INDUSTRY TRENDS Chas. 1. Main, Inc., Boston, Mass., a multifaceted engineering firm which also works on environmental matters, is relocating and expanding its office in Charlotte. N.C. Scott Environmental Technology, Inc., Plumsteadville, Pa., received a renewal contract from EPA to help establish new air pollution source performance and emission standards. Research-Cottrell, Inc., will design and build two natural-draft cooling towers for Allegheny Power System near Eureka, W.Va., for about $12 million. The Conference Board (New York City) said that foreign companies announced 72 new investments in U S . manufacturing facilities during the third quarter of 1974. About 40% of these investments involved new plant construction. Clapp & Poliak, Inc. (New York City), largest industrial exposition management company in the U.S., is expanding its operations to Europe and Asia. The firm has offices now in London and Tokyo, and has scheduled industrial shows for London, Tokyo, and Dusseldorf for 1975. Du Pont made a joint agreement with Standard Havens, Inc., to manufacture and market a new air pollution control system that will capture both noxious gases and particulate matter without water pollution. Ingersoll-Rand will provide air starters for Alco V-18 series 251 diesel engines to be used for back-up generating stations designed to operate nuclear reactor containment pumps at a Public Service of New Jersey nuclear power plant. Ric-Wil, Inc., Brecksville, Ohio, has acquired exclusive licenses under new patents relating to electrical heat for pipelines by the “skin effect” tracing method. Met-Pro Systems, Inc., has been awarded a $520,000 contract for manufacturing 32 lightweight portable water treatment plants for the Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio. The plants each produce 420 gph of potable water from raw water supplies. PCI Ozone Corp. will supply ozone generating equipment for an 18-mgd water treatment plant to be built for the City of Monroe, Mich. This plant 1122
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is the largest in the U.S., in operation or under construction, to use ozone treatment. Envirotech Corp. has dedicated the new facilities of its Eimco BSP Division at Belmont, Calif. Harold P. Cahill, director of municipal construction for the U.S. EPA, was the guest speaker at the ceremony. The new 76,000 ft* facility will employ 330. The Badger Co., Inc. completed the largest single fatty amine plant in the world for Amrak Co., at Morris, 111. The plant incorporated the “most modern pollution control systems.” Basic Engineering, Inc., Chicago, I II., is completing installation of a modular incinerator system with the capacity to dispose of 2000 Ib/hr of factory, office, and cafeteria waste matter at Central Steel & Wire Co., Ch icago . The Resource Sciences Corp., Tulsa, Okla., has been awarded a contract for a $13 million segment of a $30 million wastewater treatment facility at the Baton Rouge, La., refinery of Exxon. TechEcology, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., received a nearly $300,000 contract to design, manufacture, and install five meteorological systems and towers for the Alabama Power Co. to perform meteorological evaluation and analysis of environmental parameters. Poly Con Corp. has two contracts to supply 18 venturi scrubbers to Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp., Baton Route, La. The scrubbers will handle over 300,000 acfm of dustladen air each day. Universal Oil Products Co. (UOP) will supply Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd., makers of Mazda cars, with catalyst for emission control systems in cars powered by conventional engines. Dravo Corp. has installed singlepackage outdoor units to meet all plant environmental system requirements (for in-plant conditions) for the Florsheim Shoe Co., Kirksville, Mo. Refuse Energy Systems Co. (RESCO), a joint venture of Wheelabrator-Frye and the M. DeMatteo Construction Co., will convert waste to energy for nine Greater Boston towns at a privately financed $31 million RESCO plant now being built at Saugus, Mass.
Grumman Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., designed and built the gondola for a balloon to hold four men and 3000 Ib of instruments. Purpose is to study the atmosphere up to 14,000 ft, the “region which is crucial to man’s well-being.” The gondola was built for the Atomic Energy Commission, the Army’s Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory, and the National Geographic Society. Marcona Corp., San Francisco, Calif., is marketing a new, self-contained mobile version of its portable materials handling device, “DY NAJET,” to transform settled materials into slurry for pipeline handling. Albert C. Martin & Associates, Los Angeles, Calif., has designed the first of three energy-saving office towers to open near Seattle-Tacoma Airport, Wash. The design features methods to prevent the sun’s energy from entering the building. Marine Construction & Design Co., Seattle, Wash., received an order from the Petroleum Industry Coastal Emergency Cooperative for a 40-ft skimming boat capable of recovering oil spills in harbors and coastal waters of southern California. Environmental Measurement Systems, Seattle, Wash., provided the U.S. Coast Guard with a “WSM 350” monitoring system designed to detect oil and other hazardous polluting substances in water. Environmental Pollution Processors Corp. (EPPCO), has been organized at Hudson, Ohio. The firm is headed by Richard Watt, an expert in heat recovery and transfer. The firm will market heat pipe systems to help to ease the energy crunch. Zurn Industries, Inc., together with Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, will design and construct a large hyperbolic natural draft cooling tower system for the Duquesne Light Co. at Shippingport, Pa. Research-Cottrell, Inc., will do an $11 million project to supply two SO2 removal systems for a southwestern utility. Research-Cottrell will have no construction responsibilities. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is involved in projects to prove that shore-protection devices built from worn-out tires will answer serious erosion and wave control problems. Tests are being run on the Atlantic coast, and on Lake Michigan.
