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Recent and Archived News and Press Releases

February 1, 2012 K-Patents has announced the appointment of Ville Voipio, D.Sc. (Tech) as the new Managing Director of K-Patents Oy starting February 1, 2012. Dr. Voipio will also continue in his current position as the Managing Director of Janesko Oy. Arto Hämäläinen, M.Sc. (Tech) who has served as Managing Director of K-Patents Oy for the past six years, will remain with the company and has been appointed as the new Technical Director.
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December 9, 2011 The latest ISJ December issue features an article by Dr. Lajos Rozsa about on-line monitoring and control of supersaturation and other massecuite parameters in sugar vacuum pans. The article reviews on common practice to control crystallization in vacuum pans and presents new solutions and devices for the on-line monitoring of supersaturation based on the data which are needed for its exact calculation.
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November 25, 2011 K-Patents introduces a new device, the Field Communicator FC-11 that can be used for controlling K-Patents process instruments remotely. Communicator allows you to access measurement data, diagnostic functions, and trend views via Ethernet connection and it is a perfect solution when you need to configure, update or verify your refractometer in the field environment.
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October 17, 2011 An article about "Optimization of wash water usage in brown stock washing" was published in the TAPPI Journal in September, 2011. The article discusses about the use of refractometer measurements and advanced process data analysis tools to determine optimum level of wash water usage.
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October 13, 2011 Peer Reviewed article "Optimisation of pressure filter performance using refractometer measurements - Mill investigations" was published in the Appita Magazine Vol.64 No1. Real-time displacement ratio values where calculated using refractometer data and the washer performance was optimised. The results show that changes in the concentration of incoming flows to the washer can be detected on-line with real-time refractometer measurements.
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June 30, 2011 A major sugar producer in Poland and a local engineering company have installed K-Patents Process Refractometers to all of their sugar mills. They started using the first K-Patents units in 2002 in few mills and due to their excellent performance they have placed several orders with K-Patents over the years.
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June 30, 2011 K-Patents will introduce a third Generation Semicon Refractometer PR-33-S at the Semicon West show. The PR-33-S refractometer monitors and measures the liquid chemical concentrations throughout the whole semiconductor fabrication process, i.e. from chemical supplies down to fab in-line and tool in-situ chemical quality control.
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June 28, 2011 A manufacturer of diisocyanate-based products had found that Refractive Index was an ideal method to monitor the rate of reaction in hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) reactor. They were looking for a refractometer, which could provide higher accuracy and repeatability.
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June 27, 2011 The purpose of an ammonia water treatment plant is to take the ammonia, NH4, which is present in water as an impurity, out of the water. An ammonia water treatment plant in Italy, which is a customer of K-Patents, gets its water from underground and its ammonia level is about 400 ppm. The plant uses caustic (30%), active carbon and iron chloride, FeCI3, for treating the water.
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June 27, 2011 A breakfast cereal plant in Lancacshire, England, manufactures a high quality range of ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. The cereals are manufactured with conventional and extrusion processing. The company produces the following cereals: Corn Flakes, Bran Flakes, Wheat Flakes, Coated Flakes, Fruit & Fibre, Shredded Bran Sticks and Squares.
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June 23, 2011 The customer's company's quality assurance principles, standards and technology help maintain their reputation as one of the most trusted brands worldwide. K-Patents has numerous installations at the customers tomato plants worldwide. There are several reasons why the tomato paste producer has chosen K-Patents Sanitary Refractometers for their plants.
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June 16, 2011 Here, we will introduce two food applications that have foreseeable growth potential due to functionality and convenience being the key trends in food and drinks, which provide consumer benefits, saving both time and effort. These benefits also include health, freshness, taste, versatility and ethical benefits, and are often referred to as products that suit particular needs.
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June 15, 2011 The automotive urea AdBlue, also known by the generic name Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF), is the registered trademark for AUS32 (Aqueous Urea Solution 32.5%). The market of this urea-based, diesel fuel emissions lowering agent has not matured and AdBlue suppliers can expect a year-on-year growth of 40-50% in the coming years.
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April 26, 2011 Imperial Sugar Company (ISC) has consistently welcomed advances in production technologies designed to maximize efficiency and quality. In December of 2010, ISC Savannah Sugar Refinery in Port Wethworth, GA integrated yet another leading production technology into their sugar boiling process: the K-Patents Process Refractometer.
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January 4, 2011 A new sales opportunity, along with the improved repeatability of K-Patents PR-23 Refractometer, can be found in the in-line safety monitoring of Total Organic Carbon (TOC), e.g. alcohols, proteins, sugars, fats, etc. in various wastewater streams in the corn sweetener and beer brewing industries.
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December 13, 2010 Seasonal flu vaccines production using ultracentrifugation for viral particle separation can be considerably improved by using K-Patents Refractometer. The fractionation of viral rich material can be controlled using K-Patents Pharma refractometer. The different fractions with viral rich and disposable material are separated based on their sucrose density gradients.
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November 22, 2010 Report of experts’ seminar reveals significant energy cost savings for pulp mills with advanced brownstock washing optimatization. Esko Kamrat and Keijo Pyörälä from K-Patents hosted the seminar at Hilton Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in October. Andritz, Kemira, Stora Enso and Metsä-Botnia pulp mills as well as Aalto University and Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences sent their representatives to share their expertise with the audience.
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June 11, 2010 White Paper about the usability of the refractometer to measure washing loss in chemical pulping under mill conditions. The focus of investigation was on brown stock washing before and after oxygen delignification at a Finnish kraft pulp mill.
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October 27, 2009 Techical note 1.00.06, K-Patents Refractometer Accuracy Statement is now available in our Document Downloads.

