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company since 2008. According to him,
ESG Filtration has always kept their prod-
uct line up-to-date, due in part to their close
ties with some of the world's biggest manu-
facturers.
"They continually bring new product offer-
ings to us, so that
keeps our own of-
fering fairly fresh as
well," he says.
For the past several
years, ESG Filtration
has focused largely
on distributing prod-
ucts that cater to the
production of heavy
oil at Steam Assisted
Gravity
Drainage
(SAGD)
facilities.
The SAGD pro-
cess has created new
challenges, and sub-
sequently new op-
portunities for the
treatment of boiler
feed water, leading
to the application
of reverse osmosis
(RO) membranes in the filtration industry.
Although this new endeavour lies somewhat
outside of the company's traditional offer-
ing, it has quickly become "a very big piece"
of ESG Filtration's business in recent years.
"We're not the only game in town when it