon Environmental
Dow is betting that it won’t need to build plants to sell UF membranes. GE and Siemens are not so sure.
The move into the UF market is not just a challenge to the current market leaders, GE and Siemens. It is also a challenge to the current business model. The UF market, particularly in the US, is vertically integrated: both GE (through Zenon) and Siemens (through Memcor) build plants and supply membranes.
The RO market is horizontally integrated: those companies ...
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