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MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13,
2002-- GL&V announces that it has signed a letter of intent with
Baker Hughes Incorporated to acquire its EIMCO Process Equipment
division. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, EIMCO is one of the
world's leading suppliers of high-performance technologies for
liquid/solid separation processes serving various industries such as
chemicals and petrochemicals, mining and minerals, municipal and
industrial water treatment, power generation, and waste water
treatment. With sales of US$180 million (Cdn$280 million) for its
last fiscal year, EIMCO has earned an international reputation and
strong brand recognition for its top-quality products and services.
"This
highly strategic acquisition would make a major contribution to
GL&V's sales and profit growth," said Laurent Verreault,
President and Chief Executive Officer. "Given the synergies
between our organizations, expertise and international networks, we
believe we can create significant economies of scale annually within
three years. In addition, this acquisition would triple our Process
Group's sales, which would fit perfectly with our strategic goal of
better balancing our revenues between our two major business
segments: the Pulp and Paper Group and the Process Group. In fact,
the acquisition of EIMCO would bring the proportion of our revenues
from the pulp and paper industry from 70% to about 40% of our total
business."
Having been in business more than 100
years, EIMCO benefits from an extensive base of installed equipment
in operation around the world, which holds considerable potential
for aftermarket services, GL&V's main business segment.
"Finally, like GL&V, EIMCO
outsources most of its manufacturing to an international network of
subcontractors and operates only one plant, in Salt Lake City, which
represents a great advantage in terms of operational profitability
and flexibility," added CEO Laurent Verreault.
This acquisition, which would be
GL&V's largest in its history, is subject to customary
conditions, including financing, due diligence and regulatory and
board approvals. If successful, it is expected the transaction would
be finalized toward the end of October and would be financed by bank
debt.
Founded in 1975, GL&V is a world
leader in the design, manufacture, upgrading, and after-sales
servicing of engineered equipment used in pulp and paper production
and in liquid/solid separation processes. Besides the pulp and paper
industry, the Company serves various industrial sectors such as
mining and minerals, chemicals and food, energy and the environment.
GL&V holds the proprietary rights
to a portfolio of technologies and trademarks recognized around the
world. Besides its own manufacturing facilities in North America,
its products are manufactured primarily by an international network
of subcontractor partners, providing the Company with rapid
execution and a competitive cost structure that can easily be
adapted to market fluctuations. A world-class integrated supplier,
GL&V employs some 1,200 people and is present in 40 countries on
five continents.
WY: In-Situ Inc., a world-class
manufacturer of water monitoring devices, has added BaroTroll, a new
low-cost barometric smart-probe to the Troll product line. This
device complements the non-gauged (absolute) versions of the current
In-Situ Troll product line by allowing up-hole placement of an
inexpensive barometric logger. Ambient barometric data compensation
is easily achieved through a new 1-step software enhancement in the
included Win-Situ software.
The
new BaroTroll barometric logger was introduced primarily to enhance
data accuracy in all non-gauged (absolute) installations of the
miniTroll Standard-A version of the popular miniTroll smart
level/pressure probe. It can also be used with any of the other
non-gauged probes in the current Troll product line. The BaroTroll
option allows field technicians the option of deploying a network of
lower cost non-gauged probes, while monitoring atmospheric pressure
changes with one above-ground barometric logger.
Atmospheric pressure changes are
known to have an effect on the height of water columns, particularly
in closed aquifers, but also to a lesser degree on open aquifers. By
monitoring these atmospheric pressure changes, and incorporating the
subsequent data into test results, an extremely accurate
characterization may be achieved. The barometric data may be easily
merged into the water level data set using a new wizard included in
the new version of In-Situ's Win-Situ 4.0 software.
After merging data, the technician
has the option of automatically compensating his final data set for
any atmospheric pressure changes. The new BaroTroll is highly
accurate and is designed to work at any atmospheric level from below
sea level to over 18,000 feet (5500m). Accuracy is 0.1% of full
scale with automatic temperature compensation. It was introduced
primarily to enhance the data quality in In-Situ's miniTroll
Standard-A, non-gauged (absolute), product line but may be used with
all current Troll products.
Founded in 1980, In-Situ, Inc. is a
world-class manufacturer of water monitoring devices. The company
manufactures a wide range of field deployable products for the study
of water level/pressure and water quality.
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WEF Adds Water Security Tech Session
to WEFTEC
(Alexandria, VA) - The Water
Environment Federation announced the addition of a new technical
session on water infrastructure security to the WEFTEC 2002 program.
"Remediation of Soils and Groundwater: Case Studies in
Environmental Health Hazards: World Trade Center Collapse, Anthrax
Investigations, Dover Township, New Jersey" will offer
presentations from experts designed to provide the latest
discoveries and up-to-the-minute reports on efforts to contain
environmental contamination.
The
session will also focus on providing the latest updates on
activities of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry on emerging issues in
environmental health. The session will be comprised of presentations
by three experts from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry who have made major advances in the science and policy of
associating diseases with environmental contamination.
