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Recent efforts in Ahlstrom’s filtration business—on display at Filtration—include new capacity in its gas turbine and high efficiency air business in Tampere, Finland as well as new capacity for transportation filtration applications in Brazil. With roots in the transportation market, Ahlstrom has made several investments and acquisitions to expand its role in the filter media market. Its most recent acquisition was Shandong Puri Filter & Paper Products Ltd., a Chinese producer of transportation filtration media.