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Kemira to buy Cytec's Water
Treatment Business
 Helsinki,
Finland -- Kemira Oyj is acquiring Cytec’s water treatment
chemical business. The seller is an American chemical
company, Cytec Industries Inc.
In 2005, the revenue of the Cytec
water treatment chemical business totaled approx. EUR 270
million. The purchase price is approx. EUR 190 million. The
acquisition will have an EPS enhancing effect starting 2007.
With this acquisition, Kemira’s revenue in the water
treatment chemical business will almost double and total
approx. EUR 650 million.
Cytec’s water treatment chemicals
product line consists primarily of products in industrial
and municipal waste water treatment. The acquisition
includes five production plants located in the US, the
Netherlands and England, with businesses in the US, South
America, Asia and Europe. The total number of employees is
approx. 480, including sales, marketing, manufacturing, R&D
and technical services personnel.
“This acquisition is in line with
Kemira’s growth strategy and is a major step to expand our
market potential and growth opportunities in the water
treatment chemical business. With this acquisition, we can
significantly broaden our current product portfolio and gain
greater geographical presence in key markets and inside key
customer segments”, says Mats Jungar, President, Kemwater
Business Area in Kemira. “Cytec completes our current
service and product portfolio and improves our strategic
position globally. This acquisition will strengthen our
position as a global leading supplier of coagulants and
flocculants”, he continues.
“Our strategy is clear, founded
on organic growth and acquisitions. The water treatment
chemical business is a business of the future. Increasing
environmental awareness and regulations, as well as the need
to minimize waste and optimize costs in water treatment
processes are causing demand to increase”, says Mats Jungar.
"What differentiates Kemira from its competitors is the
company’s focus on a customer solution approach in R&D so
that customers are involved in development, service and
training", he continues.
Kemira’s water treatment chemical
business is the leading global supplier of inorganic
coagulants. It offers customized solutions for water
treatment and sludge treatment for municipal and private
water treatment plants and industry. In 2005, Kemira’s water
treatment chemical business had revenue of EUR 353 million
and a payroll of approx. 1,500 people. It is present in 30
countries.
For further information visit:
http://www.kemira.com/
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Unmanned Arsenic Monitor
Undergoes EPA Scrutiny
 Fareham,
UK -- Environmental and diagnostic specialists, MTI
diagnostics have completed a stringent evaluation of its OVA
5000 system at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)
Vineland Chemical Company Superfund site in Cumberland
County, New Jersey for 24 hour on-line monitoring of arsenic
in the effluent from the wastewater treatment plant.
The EPA is responsible for the cleanup of the site while the
US Army Corps have evaluated the instrument performance in
wastewater. The purpose of the instrument installation is to
include the automated analysis into their other automated
operations, allowing the operators to monitor plant
performance when it is unmanned, while ensuring the effluent
limits for arsenic in the wastewater are met.
Large scale arsenic contamination of the 54-acre site stems
from the disposal of waste associated with herbicide
manufacturing. Although the extent of the contamination is
unknown, run-off from the site has contaminated a local
river and lake, as well as a large area of groundwater. The
whole remediation process is expected to last 30 years,
beginning in 2000.
During the evaluation period, the system was required to
operate continuously for 60 days with no failures. Sample
testing was performed in duplicate during the 60 day period.
Importantly, OVA 5000 results met the required standard –
within an acceptable range when compared to the reference
method used at a specified off-site laboratory.
For further information please contact:
MTI Diagnostics - UK
Telephone: +44 (0)1489 898 600
Fax: +44 (0)1489 582 327
Email: mti@lab-21.com
Web site:
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GE Energy Financial Invests in
GA Wastewater Plant
 ATLANTA,
GA & STAMFORD, CT -- Expanding into an industry requiring
major infrastructure investment, GE Energy Financial
Services announced today that it has formed a team
concentrating on the water market and that it has made its
first investment: $18 million in a state-of-the-art
wastewater reclamation plant near Atlanta.
The
new water team offers structured equity and customized debt
finance for existing assets and projects under development
in the commercial, industrial and municipal infrastructure
water, reuse and wastewater treatment markets worldwide.
"We've
entered the water investing market because it's a major
growth opportunity for us, takes advantage of our strengths
in project finance and our leveraged balance sheet, and
benefits from GE's expertise in water technology," said Alex
Urquhart, President and CEO of GE Energy Financial Services.
"It is also in the spirit of GE's ecomagination initiative,
our pledge to help our customers solve environmental
problems, in this case by increasing water supplies."
The
water team at GE Energy Financial Services estimates the
worldwide water private project finance market at $50
billion, as water scarcity and quality concerns intensify.
