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- Vivendi Announces Agreement to Sell Filtration & Separations
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- This Month's Ask Tom!
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Fourth
Year as a Sponsor
Upcoming WEF
Specialty Conferences!
Don't miss out on the latest water
quality information, technologies, and new developments related to
your field!
WEF's
Specialty Conferences bring you the most up-to-date innovations and
solutions, presented by expert speakers, and unparalleled networking
opportunities with water quality professionals from around the
world.
Here are the latest Specialty
Conferences being offered to you - Register Online Today!
Attend North America's premier
conference on Disinfection. The disinfection niche is by far the
most continually changing segment of the municipal water and
wastewater field. This conference will address these changes and
help attendees develop invaluable industry contacts. Distinguished
professor Dr. Charles P. Gerba from the University of Arizona will
deliver the keynote address. His talk "Disinfection from
Toilets to Coffee Cups" will address the wide spectrum of
topics and issues affecting the disinfection field. Two
preconference workshops scheduled on Sunday will kick off the
conference - one on biosolids disinfection and the other on new
methods. Hot technical sessions jam packed with the latest
information from Disinfection experts from all over the world will
run from Sunday through Wednesday. A great social event "beach
party" will round out the conference on Tuesday evening.
Join
environmental professionals at Watershed 2002 for an in-depth look
into integrated resource management and environmental protection
principles using watershed-based approaches, and for discussions on
Everglades restoration activities and the recovery and long-term
preservation of this International Biosphere Reserve and World
Heritage Site.
Focusing
on Privatization, Innovation and Optimization, this year’s 16th
Annual Residuals and Biosolids Management Conference promises to be
loaded with beneficial and timely topic discussions. This year’s
technical program features 19 extensive sessions focusing on both
international and domestic issues facing the residuals and biosolids
industry, including topics on: land application, composting, storage
and handling, odor control, regulatory issues, privatization,
thickening and dewatering, biosolids success stories, stabilization
and thermal processes. Complimenting the comprehensive technical
program, three Preconference Workshops, conducted by leading experts
in the field, explore subjects such as the latest news and
happenings on pathogens, designing real automation systems, and
dewatering and digestion basics. Combine this with six Facility
Tours and the Exposition, and you will find the most comprehensive,
cutting-edge Residuals and Biosolids Management conference to date
and an essential component to your professional development.
Due
to overwhelming demand, this eighth joint specialty conference on
water and wastewater management is now an annual event! Managers
from all levels, and from large, medium-sized, and small systems
will focus on strategies for continuous improvement in today's
competitive environment.
Highlights
include: Qualserve Benchmarking Training Course - KM 101: A
Knowledge Management Overview; Preconference Workshops on
Infrastructure Security and Improving Utility Performance Through
Effective Performance Measurement, and AWWA Efficient Utilities:
e-Procurement for the Water Industry
In
Addition to WEF's Specialty Conference Series, We are Excited to
Announce...
Wastewater Infrastructure
Security Workshop Series
WEF is pleased to announce a new resource to help utilities address
security concerns - a series of US EPA-sponsored training workshops
to be held at locations throughout the country during March - May
2002. Developed for wastewater utility managers, these one-day
workshops will address critical areas of concern including how to
mitigate security threats and how to react in the event of a crisis.
Registration is now open for the first workshop, to be held in
Boston on March 6. Go to http://www.wef.org/Publicinfo/WEFsecurity.jhtml
for more information.
For more information contact: Water Environment Federation
601 Wythe Street
Alexandria, Virginia U.S.A. 22314
Telephone: 1-800-666-0206 or +1-703-684-2452
Website: www.wef.org
E-mail: csc@wef.org
$360
Million Sale
Vivendi Announces Agreement to Sell
Filtration & Separations Group
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14,
2002--USFilter, a subsidiary of Vivendi Environnement (Paris
Bourse:VIE) (NYSE:VE) announced that it has entered into an
agreement to sell its Filtration and Separations Group (FSG)
business to Pall Corporation, East Hills, N.Y., (NYSE:PLL) for a
total cash consideration of $360 million.
FSG specializes in industrial
separations technology including membrane media, consumable
cartridges, screening technology and custom process equipment. Total
annual sales are approximately $270 million.
The sale furthers Vivendi
Environnement's announced strategy to divest non-core assets, and
focus on its core environmental and water-wastewater businesses.
Total proceeds from the disposition
of USFilter's filtration and separations business, including the
sale of the Johnson Screens business late last year, are
approximately $500 million. The transaction is expected to be
completed by the end of March, and is subject only to normal
regulatory approvals.
USFilter, Palm Desert, Calif., is
North America's largest water company providing comprehensive water
and wastewater systems and services to commercial, industrial,
municipal and residential customers. Vivendi Environnement,
comprised of Vivendi Water (worldwide water products and services),
Onyx (solid waste and industrial services), Dalkia (energy
services), Connex (transportation) and FCC (Spanish company engaged
in environmental and construction-related industries), is the
largest environmental services company in the world.