Sven Rodenbeck will present
"Public Health Investigation to Assess Potential Exposures
to Airborne and Settled Dust in Lower Manhattan", which
examines the design and evaluation techniques used for
environmental sampling at the World Trade Center collapse;
Peter Kowalski, a member of the
Capitol Hill Tiger Team anthrax investigation, will present
"The Environmental Health Response to the Anthrax Attacks:
The Case of the Hart Senate Office Building";
Juan Reyes will present
"Dover Township Childhood Cancer Investigation: Advances in
Environmental Engineering, Science and Public Health
Policy".
The workshop will conclude with a
90-minute question and answer session with the experts.
Moderated by Robert C. Williams, the workshop is scheduled for
October 2 in Room N228 of McCormick Place. For more information
please visit www.weftec.org .
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Prevents
Floatable Grease in Lift Stations
Product Blocks Fat, Oil From
Wastewater Collection Systems
SARASOTA, Fla. –Advanced
BioCatalytics Corporation (ABC) of Newport Beach, Calif. and
USFilter’s Davis Products have signed a marketing agreement
allowing USFilter to distribute ABC’s Accell product line within
the United States and Canada.
“We are delighted to have USFilter’s
Davis Products as the distributor for Advanced BioCatalytics'
products in the wastewater collection systems market. No other
company has earned the reputation for combining technology with a
commitment to customer service as has Davis Products in the
collection system sector,” says Ray Hardy, managing director of
the Water and Environment Group of ABC.
USFilter will distribute Accell, a
non-toxic liquid designed to eliminate the accumulation of fats and
oils in wastewater collection systems. When added to wastewater
collection lines, Accell prevents floatable grease buildup in lift
station wet wells and eliminates grease from clogged sewer lines.
Grease, fats and oils are rapidly metabolized by the existing
bacteria already present in the wastewater collection system.
“We are excited about the synergy
that this technology has with our line of liquid phase odor control
products and service programs. We know that grease problems are
second only to odor issues for many of our customers and we look
forward to helping them in this respect as well,” says David
Hunniford, general manager of USFilter’s Davis Products.
ABC, founded in 1996, is a
biotechnology company whose core technology, Molecular Kinetics, is
based on protein structure function and cell surface modification.
ABC's bioaccelerator, Accell, speeds the rate of microbial digestion
of organic contaminants such as grease, proteins and carbohydrates.
The product is used to treat collection systems, wet wells, grease
traps. Accell is also used in industrial and municipal wastewater
treatment plants to improve process performance and significantly
reduce operating costs.
Founded in 1938, USFilter’s Davis
Products designs and manufactures a wide range of water and
wastewater treatment products. Through its two facilities in
Sarasota, Fla. and Thomasville, Ga., Davis Products provides
unmatched technologies for liquid phase odor control, biological
treatment, liquid/solid separations, filtration, sludge drying, and
retrofit and renovation services. Davis Products is also the sole
distributor of EMU wet pit/dry pit pumps and EMU submersible mixers
and jet aerators.
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. Potter wants more info on
calcium thiosulfate:
Has anyone investigated the use of
calcium thiosulfate, CaS2O3, for use as a dechlorination agent?
In a help forum last October, a Larry Zeper posed the same
question but I was unable to contact him or find out if anyone could
provide me some information on using cal thio as a non-haz
substitute for SO2.
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here to post a reply)
I need to continuously monitor the
chlorine residual from the outfall at a sewer manhole location.
My plan is to set a precast concrete building at the remote
location with the analyzer in it and run a sample line down a mh 20+
feet into the 66" outfall pipe. I am planning on using PE
tubing with a strainer. My concern is how to will install the
sample line so that 1) It isn't ripped out of the pipe by the flow
2) the sample line doesn't just pull solids from the bottom of the
pipe?
Should it be anchored to the side of
the pipe? Should there be some sort of a float system? (Click
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week's photo is of Aquastore process and emergency water storage
tank installed at a Palatka, Florida wallboard manufacturing plant,
Lafarge Gypsum. The tank 31 feet in diameter and 102 feet tall
and holds 569,000 gallons of water.
We would love to have your photo of a
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We are searching for salespeople as
independent contractors to represent our product line to cities and
industry in a protected geographic area, and we will take care of
the cash flow and administration. We offer a tremendous
assortment of wastewater treatment technologies, as well as decades
of combined experience to help you make sales. In addition to
this, our website is one of the most visited for wastewater
technologies, averaging more than 27,000 visits per month.....and we
haven't even completed it yet. All leads generated through
this are passed along to our representatives.
You will be able to sell DAFs,
clarifiers, belt presses, filter presses, RO, ultrafiltration,
biological systems, oil/water sep., dredging, polymers, specialized
patented products and many other technologies. We also have a
tremendous volume of good used equipment and our own laboratory.
We can do anything there is to do in the wastewater field.
If you would like to know more,
please contact me via E-Mail at kochinfinity@aol.com.
Or you can contact us with the following information. We look
forward to talking with you.
Regards,
Steve Ferrell
Director of Field Operations Koch/Infinity Wastewater Technologies, LLC
PO Box 3436
Evansville, IN 47733
Tel (812) 437-5640
Fax (812) 4375648 www.koch-water.com
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