World Filtration Congress 9 (WFC9) Overview

The World Filtration Congress is a quadri-annual world event. Sponsored in 2004 by the AFS, the event was held in New Orleans, April 18-22nd.

This was the first World Congress hosted in the United States since the World Filtration Congress 3 was held in 1982 at Downingtown, PA. The attendee list consisted of the global who’s who of the filtration industry.

Immediately preceding WFC9 were four AFS Basics in Filtration short courses covering the topics of liquid and air filtration, centrifuge and automotive filtration.

The four day conference hosted over 600 attendees and 300 papers were presented. Fully, one half of all the attendees were from one of 38 foreign countries. This was truly an international conference and a diverse cultural experience.

During the 3-day International Exposition a number of the AFS Corporate Sponsors and exhibitors, especially those with booths featuring equipment and catering to end-users, reported record number of leads and the best filtration Exposition they had experienced in some time.

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