INDUSTRY TRENDS The Ben Holt Co. (Pasadena, Calif.) has been awarded a $115,000 contract by EPA to prepare a manual to serve as an air pollution field surveillance and enforcement guide for petroleum refineries and natural gas processing plants.
bus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. The unit will be designated generator 6 in C&SOE's Conesville, Ohio, generation station. The unit, scheduled to begin operation in 1977, will burn pulverized coal and generate in excess of 300 million Ib of steam/hr.
Baker Commodities, Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.) has purchased a majority interest in Pollution Control Engineering, Inc. of Downey, Calif. Baker Commodities is a rendering firm, and Pollution Control Engineering specializes in engineering and installation of water treatment systems.
Columbia Cement Co. has completed installation of electrostatic precipitators for the control of particulate emissions at its Zanesville, Ohio, portland cement plant. Precipitators replace mechanical particulate collections devices installed in 1958. The $2.3 million project began 18 months ago.
American Air Filter Co., InC. (Louisville, Ky.) has signed an agreement to acquire General Dynamic's Dynapure oil mist collector line for cash. Dynapure products are designed for collecting unwanted mist from individual process machines in the metal, food, and textile manufacturing industries. Sales of Dynapure products are less than $1 million annually.
Dearborn Chemical Div., Chemed Corp., has organized Environmental Assessment Associates to provide environmental impact studies. The organization consists of a network of scientific teams qualified to make indepth studies and environmental assessments of engineering projects for consulting engineers, governmental bodies, and conservation groups.
Roy F. Weston, Inc. and Hach Chemical Co. have agreed in principle to merge Weston and Stack, Inc., into Hach for an undisclosed amount of cash. Hach will be purchasing the assets and assuming liabilities of the business, including the lease obligation for the present operating facilities in Malvern, Pa. Weston and Stack has sales of approximately $600,000 for the year ending December 31, 1972. International Plastics, Inc. (Colwich, Kan.) has formed a new company, Micro-Por, Inc., as a wholly owned subsidiary to manufacture and market its patent-protected microporous tubing, sheet, and rod from thermoplastic material. Products are used in reverse osmosis and water treatment, aeration, and oxygenation. Wilputte Corp. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) has been awarded a contract in excess of a million dollars for engineering and materials supply for a waste effluent control system to be installed at the Coke Oven Div. of Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point, Md., plant. The process will use a closed recirculated wash oil system to cool coke oven gas, thereby eliminating the discharge of contaminated salt water. The facility is expected to be operational by spring of 1974.
Neptune Meter Co. (Atlanta, Ga.) has acquired Del-Pak Corp. (Corvallis, Ore.), a marketer of waste water treatment equipment. Purchase was in exchange for Neptune common stock. Del-Pak will be integrated into the operations of Neptune MicroFLOC, Inc. SCA Services, Inc. (Boston, Mass.) has been awarded a four-year, $2.5million waste service contract by the city of Fort Pierce, Fla. Beginning this October, SCA will collect all of the residential and commercial waste generated by the city's 35,000 peode. Arthur G. McKee & Co. has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract by Kennecott Copper Corp.'s Utah Div. for pollution control facilities at Kennecott's Utah smelter plant in Magna, Utah. The environmental control effort poses several technical challenges since the plant has a variety of emission sources amidst mountainous terrain coupled with frequent downdrafts. In addition, work must be scheduled to permit the smelter to remain in operation during the construction phase of the project. Combustion Engineering, Inc. has been awarded a $1 6-million contract to design, fabricate, and erect a 450-MW steam generator by ColumCircle No. 27 on Readers' Service Card
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