corporation industry diversified machinery founded 1946 new york city headquarters port washington new york key people rainer blair president & ceo 1 martin a. smith chief technology officer 2 yves baratelli president pall life sciences 3 ruby r. chandy president pall industrial 4 michael egholm ph.d. president biopharmaceuticals 5 vince northfield president pall aerospace 6 naresh narasimhan president pall asia 7 roya behnia senior vice president general counsel & corporate secretary 8 kenneth v. camarco senior vice president global supply chain and business systems 9 hanjoon alex kim sr. vice president corporate strategy 5 angelina rouse chief accounting officer 5 revenue us 2.74 billion fy 2011 10 net income us 315.5 million fy 2011 10 number of employees 10 900 fy 2011 10 website www.pall.com pall corporation headquartered in port washington new york is a global supplier of filtration separations and purification products . 11 total revenues for fiscal year 2014 were 2.8 billion with 103 million spent on r & d. 12 pall corporation s business is split into two broad groups life sciences c. 51 % and industrial c. 49 % . 10 these business groups provide fluid management products and systems to customers in biotechnology pharmaceutical transfusion medicine energy electronics municipal and industrial water purification aerospace transportation and broad industrial markets . the company was founded by david b. pall in 1946 as micro metallic corporation . 13 contents 1 history 2 details 3 achievements 4 references 5 external links history edit founded in 1946 as micro metallic corporation . 14 in 1953 pall purchased an industrial building at 30 sea cliff ave glen cove ny occupied until 1999 . in 1958 pall corporation constructed a building at 36 sea cliff ave occupied it until 1971 when pall corporation sold the building to august thomsen . 15 the company was renamed pall corp in 1957 . in 1958 pall began to develop filters for use in aircraft hydraulics applied to the landing gears of american airlines boeing 707s . then pall developed filters to purify jet fuel . 16 through the 1960s the business expanded with sales of 6.7 million in 1960 . pall europe limited formed in 1966 . pall cortland was established in 1961 purchased from trinity equipment company . 14 in the 1970s pall became a leader in fine filtration . sales reach 88 million in 1978 . major contribution in medical applications . pall played a major role in the cleanup of the 1979 three mile island nuclear accident . 17 the company continued to grow in the 80 s and 90 s adding applications and products . in the mid 80 s pall contributed to the construction of the eurotunnel under the english channel providing solutions to hydraulic operations needed to bore through the channel bedrock . in 1988 they began selling a filter for blood transfusions that reduced leukocyte levels below all other existing filters . centrisep air cleaners were integrated into u.s. army and royal air force uk helicopters to reduce sand and dust out of engines during operation desert storm in 1991 . 17 in 1997 the company acquired gelman sciences and in 1998 pall acquired german company rochem . 16 in response to an article in forbes magazine about dioxane in michigan farsad fotouhi vp of life sciences division responded pall is in full compliance with the consent judgment it entered with the michigan department of environmental quality mdeq which serves as the legal framework for the cleanup . 18 19 later in 2013 scio township supervisor clark said he s heard from fotouhi that there will be a staff of about 20 people that will remain on the site . 20 21 details edit today the company is divided into two separate integrated businesses pall life sciences and pall industries . the scientific & lab services employed 175 people worldwide at 29 locations in 2011 . the r & d group has 12 sites with seven in the united states . the main industrial technical center is at cortland ny . 14 pall has plants in new port richey deland florida cortland new york timonium maryland fajardo puerto rico and locations around the world . in 2013 it announced plans to close its plants in ann arbor and fort myers florida . 22 achievements edit 1990 dr. pall is awarded the national medal of technology for patenting and commercializing over 100 filtration and other fluid clarification products beneficial to society and for building pall corporation into a global company . 23 2008 dr. pall is posthumously inducted into the national inventors hall of fame for his invention of the leukoreduction filter . 24 2009 pall corporation is named one of the greenest companies in america in newsweek s september 28 issue . the company was ranked second in the industrial goods sector and 47th among america s largest companies . 25 26 2011 pall corporation is awarded the engineering materials achievement award emaa by asm international . the company was recognized for its porous iron aluminide technology . 27 2011 pall corporation is named a top green company in newsweek s third annual green rankings . the company was ranked fifth in the capital goods sector and 69th among the u.s. 500 list . 28 references edit form 8 k . sec filing . retrieved 31 august 2015 . form 8 k for pall corp . yahoo finance . retrieved 22 december 2014 . pall corporation form 10 k . united states securities and exchange commission . 2010 . retrieved 8 march 2011 . pall corp. names industrial unit president . retrieved 10 may 2012 . a b c pall corp pll new york . business week . retrieved 22 december 2014 . form 8 k . pall corporation news . retrieved 22 january 2015 . sec form 4 . sec . retrieved 22 december 2014 . pall corporation names roya behnia general counsel and corporate secretary . marketwatch . retrieved 27 july 2012 . ken camarco joins pall to lead global supply chain and business systems organizations . retrieved 12 january 2012 . a b c d pall corporation form 10 k . united states securities and exchange commission . 2011 . retrieved 30 september 2011 . pall corp. at robert w. baird industrial conference transcript . thomson reuters . 2010 09 20 . retrieved 20 june 2011 . 2014 form 10 k . sec . 31 july 2014 . retrieved 31 august 2015 . bayot jennifer 2004 09 26 . david b. pall 90 ; invented filters for blood . the new york times . retrieved 29 april 2011 . a b c pall overview industrial biotechnology pdf . retrieved 8 apr 2014 . pall corporation record of decision nydec pdf . retrieved 9 apr 2014 . a b pall corporation history . fundinguniverse.com . retrieved 8 apr 2014 . a b exploring new horizons 1980 1989 pdf . pall.com . retrieved 8 apr 2014 . petainen kai january 15 2013 . pall responds to dioxane article . forbes . retrieved may 20 2015 . fotouh farsad july 9 2007 . affidavit of farsad fatouhi pdf affidavit . retrieved may 20 2015 via michigan department of environmental quality . petainen kai may 15 2013 . pall corp closes office in the usa issues courtesy firing notice but no press release . forbes . retrieved may 20 2015 . iadipaolo donna november 22 2013 . ann arbor dioxane plume poses threat to city s water supply . a2 journal . retrieved may 21 2015 . fort myers ; business briefs july 2013 florida trend the national medal of technology and innovation recipients 1990 laureates . united states patent and trademark office . retrieved 12 september 2011 . david boris pall . national inventors hall of fame . retrieved 12 september 2011 . pall corporation named a top green company by newsweek . machinery lubrication . retrieved 12 september 2011 . pall in russia . retrieved 2013 07 19 . pall wins engineering materials achievement award for 2011 . filtration separation . 14 september 2010 . retrieved 12 september 2011 . pall corporation named a top green company by newsweek . pharmaceutical online . 1 november 2011 . retrieved 9 november 2011 . external links edit pall corporation official site 50 years of pall retrieved from https 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