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$1.8
Biilion Deal
GE Specialty Materials to Acquire
BetzDearborn
New Business Will Expand GE Into New
Area and Be a Global Growth Platform
WILTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb.
12, 2002--In a move that will launch GE into a new business segment
and add $1 billion in annual sales, GE Specialty Materials, a unit
of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced that it has
entered into an agreement to acquire the water treatment services
business of BetzDearborn from Hercules Incorporated (NYSE:HPC).
This transaction, which is subject to
regulatory approval, is expected to close in spring 2002. The
purchase price is $1.8 billion.
BetzDearborn is a global service
company providing engineered chemical treatment of water and process
systems in industrial applications. BetzDearborn is the second
largest industrial water treatment service business in the world.
Globally, the water treatment business segment is a $6 billion
opportunity.
"BetzDearborn is a great fit for
our expanding business," said William Woodburn, president and
chief executive officer of GE Specialty Materials. "GE
Specialty Materials is a growth platform for strong technology and
service content businesses. This acquisition opens the door for GE
to utilize approximately 2,000 experienced BetzDearborn sales
engineers to distribute to their customers innovative products and
services derived from technology used at GE Medical Systems, GE
Power Systems and the GE Global Research Center. Applying GE
technology from these businesses creates the opportunity to offer
customers new, advanced equipment and corrosion diagnostic services.
This is also a technically savvy organization which will quickly
adopt GE's initiatives of Six Sigma and Digitization."
Craig Rogerson, vice president and
general manager of BetzDearborn added, "We look forward to
being a part of the GE team. GE Specialty Materials is a growing and
exciting business. We will build on our traditional commitment to
customer service, give our people opportunity for professional
growth and offer new, exciting technologies to expand our sales and
technical service capabilities to our customers."
BetzDearborn has its global
headquarters in Trevose, Pennsylvania and is a division of Hercules
Incorporated. It has offices in more than 50 countries and
operations throughout the world. It has four regional centers and 25
production plants located in North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe,
and Latin America. BetzDearborn is a leading provider in the
engineered chemical treatment of water and process systems in
industrial, commercial and institutional facilities. Annual sales
are approximately $1 billion.
The BetzDearborn business will be the
fifth component in the GE Specialty Materials portfolio. The GE
Specialty Materials businesses include GE Silicones, GE Specialty
Chemicals, GE Superabrasives and GE Quartz.
GE Specialty Materials (GESM) is a
new platform for growth within GE offering a wide range of products
including fused quartz, polymer additives, silicones and industrial
diamonds. GESM uses technological innovation and Six Sigma to serve
customers in segments as diverse as cosmetics, semi-conductors, oil
drilling, construction and telecommunications. Visit GE Specialty
Materials online at www.gespecialtymaterials.com.
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Water
Treatment
Coagulants &
Flocculants 2002 Conference
Intertech has announced that its
sixth international conference, Coagulants & Flocculants 2002—Global
Market and Technical Opportunities for Water Treatment Chemicals,
will be held on May 22-24, 2002 at the Wyndham Hotel in Chicago,
Illinois.
This conference will focus on
economic, regulatory, market and technical trends for coagulants and
flocculants. This meeting will provide major suppliers and end-users
a common ground for examining opportunities, challenges and
potential solutions impacting the production, marketing and use of
water treatment chemicals.
Water management and engineering
firms, and municipal and industrial users will explore recent
advances in iron- and aluminum-based coagulants, polymers and
specialty precipitants, as well as alternative treatment strategies.
Presentations will also feature case studies from end-use sectors—illustrating
the key opportunities for treatment chemistries in an era of
industry partnerships and mergers.
For more information contact:
Mr. Brian Santos
Conference Program Manager Intertech Conferences
19 Northbrook Drive
Portland, ME 04105
Telephone: 207-781-9618
Fax: 207-781-2150 E-Mail-bsantos@intertechusa.com Website: http://www.intertechusa.com/
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manufacturer of a multimedia sand filter. The only info I have is
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filter is being used to provide drinking water for a camp site in
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I am looking for a supplier of
plastic random dump type filter media. I have a small municipality
looking to change this type of media in a draft aerator they have at
their water plant. The current media is approximately 3-inches
spherical.
This
week's photo is of installation of
a Headworks bar screen at Donohue Industries, Sheldon Mills,
Houston, Texas. The
dual wash water system of this type of screen eliminates the need
for rotating brush assembly.
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Position in central Georgia (not
Atlanta). Salary range $43k - $55K. Growing engineering
consulting firm specializing in solid waste management has the opportunity
of a lifetime for a new or recent Civil Engineering graduate.
Would prefer an EIT who wishes to
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