INDUSTRY TRENDS Zimpro Inc. has acquired Adrian Manufacturing and Research Div. of Adrian Construction Corp., in order to enter the incinerator business, and made a marketing agreement with D. R. Sperry and Co. to market filter presses for dewatering municipal sI ud ge. Roy F. Weston, Inc. has established a branch office at Silver Spring, Md., to provide environmental consulting services throughout Maryland. Robert P. Relyea will manage the branch office. VTN Corp., Irvine, Calif., will complete an environmental impact report relative to NRG NuFuel Co.'s landfill gas processing system on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif. This will be southern California's first landfill gas processing plant. The Electric Power Research InstiPalo Alto, Calif., tute (EPRI), awarded a $455,000, two-year contract to Power Technologies, Inc., Schenectady, N.Y., to extend a research program on the design of very compact overhead transmission lines. I
ECOKEL, Santa Rosa, Calif., a joint venture of Ecodyne and The M.W. Kellogg Co., received a contract, worth about $20 million, including options, to design, supply, and build two natural draft cooling towers for Commonwealth Edison Co. Gray Pollution Control Systems, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., has signed a $3,646,000 contract with New York City's Environmental Protection Administration to rehabilitate and modernize the city's Southwest Brooklyn incinerator. Robintech, Inc., Fort Worth, Tex., made a joint venture with Nicaraguan investors in Tubos de Centroamerica, S A . , Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan firm will produce PVC pipe and fittings for electrical conduits and pressure and irrigation pipes.
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Continental Oil Co. (Conoco, Stamford, Conn.) received the Department of Commerce's "savEnergy" award from Commerce Secretary Frederick Dent. Hoyt Manufacturing Corp. (Westport, Mass.) supplied Western Electric Corp. (Weco) with a trichloroethylene solvent recovery system that helped Weco win the environmental improvement award from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts. Hesston Corp. (Hesston, Kan.) sold a custom-made "Incinerotor" rotary incinerator to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the department's screw worm eradication project at Mission, Tex. Cost was $119,471. Emission Abatement, Inc. (Houston, Tex.) has announced that six new vapor recovery processes the firm developed are now available for Iicensing in the U.S. and abroad. The American Petroleum Institute (API, Washington, D.C.) voted to allocate $2.31 million toward APl's 1975 research program for improvement and protection of the environment. Benham-Blair 81 Affiliates, Inc. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), a large design and engineering firm, has acquired the firm of Wildman & Morris (San Francisco, Calif.). Wildman & Morris designed the $1-million control house "nerve center" for the Standard Oil (California) $200 million low-sulfur fuel oil refinery. Chemfix, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) has licensed Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) to employ the Chemfix liquid waste disposal process under special circumstances at BFI sites. The Orville Simpson Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio), which manufactures screening machines and liquids/solids separators, has changed its corporate name to ROTEX, Inc.
Tracor, Inc., has received a $3.9 million contract from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command to continue its current program of assisting the Navy in procurement of sonar systems for missile-carrying submarines.
Georgia-Pacific (Portland, Ore.), defendant in a mercury pollution case involving Bellingham Bay, Wash., since 1970, has recently had this case against the company dismissed. The case was never brought to trial.
Combustion Engineering, Inc. will defer major expansion of its Chattanooga, Tenn., nuclear manufacturing facility because of deferred delivery dates requested by a number of utilities. A moderate expansion is still in the works, however.
Ingersoll-Rand's IMPCO Division (Nashua, N.H.) is licensed to use the Scott Paper Company's data and experience concerning bleaching of wood pulp and other cellulosic material with ozone, alkali, and chlorine dioxide, for lowest effluent potential.
