| Congress History |
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The first World Filtration Congress, held in 1974, was informally coordinated by a number of individual organizations, each acting independently. In 1990, INDEFI - International Delegates on Filtration - was created as an umbrella body to coordinate and widen the competition to organize future Congresses. WFC11 was very sucessfully held in Austria and attended by 760 delegates from 50 countries, 100 exhibitors and a total of 1800 participants. |
| NEXT WORLD FILTRATION CONGRESS | ||||
| 2016 | WFC12 | Taipei | Taipei Hsien | RALS - Research Association of Solid-Liquid Separation |
| 2012 | WFC11 | Graz | Austria | GÖCH - Austrian Chemical Society |
| 2008 | WFC10 | Leipzig | Germany | VDI-Society for Chemical & Process Engineering |
| 2004 | WFC 9 | New Orleans | USA | AFS - American Filtration Society |
| 2000 | WFC 8 | Brighton | Great Britain | Filtration Society |
| 1996 | WFC 7 | Budapest | Hungary | Hungarian Chemical Society |
| 1993 | WFC 6 | Nagoya | Japan | Japanese Filtration Association |
| 1990 | WFC 5 | Nice | France | SFF - Societe Francaise de Filtration |
| 1986 | WFC 4 | Ostende | Belgium | KVIV |
| 1982 | WFC 3 | Wilmington | USA | AFS - American Filtration Society |
| 1978 | WFC 2 | London | Great Britain | Filtration Society |
| 1974 | WFC 1 | Paris | France | SFF - Societe Francaise de Filtration |
Proposals to host a future WFC Congress are accepted only from registered Members of INDEFI and the applying organization must provide evidence that the organizing team has the experience and resources to stage a major world conference.
Membership of INDEFI is open to Filtration Societies that have the science and technology of
filtration and separation as their principal activity. Only one member is permitted per country.
At present there are 12 Member Filtration Societies. Societies who are interested in applying
for membership to INDEFI should indicate their principle activities in filtration and separation
as well as their membership and contact Prof.
Kuo-Jen Hwang, Chairman of INDEFI from April 2012 to April 2016, at kjhwang@mail.tku.edu.tw
