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ITT Industries Completes Acquisition of Kodak's Remote
Sensing Systems
 WHITE
PLAINS, NY -- ITT Industries, Inc. today announced it has
completed its purchase of the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS)
business from Eastman Kodak Company for $725 million in
cash. The acquisition significantly broadens ITT Industries'
well-established space payload and service product offering
for U.S. military as well as other government, commercial
and scientific customers.
The RSS business is a leading
supplier of high-resolution satellite imaging systems and
information services. The combination of the two businesses
will create a full-spectrum satellite payload provider with
the latest visible and infrared satellite imaging technology
to serve the $6 billion remote sensing market.
"The completion of this
acquisition establishes ITT Industries as a world leader in
space-based imaging systems, with RSS' imaging and image
information processing capabilities complementing ITT's
weather and navigational payload and ground-based services
offering," said Henry Driesse, President of ITT Industries
Defense Electronics & Services. "The combined imaging
businesses, to be called the Space Systems Division, will be
developing and integrating a full spectrum of space-based
sensors and image information services for government,
commercial and scientific applications, a market segment we
have long recognized as having strong growth potential."
Driesse noted that with the
acquisition, the company will be better positioned to
compete for a number of new programs, including the next
generation weather satellites, high-resolution imagery and
small satellite applications for scientific and intelligence
missions.
"Our combined expertise in radio
frequency, infrared and optical systems ensure that we will
have technology leadership well into the future," Driesse
said. "We anticipate being able to provide customers with a
broader array of products and services."
RSS is the third significant
strategic acquisition completed by ITT Industries in 2004,
following the company's long-held strategy of acquiring
companies within or adjacent to their existing strong core
businesses. In January, ITT Industries completed its
acquisition of Germany-based WEDECO Water Technology, the
leading provider of UV and Ozone oxidation equipment for the
water treatment market, and Shanghai-based Hengtong Water
Technology.
About ITT Industries
ITT Industries, Inc. (
http://www.itt.com/ ) is a
$6 billion global multi-industry company based in White
Plains, NY. ITT supplies advanced technology products and
services in key markets including: fluid and water
management including water treatment.
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Weekly Update #44 : Iraq
Reconstruction - 8/11/04
 Washington,
DC -- Weekly Update #44 -- This fact sheet highlights
overall accomplishments and some weekly activities from
USAID’s reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
Highlights this Week:
•
Under USAID’s Infrastructure Reconstruction contract, Iraqi
subcontractors are continuing to expand Baghdad’s Shark
Diljah water treatment plant. Work at the plant will
increase potable water flow to east Baghdad by 45 percent,
benefiting 2.5 million people. The expansion will add 200
million liters per day to the water supply.
Construction is underway on the foundation of the chlorine
building and the alum building is being plastered and
painted. The chlorine and alum buildings store the chemicals
and machinery used to pump them into the water for
treatment. Chlorine is a chemical that kills bacteria in
water; alum is a settling agent that is used to remove
turbidity in water.
• A US
NGO is partnering with USAID to rehabilitate 87 compact
water treatment units in rural areas of Diyala, Babil, Thi
Qar, Karbala, Wassit and Muthanna Governorates. The units
vary in water production capacity from 15m3 to 50m3/hour and
can potentially provide sufficient clean water to meet the
daily needs of 200,000 persons. The project is about 75
percent complete. Selection of the units was based on site
assessments and consultations with the governorates’ various
water directorates.
The
NGO is ensuring the sustainability of the project by
providing training workshops on maintenance and operations
to staff that have been selected by the water directorate
and the community. The project began 10 months ago and
currently all but one compact unit is functioning properly.
The project includes hygiene and basic health education
campaigns primarily targeting women and children and
focusing on the prevention of water borne disease
transmission. To date, the entire program has reached
224,000 persons.
• A US
NGO is partnering with USAID to provide clean water to a
village of 300 recent internally displaced persons (IDPs) in
Al Qadisiyah Governorate through temporary tankering and the
construction of a 1.5 km water network connecting the
village to a nearby water treatment plant. The NGO will also
carry out emergency repairs to the plant and training for
its operators and technicians.