"We
approach the water market with a long-term investment
horizon, backed by GE's expertise and reputation in
industry-leading technology and solutions," said Kevin
McCarthy, Managing Director and leader of GE Energy
Financial Services' water team. "We will invest in projects
using a wide range of technology."
The
team's first investment, for a 90 percent limited
partnership role, is in the Cauley Creek Water Reclamation
Facility, owned by privately held Cauley Creek Water
Reclamation LLC. The four-year-old facility, 30 miles
northeast of Atlanta near rapidly growing communities that
put increasing pressure on wastewater plants, was designed
to look like a barn to blend in with its pastoral
surroundings. Its highly treated water is so clean it's used
for irrigating residential developments, churches, golf
courses and other businesses, reducing demand on the
drinking water system as well as withdrawals from the
Chattahoochee River.
With a
capacity of five million gallons per day and a long-term
wastewater treatment contract with Fulton County in a
public/private partnership, Cauley Creek is the largest
satellite water reclamation plant in North America using
technology by ZENON, a company GE acquired last month.
Zenon's ZeeWeed(R) ultrafiltration immersed membrane
replaces the solids separation function of clarifiers and
sand filers in conventional plants.
About
GE Energy Financial Services
GE
Energy Financial Services' 300 experts invest globally with
a long-term view, across the capital spectrum and the energy
and water industries, to help their customers and GE grow.
With $13 billion in assets, GE Energy Financial Services,
based in Stamford, Connecticut, invests more than $3 billion
annually in two of the world's most capital-intensive
industries, energy and water.
More
information:
www.geenergyfinancialservices.com
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Water
Research : Still learning to clean up after ourselves
 Brussels,
Belgium -- Ancient Romans showed Europeans how some town
planning and technology could banish unsightly,
disease-spreading wastewater to the underbelly of major towns.
But more than two millennia have past and still some towns in
Europe do not have proper wastewater treatment facilities.
Finding more efficient, cleaner ways to treat wastewater remains
a major goal and one which the EU has invested heavily in
through four projects, involving membrane bioreactors (MBR), now
clustered together into the MBR-Network.
We can’t live without water. But the
fact remains that more than 1.2 billion people still do not have
access to safe drinking water and over 2.4 billion lack basic
sanitation. And the developing world is not alone in tackling
this problem. Pollution, over-exploitation of natural resources
and poor waste treatment is also something faced by European
water authorities, prompting the need for huge investment.
“Advanced water technologies,
powerful management tools, monitoring, automation and control
systems, as well as improved source control instruments are
essential to cope with a demanding integrated water management
framework,” notes the Water-related Research page on the
Commission’s Environment Research website.
Meeting this task head on are four EU
projects which have agreed to pool their efforts – under the
MBR-Network – to develop state-of-the-art technologies for
treating European wastewater. The technology under investigation
is called membrane separation of activated sludge, more commonly
referred to as a ‘membrane bioreactor’, which also separates
sludge using nano-scale filters.
The projects – Amadeus, Eurombra,
MBR-Train and Puratreat – are all supported by the EU’s Sixth
Framework Programme (FP6) for research to the combined tune of
€9 million. According to the consortium managing the network,
this is the largest coordinated research initiative in the world
dedicated to MBR technology. The projects are running in
parallel between 2005 and 2009.
No time to waste
Chief among the goals for the
projects, and the Network in general, is to ensure that
technological breakthroughs and improvements in treatment
processes are delivered through greater synergy among the 50
European companies and institutions actively involved in the
Network. Working together from the outset, it is believed, will
ensure that the new developments are taken up and more widely
accepted and implemented across the Union, where some
differences in current treatment are still in evidence.
For example, according to a press
statement, the Commission sent written warnings in 2004 to
France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United
Kingdom for failing to meet the December 2000 deadline for
installing proper treatment for wastewater discharges from
cities and towns with more than 15 000 inhabitants.
“Inadequate wastewater treatment”, it
explained, “is a major cause of water pollution and represents a
serious risk to human health and the environment.” These are
problems addressed in the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive,
which covers nutrient-based, bacterial and viral pollution
caused by urban wastewater.
Very early MBR techniques date back
to the 1960s. But it was not until new Japanese developments in
materials science saw breakthroughs in what were called
‘submerged membrane modules’ which simplified the purification
process and cut back on capital and operation costs. Today,
after early units using MBR were introduced in the UK, Germany
and France, Europe lays claim to the largest MBR plant in the
world, located in Kaarst, Germany, which serves a population of
80 000.
Conventional biological wastewater
systems, separating the sludge from the treated effluents by
sedimentation, are limited especially when the going gets tough
with complicated industrial wastewater. According to experts,
MBR technology has the advantage of combining a biological
reactor with advanced membrane filtration to produce the most
advanced biological treatment available.
European Commission's
Directorate-General for Research
Web site:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/
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