industry trends General Motors’ Saginaw Steering Gear division has put a closed-loop system into operation for recycling and reusing more than a million gallons of industrial oils annually. The system is on line at GM’S Chevrolet manufacturing complex in Saginaw, MI. Republic Steel will begin work on five new air pollution control projects a t its Cleveland district steel plant. Republic will spend more than $3 million to upgrade control facilities for basic oxygen furnaces and open hearth furnaces and the coking plant. Work will be complete by the middle of 1973.
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Laboratoria Ostrea, Inc., is a new company formed to provide aquatic environmental services. The company, located in Jupiter, FL, will concentrate on ecological impact studies, environmental education programs, and maricultural services. Research-Cottrell has received a n order to install two electrostatic precipitator complexes to control catalyst emissions from fluid catalytic cracking a t Gulf Oil Co.’s Port Arthur, TX, refinery. Each complex will contain three precipitator units-two for constant use and one for standby use. Water Works Supply & Mfg. Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Certainteed Products Corp., has acquired Vincent Supply Co., a Sacramento, CA, supply house for the water works industry. The Ralph M. Parsons Co. (Los Angeles, CA) has received a contract from the Municipal Sewerage Authority of Guyaquil, Ecuador, to provide engineering and construction supervision for a new $12 million sewerage system for Guyaquil. Combustion Engineering has received a $58 million contract from Georgia Power Co., a subsidiary of the Southern Co., for two 880-MW proprietary Combined circulation steam generators. The units are destined for a new power generation station on the Chattahoochee River near Franklin, GA, about 30 miles southwest of Atlanta. Babcock and Wilcox will provide a twodrum Stirling power boiler for the Pepeekeo, HA, sugar cane mill of the
Hilo Coast Processing Co. The $1.5 million boiler will burn bagasse and generate steam to be used by Hilo Electric Light Co., to produce electricity.
Ecological Research and Development Corp (ECORD, Los Angeles, CA) has been formed to develop and market ecologically related products for industry. First product is a device which rids water systems of corrosion. Jacobs Engineering (Pasadena, CA) and Gulf Degremont, Inc., will jointly build a $6 million waste water treatment facility for Gulf Oil Co.’s Philadelphia, PA, refinery. The system, t o be completed in late 1972 will minimize harmful effects of effluent discharged to the Schuylkill River and the Delaware River Basin. Simpson Lee Paper Co. (San Francisco, CA) will shut down its Everett, WA, pulp and paper mill because operating costs, including necessary investments in environmental control make the operation uneconomical. Systems Associates (Long Beach, CA) and Brown and Caldwell (San Francisco, CA) have been awarded a $700,000 contract to study water resources for more than 650 miles of coastline stretching from Ventura County to north of Eureka, by the California Water Resources Control Board. Bionomic Control Corp. (Rockville, MD) has received a contract from the Municipal Technology Division of EPA to build a new central sanitary facility for the village of Emmonak in Alaska. The unit will provide community bathing, sauna, laundry, and toilet facilities, and perform all sewage and waste disposal operations for a village of 440 people. Scott Research Laboratories (Plumsteadville, PA) has completed a two-year study of air pollution emissions for the National Coil Coaters Association. Bethlehem Mines Corp. has begun construction of two separate baghouse facilities to reduce air pollution from the Company’s Millard lime quarry in Annville, PA. Cost is estimated to be about $2.4 million.
