Koch Membrane Systems Industrial & Life Sciences Services

Concentrating, clarifying, and purifying process streams to increase yield and reduce cost.

In a global marketplace, continually enhancing products while reducing costs is paramount. That's why our sanitary line of membrane separation technologies and systems play such a vital role in the food, beverage, dairy, industrial biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.

Our skilled engineering teams can optimize your existing systems and help you address new applications as needed. Our ambitious R&D group continually develops novel membranes and systems, ensuring that state-of-the-art products are always available to you. And our Process Technology and Technical Services team provides ongoing technical assistance, from staff training to operation assessments. Together, we can keep your business ahead of the curve with high-tech, high-quality solutions that meet both consumer and regulatory standards.

Food Solutions
With decades of experience meeting the special needs of food processors, we have developed a wealth of solutions proven to boost production, reduce costs, and increase process efficiency while improving yield and quality. We offer a full range of membranes and systems to maximize water use and close the process loop in your manufacturing operation—not only removing contaminants, recovering materials, and purifying process streams within the plant, but also treating the outgoing effluent to meet environmental discharge standards.

Beverage Solutions
KMS offers a multitude of efficient solutions that help beverage manufacturers concentrate, clarify, and purify products, from the treatment of incoming water to the final product. From water to wine, it's smart technology that's behind the world's favorite beverages.

Dairy Solutions
Our decades-long relationship with dairy producers uniquely qualifies us to help the industry meet growing demands for its products. Our engineers are well-versed in the specific separation and filtration challenges that exist, and have developed some of the industry's most widely used technologies. Our innovative products are ideal for whey and milk concentration, production of whey isolates, and milk standardization. Time-tested and highly efficient, they have been shown to reduce operating costs, increase productivity, and keep dairy operations running smoothly—and profitably.

Industrial Biotechnology Solutions
Our specialized systems excel at helping industrial biotechnology companies purify process streams in ways that other mechanical separation technologies simply cannot.

Pharmaceutical Intermediates Solutions
At KMS, we are ahead of the curve, supplying technologies that concentrate, purify, and clarify select compounds cost-effectively, enabling a high-product yield. Our pharmaceutical intermediate solutions encompass vaccines, antibiotics, active ingredients, diagnostic and process enzymes, monoclonal antibodies, pharmacology peptides and amino acids, and drug delivery liposome conditioning.

Automotive & Appliance Solutions
Automobiles, appliances, and many other metal products are coated with water-soluble paint in the electrocoating process. Since the 1960s, KMS has been at the forefront, meeting global demands for more sophisticated paint systems that produce quality, long-lasting products.

General Industrial Solutions
KMS membrane technology is widely used in so many industries for selective separation of compounds, purification of liquid streams, concentration of solutions, and clarification.