Community-based hygiene education will also be provided to
the villagers. The villagers were displaced after the recent
conflict by Kurds returning to reclaim their homes and lands
which had been given to Arabs during the former regime.
These IDPs of Arabic ethnicity now live in small houses
which they constructed of brick and mud. The settlement is
considered permanent as the chances of their return is
remote. Currently there is no potable water source
accessible to the village residents, and water is taken from
an irrigation canal, which puts the health of the population
at risk.
Diarrheal diseases, many of which are caused by water-borne
illnesses, are the primary health risk for children under
the age of five in Iraq. The villagers are also susceptible
to hygiene related illnesses as they lack access to clean
water for washing, cooking and cleaning. Under this newly
approved project, the NGO will immediately begin tankering
water to the villagers. As this is considered a temporary
measure, the NGO will mobilize the residents to collect
water directly from the tankers for the eight week time
period needed to complete the repairs to the plant and to
install the connecting water network.
• At
the wastewater treatment plant in An Najaf, civil work is
complete and crews have begun to load 8,000 cubic meters of
biofilter media into the clarifying tanks. Biofilter media
are small plastic perforated spheres that reduce the organic
content of wastewater. Crews have completed rebuilding the
digester gas compressors that compact the raw sewage for
storage and for faster decomposition and have finalized
dredging of the temporary sedimentation lagoon and returned
it to continuous operation.
The
mechanical and electrical subcontract is now approximately
58 percent complete. Under this project, full sewage
processing and treatment capabilities will be restored to
141,000 people in An Najaf by December 2004.
• The
Najaf water treatment plant, called Al Zarga plant, is
located in central Iraq and is being rehabilitated by USAID.
It will benefit all of An Najaf city’s 563,000 residents
when it is completed in August 2004.
Civil
work has already been completed. Major work now includes
repairing the filter beds, pumping systems and the
sedimentation tank system. Thirty seven of forty filter beds
have been completed and returned to full service. The Iraqi
subcontractor is also installing a new chlorination system
and is removing the existing sludge pumps for refurbishment.
See
complete report at:
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/updates/aug04/iraq_fs44_081104.pdf
Source: USAID,
http://www.usaid.gov/
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Ecochlor : Receives Patent for
Ballast Water Treatment System
 ACTON,
MA -- Ecochlor, Inc. announced today that the company has
been issued U.S. Patent 6,773,611 for its Ecopod(TM) Ballast
Water Treatment System, developed over the last three years
to neutralize unwanted organisms in the ballast water of
ships. The patent covers the use of chlorine dioxide as a
biocide for the treatment of ballast water, and discloses
the design of a treatment system that automatically controls
the concentration of the chlorine dioxide in the ballast
tanks.
According to Ecochlor President Tom Perlich, "We are pleased
that this key patent has issued, and we look forward to the
issuance of our other patents pending in the U.S. and around
the world." Ecochlor's systems have been specifically
designed to safely and economically eliminate the worldwide
transfer of aquatic invasive species. These foreign invaders
pose severe environmental, economic and public health issues
and are now a major international concern. For over a
hundred years, oceangoing vessels have been designed to
carry ballast water to facilitate stability and safe
maneuverability. Since the 1970's, however, with the advent
of larger, faster ships and the globalization of trade, the
amount of ballast water being used and discharged around the
world has increased dramatically."
International standards requiring the treatment of ballast
water are currently being adopted, and in the U.S. a number
of states have passed, or are in the process of passing,
laws mandating the treatment of ballast water.
About
Ecochlor
Ecochlor, founded in 2001, has developed a proprietary
ballast water treatment system to provide a global solution
to the transfer of aquatic invasive species. Ecochlor's
system, the Ecopod(TM) Ballast Water Treatment System, has
been patented in the U.S., and other patents are pending in
the U.S. and internationally.
Web
site:
http://www.ecochlor.com/
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