Government recognition
$5M+ in grants & SR&ED credits
Federal and provincial recognition of Petro Sep's membrane separation R&D over twenty-seven years.
Government of Canada · Province of Ontario
About Petro Sep
Petro Sep has been fabricating industrial process equipment, packaged plants, and patented membrane systems since 1999. The membrane chemistry, the patents, and membrane production live in our Toronto (Mississauga) shop. The ASME code-stamped pressure-vessel fabrication and Asia-Pacific delivery happen in our Kerteh shop, where most of what we ship is built. Same company, same quality system, from the lab to the commissioned plant.
Our story
Most fabricators don't have their own separation IP. Most membrane vendors don't fabricate. The seams between them are where projects fail. The membrane supplier blames the integrator. The integrator blames the engineer. The engineer blames the operator. Somebody is always pointing somewhere else.
Petro Sep was founded in 1999 to do both. Build the equipment and the plants the customer needs, in our own shops, against international code, and bring our own patented separation technology when the fluid is hard. Engineering, fabrication, installation, and operations under one contract. R&D and pilot work added when the project rests on membrane IP.
Twenty-seven years later, we run two facilities. Toronto (corporate HQ, engineering, R&D, membrane chemistry, patents, and membrane production, since 1999) and Kerteh (Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd., six-acre heavy-iron fabrication shop, 300 MT/month capacity, ASME U, U2, R, and NB, since 2014). Both shops run on the same ISO 9001 quality system, the same engineering team, and the same project-ownership culture. The membranes that power our productized platforms are manufactured through a long-standing joint venture in Yantai, Shandong (China). An exclusive distribution partnership with Tofflon extends our pharmaceutical, bioprocessing, and food-equipment scope.
Recognition
Government recognition, academic collaboration, and the paperwork that anchors twenty-seven years of work.
“This company in Oakville has figured out a better way, they have built a better mousetrap. And they are learning how to do that on a large scale.”
Government recognition
Federal and provincial recognition of Petro Sep's membrane separation R&D over twenty-seven years.
Government of Canada · Province of Ontario
Toronto (Mississauga) HQ visits
Hon. Bill Blair, then Minister of Emergency Preparedness, and MP Iqra Khalid (Mississauga, Erin Mills) visited the Mississauga office in 2022. Premier Dalton McGuinty visited in an earlier engagement.
Academic collaboration
Long-standing R&D collaboration with the Industrial Membrane Research Institute (IMRI) at the University of Ottawa, with NRC of Canada matched funding, and with Dr. Takeshi Matsuura since 2003.
See Publications, below.
Leadership

President & CEO
Fakhir Baig founded Petro Sep Corporation in Toronto in 1999 to commercialize membrane separation technologies for industrial process problems. Over the following decades he built the company across two facilities (Toronto for engineering, R&D, and membrane fabrication; Kerteh for heavy-iron fabrication and Asia-Pacific delivery) and a long-standing membrane-manufacturing joint venture in Yantai, Shandong. He has worked alongside renowned membrane scientist Dr. Takeshi Matsuura since 2003 and co-authored Chapter 7 of the Elsevier reference text Membrane Separation Principles and Applications (2019).
Publications
Books, chapters, and peer-reviewed papers by our founder, Fakhir Baig, on membrane separation and its industrial applications.

Chapter author (Chapter 7, Pervaporation)
Elsevier, 2018
Petro Sep founder Fakhir Baig authored the Pervaporation chapter of this Elsevier reference on membrane separation principles and industrial applications, edited by A. F. Ismail, M. A. Rahman, M. H. D. Othman, and Dr. Takeshi Matsuura (University of Ottawa, IMRI).

