Speciality resins company Purolite has published an IPHONE/IPAD App containing useful resources related to water treatment , especially ion exchange. The free app can be downloaded from the App store, where it can be readily found by searching for “Purolite”. The App has unit conversion calculators, a periodic table of elements, tables for screen size equivalents and regenerant strength plus other resources. “Our goal is to help our customers find the information they need as quickly and easily as possible. Much of the information in this App is on our website. However, making it more accessible via IPHONE or IPAD enables water professionals to more readily access these resources” said Gary Thundercliffe, Global Marketing Manager for Purolite.

In mining, Purolite products are also utilised in the recovery of uranium, gold, molybdenum, rhenium, nickel, copper and other valuable metals. Purolite has a range of products tailored for all methods of industrial hydrometallurgy. Such methods include sulphuric acid and bicarbonate leaching of uranium, metals recovery from “clarified” solutions, either Heap Leaching (HL) or In-Situ-Leaching (ISL) operations; and uranium, gold and basic non-ferrous metals sorption from pulps at Resin-In-Pulp (RIP) and Resin-In-Leach (RIL) operations. Headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, the company has ISO-9000:2001 certified sales offices in more than 40 countries as well as manufacturing and R&D facilities in the USA, China and Romania. Purolite also has a dedicated central research and development facility in the UK. Purolite has been a member of the Water Quality Association since 1982 and manufactures more than 500 different ion-exchange-resins, catalysts and adsorbents.