October 15, 2009 The new K-Patents SAFE-DRIVE™ Operation Guide Video is available in six different languages.

August 27, 2009 Meet us at Drinktec 2009 in Munich on September 14-19!
Our stand is No. 521 in Hall A3.

June 23rd, 2009 Our Semicon Process Refractometer PR-33-S chosen as a Best of the West 2009 Finalist. The Best of the West Award is a recognition given at the Semicon West Fair to an exhibitor that displays important product and technology developments in the microelectronics industries. The K-Patents Semicon Process Refractometer PR-33-S is chosen as one of the five finalists for this nomination.
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June 8th, 2009 New investigations in brownstock washing: K-Patents is a partner company in an ongoing research study that seeks ways to improve brownstock washing in the chemical pulping. The aim is to find a new, more holistic mill level solution that minimizes washing loss and consumes less bleaching chemicals.
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February 6th, 2009 K-Patents introduces ATEX and IECEx approved Intrinsically Safe Process Refractometer PR-23-IA/IE systems that can be used in hazardous locations in Zone 0 and Zone 1 areas, where a possibility of fire or explosion exists.
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February 6th, 2009 K-Patents provides instant feedback in the control of the amine concentrations and can therefore assist in improving natural gas amine treating(acid gas sweetening) operations.
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August 1, 2008 Key Aspects of Monitoring Acid Strength in the Petroleum Refinery Alkylation Process. Owing to high gasoline prices and reformulated gasoline regulations, the refineries invest in additional alkylation capacity. There is a construction boom in new alkylation units and in smaller retrofit projects, such as in replacing radioactive nuclear and coriolis meters with K-Patents Process Refractometers.
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June 10, 2008 Introducing the Semicon Refractometer PR-33-S on July 15-17 at SEMICON West in San Francisco, USA. Meet us at South Hall at Booth #3025!
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March 14, 2008 On March 18-20, K-Patents will be exhibiting at Hall W5, Booth #5715-5717 at
Semicon China in Shanghai.

January 1, 2008 K-Patents Headquarters in Vantaa, Finland, offer an outstanding opportunity for an enthusiastic talent as a Technical Sales Engineer (Process Instruments) to serve the daily technical, product and application support needs of our customers in various industries.
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December 14, 2007 The phone and fax numbers for K-Patents Headquarters at Vantaa, Finland, have changed due to phone system upgrade.
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September 27, 2007 K-Patents at ISA EXPO 2007 in Houston, TX, at booth #2536.
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July 9, 2007 K-Patents Semicon Process Refractometer PR-23-MS has been selected a winner of the 2007 Editor's Choice Best Product Award by the Semiconductor International.
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June 15, 2007 K-Patents introduces the revolutionary new Semicon Process Refractometer PR-23-MS at Semicon West 2007. This in-line instrument is suitable for real-time chemical concentration monitoring throughout the whole semiconductor fabrication process.
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May 31, 2007 K-Patents will present the latest innovations in in-line concentration measurement technology at stand 3h17 at the PulPaper 2007 exhibition at the Helsinki Fair Center in June 5-7th, 2007.
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Feb 26, 2007: K-Patents introduces a new K-Patents SAFE-DRIVE™ Process Refractometer PR-23-SD, which is a complete heavy-duty system for measuring black liquor dry solids % by weight in kraft chemical pulp mills.
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Feb 22, 2007: K-Patents K-Patents new Teflon Body Refractometer PR-23-M measures the concentrations of process liquids such as etchants, photo resists, developers, strippers and cleaning agents in semiconductor fabs.
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Corporate Background Material

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Media Contacts

Marja Kivenheimo, Marketing Manager [marja.kivenheimo(at)kpatents.com]

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