Chapter author (Chapter 17, Pervaporation)
Wiley, 2008
Fakhir Baig authored the Pervaporation chapter of this Wiley volume, edited by N. N. Li, A. G. Fane, W. S. W. Ho, and Dr. Takeshi Matsuura. The chapter covers AZEO-SEP and VOC-SEP applications and the simulation of hollow-fiber module performance.
Peer-reviewed papers
Simulation of Pervaporation through a Hollow-Fiber Module for a Reactive Waste Stream from Phenolic Resin Manufacturing
C. K. Yeom, F. U. Baig · Membrane Journal (The Membrane Society of Korea), 2003
Simulation and Process Design of Pervaporation Plate-and-Frame Modules for Dehydration of Organic Solvents
C. K. Yeom, M. Kazi, F. U. Baig · Membrane Journal (The Membrane Society of Korea), 2002
Founder profile
Fakhir Baig, P.Eng. on LinkedInCertifications, patents, and trademarks
Code stamps, quality systems, and national licenses, plus the US patents and registered trademarks that protect our productized platforms. Documentation ships in every project handover package.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Section VIII Division 1, pressure vessel construction
Authorizes Petro Sep to fabricate code-stamped pressure vessels. Held at our Kerteh fabrication shop. Required for ASME-jurisdiction projects in the United States and reciprocally accepted in Canada (with provincial CRN registration), Europe (with PED equivalence), and most international markets.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Section VIII Division 2, alternative-rules pressure vessel construction
Authorizes fabrication of pressure vessels designed and built to ASME Section VIII Division 2, the alternative-rules code for higher-design-stress applications. Held at our Kerteh fabrication shop.
National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors
Repair and alteration of pressure-retaining items
Authorizes Petro Sep to perform repairs and alterations on existing code-stamped pressure equipment. Allows us to service systems we did not originally fabricate.
National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors
Registration of fabricated pressure equipment
Petro Sep is authorized to register fabricated pressure equipment with the National Board. NB registration is the standard inspection-jurisdiction record across most US states and many international markets.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Welder qualification, all stainless and exotic alloys
Every welder on our shop floor is qualified per ASME Section IX for the materials and procedures they execute. Welds are traceable from heat number to project number to operator at our Kerteh fabrication shop.
International Organization for Standardization
Quality management system, design through delivery
Petro Sep's quality management system is certified to ISO 9001, covering engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, and operations across both our Toronto (Mississauga) and Kerteh facilities. Audited annually by an accredited registrar.
Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Malaysia
Approved fabrication and engineering vendor
PSE Malaysia is a PETRONAS-licensed fabrication and engineering vendor. Required for project work with PETRONAS and its subsidiaries across the Malaysian oil and gas sector and the broader PETRONAS supply chain.
Standard for Welding and Engineering Contractors (Malaysia)
Welding and engineering contractor qualification
PSE Malaysia carries the SWEC welding and engineering contractor license. Underpins the integrated welding, NDT, and engineering scope delivered from our Kerteh shop.
Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Malaysia
Unfired pressure vessel manufacturing
DOSH (Department of Occupational Safety and Health) Malaysia licenses PSE Malaysia as a manufacturer of unfired pressure vessels (UPV). Required for domestic Malaysian pressure equipment scope.
Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Malaysia
Pipeline manufacturing
DOSH Malaysia licenses PSE Malaysia as a pipeline manufacturer, complementing the UPV manufacturer license to cover the full pressure-equipment and piping scope.
Malaysian Investment Development Authority
Manufacturing operations within Malaysia
MIDA (Malaysian Investment Development Authority) licenses PSE Malaysia's manufacturing operations. The license covers our Kerteh fabrication shop and supports export of finished equipment from Malaysia.
Patents
United States · US 6,645,380
Granted US patent, invented by Fakhir U. Baig and assigned to Petro Sep. Covers the stacked separation-module architecture, fluid-containment chambers stacked within each module, that lets one apparatus run pervaporation, vapor permeation, membrane distillation, and filtration. The mechanical core of the productized platforms.
View patentUnited States and PCT · US 2004/0211726 A1 (WO 03/000389)
Published US application and international PCT filing, invented by Fakhir U. Baig and assigned to Petro Sep. Covers the hollow-fiber membrane bundle module and separation method behind the AQUA-SEP®, VOC-SEP®, and AZEO-SEP® systems.
View patentRegistered trademarks
Canada (CIPO) · 1135297
Registered word mark for the Petro Sep company and brand with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.
View recordCanada (CIPO) · 1092272
Registered word mark for the AQUA-SEP vacuum membrane distillation platform.
View recordCanada (CIPO) · 1092274
Registered word mark for the VOC-SEP vapor-permeation recovery platform.
View recordCanada (CIPO) · 1092273
Registered word mark for the AZEO-SEP pervaporation platform.
View record
Toronto (Mississauga) · Kerteh
Where the equipment is engineered, fabricated, and commissioned.
See our facilitiesLocations
Two facilities under one company: the Toronto (Mississauga) engineering and membrane shop, and the Kerteh heavy-iron fabrication shop.

Toronto (Mississauga), Ontario, Canada · 1999
Petro Sep Corporation. The engineering and research arm of the company, where our membrane chemistry, patents, and membrane production of our productized AQUA-SEP®, VOC-SEP®, and AZEO-SEP® systems live. Approximately 30 staff covering process engineering, plant design, polymer and membrane science, and operations.
2197 Dunwin Drive, Mississauga, ON L5L 1X2, Canada

Kerteh, Terengganu, Malaysia · 2014 (fully operational December 2019)
Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd. (PSE). The fabrication arm of the company. A six-acre site in the Kerteh industrial corridor with 300 MT/month of fabrication capacity across three fabrication shops, three overhead cranes (10, 16, and 20 tons), and a 4 m × 40 m post-weld heat treatment furnace. ASME U, U2, R, and NB stamps. PETRONAS and SWEC licensed. DOSH UPV and Pipeline manufacturer licenses. MIDA manufacturing license.
PT 3836, Kawasan Perindustrian Kerteh, 24300 Kerteh, Kemaman, Terengganu, Malaysia
Partnerships
Distinct from our two facilities: a membrane-manufacturing joint venture and an exclusive equipment partner that widen the scope we can package into a complete plant.
JV partner · China
A long-standing joint venture in Yantai, Shandong. One of China's earliest manufacturers of micro-filtration membrane. The JV manufactures membranes for our productized platforms and supports tech transfer for membrane separation, R&D consultation, and project delivery across the Asia-Pacific region.
Visit MotianExclusive partner · China
Petro Sep holds an exclusive distribution and sales partnership with Tofflon, a publicly listed manufacturer of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and food-processing equipment, including freeze-drying, sterile liquid handling, and bioprocessing systems. The relationship widens the equipment scope we can engineer and package into a complete plant.
Visit TofflonMarkets served: Canada, United States, Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia, plus projects across Latin America. These are the markets we serve, not places we operate from. The build happens in Toronto (Mississauga) and Kerteh; the projects ship across three continents.
Contact
Send drawings, a spec, a sample, or just the problem. Someone from our team reads it and gets back to you.
Toronto (Mississauga), Canada
Email: info [at] petrosep [dot] com
Phone: +1 (905) 825-3109
Kerteh, Malaysia
Email: info [at] petrosep [dot] com
Phone: +60 13-984 2127
Your first reply comes from a real person on our team who can read your spec, your drawings, or your fluid problem and tell you whether our scope fits.