industry trends
Sybron Corp. (Rochester, N.Y.) will acquire the assets of F.B. Leopold Co. (Zelienpole, Pa.) and its subsidiaries. Leopold is a manufacturer of municipal water treatment equipment and has sales of more than $3 million annually. Certain-Teed Products Corp. (Valley Forge, Pa.) has installed a $100,000 thermal oxidizer on its asphalt processing plant in Kansas City, Mo. The oxidizer will burn particulate matter and smoke that account for 70-75% of the plant’s fume emissions. General Electric Co. (Louisville, Ky.) has built a fume incinerator to destroy hydrocarbon emissions from baking processes at its wire enameling plant in Shelbyville, Ind. The equipment was built by GE’S Industrial Heating Dept., which is also located at Shelbyville. Heil Process Equipment Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) has supplied a pickling room to Allegheny Ludlum Steel at its plant in Dunkirk, N.Y. The room is equipped with a Heil fume scrubbing system for which the scrubbing liquid is rinse water from the steel-pickling process. Environmental Research & Technology Inc. (Walthani, Mass.) will analyze proposed land use plans for the Hackensack Meadowlands in New Jersey under a $110,000 contract with the state. ERT will evaluate the air pollution potential inherent in each of the plans with a view to arriving at an optimum development plan. APCO-EPA will pick up $100,000 of the tab. Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. (Toronto, Ont.) and Cominco Ltd. have announced a joint research program aimed at developing a pollution-free hydrometallurgical process for recovery of copper from sulfide concentrates. The program will cost “several million dollars” and is scheduled to take two to three years. 636 Environmental Science & Technology
Colt Industries (Beloit, Wis.) will provide a shipboard sewage treatment system for service aboard a ferryboat on the Wood’s Hole-Nantucket/ Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., run. The equipment to be placed aboard the Uncatena is rated at 5800 gpd and will be installed in the fall when the vessel is enlarged and modernized. Thiokol Chemical Corp. (Bristol, Pa.) has been awarded a $584,000 contract by the U.S. Navy to develop and demonstrate an advanced marine sewage treatment system. Thiokol’s system uses nonbiological techniquessolids are removed mechanically and incinerated; dissolved contaminants are destroyed by electrophotochemical oxidation. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Bethlehem, Pa.) has authorized funding for a $2.4 million additional air pollution control facility at its Seattle, Wash., plant. The facility will consist of a baghouse to handle the 10% of emissions not removed by the presently operating baghouse, and will collect emissions produced during the charging of raw materials to electric furnaces. Research-Cottrell (Bound Brook, N.J.) has announced that it has reached an agreement in principle to acquire OxyCatalyst (West Chester, Pa.), subject to approval by both boards of directors and by 0-c’s shareholders. The acquisition will give R-c capability in the area of catalytic treatment of gaseous emissions. Rollins-Purle, Inc. (Wilmington, Del.) will build a 250,000 gpd industrial waste treatment plant in the Chicago area. Preliminary plans and market studies for the plant are complete. The company presently has plants in New Jersey, Louisiana, and Texas. Monsanto Biodize Systems (Great Neck, N.Y.) has built a 75,000 gpd waste water treatment unit for the Ebinger Baking Co.3 new pie and
cake product plant in Melville, L.I. The treatment process consists of grease-cracking, activated sludge and tertiary filtration. Ebinger has a $130,000 grant from WQO-EPA to study the process over a 22-month period.
Finnigan Corp. and System Industries, Inc. (both Sunnyvale, Calif.) have received EPA contracts for more than $325,000 to supply analytical instrumentation and data-handling systems for use in EPA water quality labs. Gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer units will be used to detect and analyze very small concentrations of pesticides, sulfurs, and industrial chemicals. Johns-Manville (Manville, N.J.) is now offering a full range of industrial hygiene engineering services for inplant control of dust, vapors, fumes, and noise. The service will be carried out by the company’s Environmental Control Systems Division. Environmental Waste Control Inc. (Inkster, Mich.) has begun operations in the Detroit area. The firm is setting up an industrial pollution control center incorporating a 300,000-gal capacity processing plant. EWC will collect and treat industrial wastes and will emphasize recycling where economically justifiable. Republic Steel Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) has an $lS-million waste water treatment system at its new flat rolling mill complex in Cleveland. The system treats and recycles 100 million gpd and uses cooling towers. It is located on a 5l/,-acre site. Georgia-Pacific (Portland, Ore.) will use an unusual form of air pollution control at its wallboard plant in Grand Rapids, Mich. While a scrubbing system will capture most airborne gypsum dust for recycling, the scrubbed air will be forced through a fine water mist in three miles of abandoned gypsum mine tunnels before final discharge.
Camp Dresser & McKee (Boston, Mass.) has been engaged by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Resources to aid the department in planning a statewide program for waste and water quality management. Specific areas to be covered in the study are coal mine wastes, industrial wastes, and possible consolidation of independent, small treatment plants in the state. Marathon Oil Co. (Findlay, Ohio) will consolidate its air and water conservation activities into a single division to make them more effective within the company and more responsive to the public’s needs. The division will be split into two groups-the environmental policy committee, which will formulate policy for long-range planning, and the environmental control advisory committee, which will review and recommend solutions to company-related conservation problems. Chemical Construction Corporation (CHEMICO) will design a gas cleaning system for a basic oxygen furnace at Algoma Steel Corp.’s Sault Sainte Marie plant in Ontario, Canada. CHEMICO‘S design will feature two twinventuri scrubbers, guaranteed to remove particulate matter from effluent gases to 0.02 grain per standard cubic foot or less. CHEMICO (N.Y.) is owned by Boise Cascade. Kamloops Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd. (B.C., Canada), a subsidiary of Weyerhauser, will build a mountain-top stack system which will carry flue gases from mill operations on a valley floor to a dispersal point 800 f t above the plant for dispersal of water vapor over temperature inversions which sometimes cause smog. The stack represents about one quarter of the cost of a $22 million environmental protection program underway during expansion of the Kamloops plant. American Hoechst Corp. (Bridgewater, N.J.) will put a new $1.9 million water treatment facility on stream at its Coventry, R.I., plant by late 1972. The Coventry operation produces textile dyes, pigments, intermediates, and bulk pharmaceuticals, and discharges effluent into the Pawtuxet River. The unit will treat approximately 1.5 million gallons daily of process waste water and will occupy 10 acres of the company’s SO-acre site.
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