INDUSTRY TRENDS Emcon Assoclates (San Jose, Calif.), an environmental consulting firm, has opened a new branch office at Oak Brook, Ill., to serve East Coast and Midwest clients.
International Ecology Systems Corp. (Chicago, Ill.) has purchased the assets and work in progress of Freeman Laboratories, Inc. Freeman makes pollution monitors.
ERCO Industries Ltd., a Canadian component of Envirotech, announced that Great Lakes Paper Co. (Thunder Bay, Ont.) will use ERCO’s salt-recovery process as a step to eliminate bleached kraft pulp mill water pollution.
A Salem Corp. subsidiary, Wilputte Corp. (Murray Hill, N.J.) has a multi-million dollar contract to rehabilitate the No. 4 coke battery at Allied Chemical’s Ashland, Ky., coke plant.
Fisher-Klosterman has installed a special system to collect glass and enamel dust from resistor manufacturing at the Ohmite Manufacturing Co. Division of North American Philips, Inc. (Nashua, N.H.). Davis Water & Waste Industries, Inc. (Thomasville, Ga.) has consolidated its Davco Division (Thomasville) and Defiance Division (Tallevast, Fla.)
Olson Laboratories (Anaheim, Calif.) has received a $140,000, 8-mo contract from EPA to develop exhaust emission data from light-duty vehicles (model years 1972-1975). Betz Environmental Englneers, Inc. has a I-yr EPA contract to evaluate the current worldwide technology for controlling emissions from blast furnace cast houses.
Research-Cottrell, Inc. has received an order in excess of $15 million from American Electric Power System for design and materials for three electrostatic precipitators.
The Mlnges Assoclates, Inc. (Farmington, Conn.) has done a value analysis/ engineering test study of a $7.5 million advanced wastewater treatment plant at Plainville, Conn., for EPA, and has identified cost savings.
Peabody Gallon Corp.’s subsidiary, Peabody Engineered Systems, has a $20 million air pollution control order for flue gas desulfurization from Alabama Electric Cooperative Inc.
Koppers Co., Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) has recently completed the second phase of a combined water and wastewater facility at Palm Beach County, Fla. That phase added 1.5 mgd for waste treatment, and 6 mgd for water.
Camp Dresser & McKee lnternatlonal Inc. will prepare long-range development programs for water supply, wastewater facilities, and drainage systems for the city of Surabaja, Indonesia. Dames & Moore (Los Angeles, Calif.) is preparing an environmental report on the continued operation maintenance of the existing Muskingum River (Ohio) Basin flood control system for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Environmental Measurement Systems (Seattle, Wash.) announced that 24 of its ultrasonic manhole monitor units, for wastewater monitoring in sewer lines, were purchased by the District of Columbia. The Manufacturing Chemists Association (Washington, D.C.) has let $500,000 worth of contracts to do research into impacts, if any, of fluorocarbons on the earth’s atmosphere. Hercules Inc. (Wilmington, Del.) will market chitins and chitosan, a cationic polymer from crustacean shells, for Marine Commodities International (MCI, Brownsville, Tex.) worldwide. Hercules also has an option to buy all of MCl’s stock. Chitins are used as flocculents and thickeners.
Andco Inc. has a sublicensing agreement with AB Svenska Maskinverken (KalhaII, Sweden) giving the Swedish firm rights to market the Andco-Torrax municipal waste conversion process in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. SF Air Control, Inc. (Old Greenwich, Conn.) is U.S. marketer for a new type municipal solid waste conveying system developed by AB Svenska Flaktfabriken. The system is being installed in two of Stockholm’s suburbs, and uses pneumatic conveyance. Stanley Consultants, Inc. is providing full engineering services to alleviate pollution and flood control problems for Lake Chicot, Ark. The U S . Army Corps of Engineers (Vicksburg, Miss.) is directing the project. Corning Glass Works (Corning, N.Y.) has shifted solar energy research emphasis to finding a cost-effective solar collector, and will not produce collectors unless they contribute data necessary to the research program. Frost & Sullivan, lnc. (New York, N.Y.) foresees solar heating and cooling as a $1.25 billion industry by 1980; and as a $10 billion industry by 1985.
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