About Our Founder
Longwave UV/FORMERLY SALCOR INC. is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Jim Cruver. Salcor will continue operating under the name Longwave UV, Inc., exclusively offering all Salcor products.
We remain committed to upholding Jim and Sally Cruver's vision of delivering the highest-quality UV disinfection units. Longwave UV will carry on Jim's mission of establishing NSF standards for the minimum allowable wastewater contamination levels.
The UL listing was transferred to Longwave UV. With all of this in mind, we're excited to move forward into another 25 years of ensuring clean water. We will continue to innovate and manufacture the trusted products you've come to rely on.
James (Jim) Cruver, PhD
Jim began his water reclamation career with his University of Washington Chemical Engineering PhD Thesis. In the 1960's, he studied and enveloped a predictive method for the rate of coolant loss in a nuclear reactor mishap, which is still used today worldwide in the design of nuclear reactors.
Dr. Cruver was a team member who developed the RO technology that's used in the Carlsbad seawater desalination plant. The system furnishes 10% of San Diego County's water use.He began building UV Disinfection Systems for fish tanks at San Diego Sea World, Florida Disney EPCOT Center, Baltimore National Aquarium and others. In 1997 he revolutionized UV Disinfection with is Salcor 3G UV unit for small wastewater systems (from single homes to small community systems up to 100,000+ GPD. His technology has saved shellfish (oysters, clams and crabs) from wastewater contamination.
After fatal outbreaks from the California Odwalla Company juice scare in the late 1990's, he developed a UV Disinfection machine for juices and other liquid food products, receiving Fast Track FDA approval in 2000. Dr. Cruver had over 50 years' experience in water and wastewater treatment including reverse osmosis, filtration, and disinfection. Dr. Cruver is the author of 75 technical papers and is the co-author of a graduate-level text book on water treatment.