Sofi Filtration is joining the sustainability efforts of the semiconductor industry with their new ambitious R&D project, RecoVal, funded partly by Business Finland. By employing their Sofi Filter®, Sofi Filtration targets a 70% recovery of the valuable ceria used in polishing slurries. The ultimate target is ceria reuse and tools for resource efficiency for the growing semiconductor industry.

AA Sakatti Mining, the Finnish subsidiary of Anglo American, conducts exploration in Finnish Lapland. Exploration takes place around the municipality of Sodankylä with the multimetal deposit located 15 km north of the municipality. Since 2013 they have operated their Sofi Filter® SF1000 to remove fine solids from waters coming from drill core sawing.

Weeefiner and Sofi Filtration, two Finnish SMEs, have joined forces in a strategic partnership to address the complex challenges of industrial water treatment. Together, they aim to develop innovative and comprehensive water treatment solutions tailored to meet the increasingly demanding requirements of the industry sector.

Read more about our recent R&D activity on Ni-thickener overflow application and discover Sofi's capabilities to extract valuable metal from wastewater streams.

One of the major challenges faced by the metallurgical coal mining industry is the presence of very fine particles in the processed water that are difficult to treat with traditional methods. Our pilot demonstrates the applicability of our Sofi Filter for coal fines removal.