Standard Methods manual updated
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater has been expanded and revised. Published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation, the publication is in its 22nd printing. One change in the edition is an emphasis on quality assurance/quality control practices. The book is available by calling 888/320-2742, emailing apha@pbd.com or visiting www.aphabookstore.org.
Koch Membrane hires commercial manager
Koch Membrane Systems named Ravichandran Subramanian regional commercial manager. He is responsible for developing the markets for all KMS products in Southeast Asia for both the Water & Wastewater and the Industrial & Life Sciences divisions. Subramanian has 15 years of industry experience in sales, management and product management.
American Flow Control names sales manager
American Flow Control, division of American Cast Iron Pipe Co., named John Hagelskamp division sales manager. He will work with current sales manager Walter L. Cooper, who is retiring in 2013.
MIOX names director of business development
MIOX Corp. hired Cem Candir as director of business development. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA with dual concentration in marketing and strategic management.
AWWA publishes water, wastewater design-build book
The American Water Works Association published Design-Build for Water and Wastewater Projects. The book provides utility managers, operators and water quality staff, city officials and others with information on when design-build project delivery is a good choice for a water or wastewater utility. It also outlines how to plan, procure and execute a DB project. Black & Veatch senior water process engineering manager Holly Shorney-Darby, Ph.D., P.E., managed and edited the book.
TB Wood’s publishes eCatalog
TB Wood’s expanded its eCatalog, www.tbwoods.com, to include its Sure-Flex, Dura-Flex and Form-Flex couplings. The site enables users to select the correct coupling for a specific application.
Xylem offers product app, launches marketing campaign, changes brand
Xylem Inc. launched a mobile app for its online Xylect product selection tool. The app provides access to detailed product information with a smartphone and is available at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xylect/id490601467?mt=8. The company also launched a new marketing campaign, Great Pumping Moments, to promote its Flygt Ready dewatering pumps and introduced Standard Xchange as the name of its industrial heat transfer brand, formerly known as ITT Standard.
Metrohm offers young chemist award
Metrohm will present $10,000 to a graduate, post-graduate or doctoral student in North America performing novel research in the fields of titration, ion chromatography and/or electrochemistry. Candidates can submit their research abstract/summary for consideration at www.metrohmusa.com/youngchemist.
Purafil hires product manager
Purafil named Tom Miles product manager for its Biological Air Treater odor control technology. Miles has 26 years experience in the water and wastewater industry.
Watertronics, Pentair team up on rainwater education
Watertronics and Pentair combined to educate architects, consultants and engineering firms on how they can provide innovative rainwater harvesting systems that result in healthy plants and year-round savings through reduced municipal water use. The website www.rainwaterinnovation.com includes case studies, white papers and video.
CSI Controls’ representative expands territory
The 419 Group LLC expanded its CSI territory, becoming the wholesale factory representative for CSI customers in North and South Carolina. The group also serves as CSI’s representative in Virginia.
Microsol acquires SOLON and subsidiaries
Microsol, a United Arab Emirates-based solar cell manufacturer, acquired components of the insolvent SOLON SE and its subsidiaries, including U.S.-based SOLON Corp. The main sites in Germany, the United States and Italy will be maintained. The purchase price was not disclosed.
Netzsch Pumps names vice presidents
Netzsch Pumps North America named Julio C. Ferreira vice president of sales and John Maguire vice president of operations and product management. Ferreira has 30 years of industry experience. Maguire has been with the company for 20 years, most recently as vice president of sales.
Aqua-Chem forms joint venture with VICEL Group
Aqua-Chem Inc. formed a strategic joint venture with Brazilian-based VICEL Group to manufacture and assemble Aqua-Chem’s freshwater makers at the VICEL facility in Rio Das Ostras. The new company will exceed 60 percent of local content in reverse osmosis desalination systems in the first phase of the production plan, scheduled for the third quarter of 2012.
Dow completes purchase of Clean Filtration
The Dow Chemical Co. purchased remaining equity in Clean Filtration Technologies Inc. Dow Water & Process Solutions will operate the new business as Clean Filtration Technologies LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co.
Wilo names CEO, adds distributor
Wilo USA LLC named Mark D’Agostino president and chief executive officer. He joined the company in 2007 and has been vice president of sales and marketing and national sales manager. The company also added Metropolitan Industries Inc. of Romeoville, Ill., as a product representative in Illinois, northwest Indiana and St. Louis County, Mo.
MAR Systems names VP of sales
MAR Systems named Darrell Zielinski vice president of sales. He has 20 years of experience in the water treatment industry.
Grundfos opens water utility center
Grundfos North America held a ribbon cutting in April for its Aurora, Ill., water utility center. The facility will function as a competence center for municipal water, where research and development operations will bring to market sustainable and innovative solutions for water supply and wastewater challenges.
Agri-Inject names CEO, director of global sales
Agri-Inject Inc., provider of fluid injection technology for industrial and municipal use, named Erik Tribelhorn chief executive officer and Neal Saxton director of global sales.
GSE Lining Technology rebrands as GSE Environmental, adds assets
GSE Lining Technology LLC of Houston rebranded as GSE Environmental following its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, and to reflect its transition as a global organization. The company’s brand identity includes name change, logo and tagline, “Durability runs deep.” The company’s subsidiaries also acquired certain manufacturing equipment from Poly-America LP and Poly-Flex Inc. for $7.5 million.
Carboline’s Reactamine 760 receives FDA approval
Reactamine 760, an elastomeric polyurethane hybrid lining from Carboline Co., has received FDA approval for direct dry food contact in addition to its UL certification for potable water service.
Bauer Gear opens China assembly plant
Bauer Gear Motor, part of Altra Industrial Motion, opened its first assembly plant in China to more effectively serve industrial growth in that region. Located in Esslingen, Germany, Bauer is not moving its core design and manufacturing.
Severn Trent’s Spanish office changes name
Severn Trent Services/Apliclor, the company formed when Severn Trent Services acquired Barcelona-based P.S. Apliclor S.A. in 2009, changed its name to Severn Trent Services. The Apliclor name will continue to be used as a product brand within the Spanish office’s chemicals business. The company also introduced a new Spanish website, www.severntrentservices.es.
