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Dollar sales for the U. S. residential water treatment equipment industry were $800 million in 1997. 1 There are approximately 100 companies which manufacture water purification equipment. 2 One of the better-known companies is Ionics whose stock symbol is ION . 3
Ionics got its start in Massachusetts in 1948 and its innovation was the invention of a special membrane used to desalt seawater. 4 Forty percent of its business is exported overseas or is produced overseas. 5 Ionics recently celebrated its 50th birthday by sponsoring a symposium at which Leon Billing, author of the Clean Water Act of 1974, was the keynote speaker. 6
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Title: Ionics Fact Sheet
Heading: Ionics Fact
Sheet
last updated: December 15, 1995
size: 20470
date
visited: Jan. 11, 1999
URL:
http://www.ionics.com/aboution/factsheet.htm
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Title: The Elite Page
Heading:
date of
document: 7/14/98
size: 16017
date visited: Jan. 11, 1999
URL:
http://www.ionics.com/products/consumer/elite/default.htm
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"Meeting the Water Challenges of the 21st
Century: Ionics Holds International Water Symposium at MIT,"
PRNewswire, Watertown, MA, December 4, 1998. Company Press Release.
Source: Ionics, Incorporated.
date of document: Dec. 4, 1998
size: 12021
date visited : Jan. 11, 1999
URL:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/981204/ma_ionics__1.html