White Plains, NY -- ITT Industries, Inc. announced that it has acquired the business and assets of Ellis K. Phelps & Company (Phelps) of Apopka, Florida. Phelps has long been the largest U.S. distributor of products sold under ITT's Flygt brand for the wastewater pumping and treatment market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

"This acquisition will provide a foundation for support and sales growth in our $2.3billion global water and wastewater business, and firmly secure our position as a premier supplier of related products in the Florida-Georgia region," said Robert Ayers, President of ITT Industries' Fluid Technology.

Phelps has more than 53 years experience of servicing the Florida and Southern Georgia marketplace. Phelps' sales, service and local monitoring and control business revolves primarily around ITT's Flygt products and complimentary equipment used in water and waste water pumping and treatment solutions. Phelps' realized $32 million in revenue in 2004. The Phelps organization has 75 employees between its main location in Apopka and three full service satellite facilities in West Palm Beach and Fort Myers, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia.

About ITT Industries

ITT Industries, Inc. supplies advanced technology products and services in key markets including: fluid and water management including water treatment; defense communication, opto-electronics, information technology and services; electronic interconnects and switches; and other specialty products. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company generated $6.8 billion in 2004 sales.

Web site: www.itt.com

WEF : Conference for Animal Feeding Operations

Alexandria, VA -- The Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) jointly announce “Animal Agriculture and Processing: Managing Environmental Impacts”. Scheduled for August 31 through September 2 at the Hyatt Regency in St. Louis, Missouri, the conference will address new EPA regulations for Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) and discuss its effects on public health and the environment.

Each year, AFOs produce more than 500 million tons of manure as well as odors and emissions such as particulates, ammonia, and so-called greenhouse gases. As a result, AFOs have come under increased scrutiny for their need to prevent adverse environmental and public health effects through the application of advanced technologies and sound management principles. In response, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Air Compliance Agreement which is designed to minimize air emissions from AFOs and ensure compliance with the Clean Air Act and other environmental protection laws.

The comprehensive program will feature an update on requirements of the AFOs rule; address federal, state, and local regulatory and policy developments for feeding and processing operations; and highlight effective management and technology-based approaches.

Other topical areas include comprehensive nutrient management; EPA and USDA roles; social and economic issues; solid waste processing and management; successful and sustainable alternatives for manure treatment including retrofits and upgrades; litter management and ownership issues; manure management; technical solutions for odor and emissions control; measuring, monitoring, and modeling; water issues; new technologies; case studies; and alternatives to land applications.

The opening program on Wednesday, August 31, will feature a welcome and introductions by John Meyer, Tyson Foods, Inc. and Darrel Steiner, Ag-Chem Equipment Co., and a keynote panel discussion with environmental and industry professionals. Robert A. Kaplan, Director, Special Litigation and Projects Division, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, EPA, is expected to deliver the keynote address.

Those encouraged to attend include farmers, agronomists, agriculturalists, consultants, engineers, municipal water and wastewater treatment system managers, and local and state regulatory personnel.

For more information and to register, visit www.amwa.org/events

WARRENDALE, PA -- Siemens Water Technologies announced today its renewed business focus in the Mesoamerica region through expansion of its product and service offering, manufacturing and sales organization. By leveraging the existing Siemens infrastructure in Mexico, including the Mexico City base of USFilter (a business of Siemens Water Technologies), Siemens will expand the company’s water business in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

The Siemens Water Technologies business will continue to focus on both industrial and municipal markets with an expanded scope of technology offering and services in the region.

“The most significant part of this expansion is our ability to now offer water treatment services and outsourcing to customers in this region,” said Carlos Fragoso, managing director for Siemens Water Technologies in Mesoamerica.

“By integrating our service and technology offering, we have the ability to provide customers with total water solutions from high-purity to wastewater to mobile services – helping our customers operate and maintain their facilities at peak efficiency,” added Fragoso.

The water services will include build-own-operate, mobile water treatment and emergency water supply, plus existing Siemens Energy & Automation product offerings in the water market, both industrial and municipal.

As part of the business expansion, Siemens Water Technologies will also re-tool and expand its manufacturing facility in Mexico City to support the additional workload for the region. The company also expects to add additional personnel as part of the expansion.

Fragoso, who has 30-plus years of water treatment experience, in various sales, engineering and management positions was appointed managing director of Siemens Water Technologies, Mesoamerica, June 1. He has more than 10 years of tenure with USFilter in sales and management positions in both the technology and services sectors.

USFilter established its Mexico City office in 1994. Since then, the company has provided hundreds of installations in the power, biopharmaceutical, food and beverage, microelectronic, automotive and municipal/governmental industries.

Web site: http://www.usfilter.com/

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Efficient Use of Water in The Textile Finishing Industry
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We are in the process of upgrading our wastewater treatment plant and would like to know the possibility of applying MBR's for the treatment of tannery effluents. The plant has a flowrate of 4,000 cubic metres per day and the raw wastewater characteristics are as follows :

COD 3,000 mgpl ; BOD 1,000 mgpl ; SS 2,250 mgpl ; TKN 300 mgpl ; TDS 12,000 mgpl ; Chlorides 6,000 mgpl ; Calcium as ion 300 mgpl ; Magnesium as ion 200 mgpl ; Sulphides 60 mgpl

We had done a treatability study with a submerged Zenon pilot and we got the best results at a HRT of 24 hours where COD was down to 150 mgpl and BOD was not detectable. The study was too small to carry out nit-denit studies but we hope to incorporate the same in the upgraded system.

The problem gets even more complicated because the next step that we have contemplated is a 2-stage RO system for desalination. The recovered water will be recycled back to the tanneries for reuse. The concentrate would be evaporated using a mechanical/thermal system and the crystallised mixture of inorganic salts would be packed and stored in a safe site.

Hence, our primary aim is to clean-up the effluents as much as possible through the biological route while at the same time making it fit to be fed (with a low SDI) to the RO system.

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Vanitec Ltd.
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