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Industry news
Filtration+Separation November/December 2010
GLV brands water businesses as Ovivo GLV Inc has merged its water businesses under one global brand name – Ovivo. The Ovivo brand, built around the Latin word for life, is the result of a nine-month review following GLV’s acquisition of Christ Water Technology last year. Heritage brands now under Ovivo include AJM Environmental Services, Brackett Green, Caird & Rayner Clark, Copa, Christ Water Technology, Aqua Engineering, Goema, H2 Oil&Gas, Kennicott, UT&S, Eimco Water Technologies, Enviroquip, Jones + Attwood, E Tomkinson & Co, Aquator, Tepro and Innoterv. Meanwhile Richard Verreault has taken over from his father Laurent Verreault as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of GLV Inc. Laurent Verreault has been named
executive chairman of the GLV board. “With the deployment of our strategy to build a leading group within the global water industry, GLV is entering a new growth phase,” said Laurent Verreault. “For me, it is an appropriate time to let the next generation carry on the work. Richard is certainly the best candidate to take up this challenge. In 27 years with the company, he has had the opportunity to handle every aspect of management and acquire in-depth knowledge of our businesses, operations and markets. Therefore, it is with absolute confidence that I pass him the lead role. This being said, I intend to continue to play an active role in close relationship with the team in place.” www.ovivowater.com www.glv.com
New head of Siemens Water Technologies Dr Lukas Loeffler (52) has taken charge of Siemens Water Technologies, following Chuck Gordon’s move to Heckmann Corp as president and chief operating officer (COO). “Lukas Loeffler has extensive technical experience and great integrative capability,” said Jens Wegmann, CEO of Siemens
Industry Solutions. “His expertise will help him to continue strengthening our position in the international water business.” Since 2005, Dr Loeffler has headed up Siemens’ Infrastructure Logistics business unit, based in Arlington, Texas.
Befesa is responsible for the design, construction and operation of the desalination plant under a 25-year contract. The Qingdao plant, which is
“The sale to Blackstone is the culmination of our strategic review process and we believe that this transaction represents the best value alternative available to our stockholders. Blackstone is committed to supporting our strategy of continued growth and investment in proprietary capabilities in our markets around the globe,” said PGI CEO Veronica Hagen.
“Polymer Group is an attractive company because of its leading position in the nonwovens industry and its strong footprint in high growth developing markets. The company has a talented management team, which we believe has much to achieve with our support and financial resources,” said Chinh Chu, a senior managing director at Blackstone. This deal is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2011. www.polymergroupinc.com www.blackstone.com
Met-Pro acquires Bio-Reaction Industries Met-Pro Corp has bought almost all of the assets including the patents and technology of Bio-Reaction Industries LLC, a Tualatin, Oregon-based company that designs and manufactures biological air pollution control systems that use microbes to digest industrial and municipal pollutants and to eliminate odours. Raymond De Hont, Met-Pro chairman and CEO, said that the acquisition of Bio-Reaction Industries significantly enhances Met-Pro’s competitive position in both the municipal and industrial global markets by providing not only state-of-the-
art biological technologies, but also a broad global reference base of customers. “BRI’s patented biological technology, which is a perfect complement to our Met-Pro Environmental Air Solutions’ thermal oxidizer and chemical scrubber technologies, strengthens our “Total Air Solutions” value proposition, allowing us to better address the increasingly more stringent environmental regulations and the global focus on greenhouse gas reduction,” said De Hont. www.met-pro.com www.bioreaction.com
www.siemens.com/industry
Befesa selects Norit for Qingdao desal plant Norit X-Flow has entered into an agreement with Befesa to supply ultrafiltration (UF) pretreatment technology for the Qingdao Desalination Project in Shandong Province, China.
Blackstone to acquire PGI Nonwovens producer Polymer Group Inc (PGI) has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of investment firm Blackstone Capital Partners V LP.
designed to process 100 000 cubic metres of water per day, will have 2280 Norit X-Flow SEAGUARD membrane modules arranged on 20 skids, each with a 120 UF module configuration. The project is expected to be commissioned in 2012. www.xflow.com
Freudenberg, Thermax form filtration partnership in India Freudenberg Filtration Technologies has formed a partnership with Thermax, an Indian energy and environmental technology company to jointly offer filtration and cooling solutions for large gas turbines and compressors for the energy, petrochemical, iron, steel and other sectors. Thermax and Freudenberg Filtration Technologies have developed a new system
– Viledon eee.Sy (energy efficiency enhancement system) – that cools the intake air of a turbine up to 15°C allowing an improvement of up to 25% in energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions. The partnership has already completed a number of installations, including one at a Tata Chemicals fertilizer plant. www.freudenberg.com
Industry news
Filtration+Separation November/December 2010
GLV brands water businesses as Ovivo GLV Inc has merged its water businesses under one global brand name – Ovivo. The Ovivo brand, built around the Latin word for life, is the result of a nine-month review following GLV’s acquisition of Christ Water Technology last year. Heritage brands now under Ovivo include AJM Environmental Services, Brackett Green, Caird & Rayner Clark, Copa, Christ Water Technology, Aqua Engineering, Goema, H2 Oil&Gas, Kennicott, UT&S, Eimco Water Technologies, Enviroquip, Jones + Attwood, E Tomkinson & Co, Aquator, Tepro and Innoterv. Meanwhile Richard Verreault has taken over from his father Laurent Verreault as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of GLV Inc. Laurent Verreault has been named
executive chairman of the GLV board. “With the deployment of our strategy to build a leading group within the global water industry, GLV is entering a new growth phase,” said Laurent Verreault. “For me, it is an appropriate time to let the next generation carry on the work. Richard is certainly the best candidate to take up this challenge. In 27 years with the company, he has had the opportunity to handle every aspect of management and acquire in-depth knowledge of our businesses, operations and markets. Therefore, it is with absolute confidence that I pass him the lead role. This being said, I intend to continue to play an active role in close relationship with the team in place.” www.ovivowater.com www.glv.com
New head of Siemens Water Technologies Dr Lukas Loeffler (52) has taken charge of Siemens Water Technologies, following Chuck Gordon’s move to Heckmann Corp as president and chief operating officer (COO). “Lukas Loeffler has extensive technical experience and great integrative capability,” said Jens Wegmann, CEO of Siemens
Industry Solutions. “His expertise will help him to continue strengthening our position in the international water business.” Since 2005, Dr Loeffler has headed up Siemens’ Infrastructure Logistics business unit, based in Arlington, Texas.
Befesa is responsible for the design, construction and operation of the desalination plant under a 25-year contract. The Qingdao plant, which is
“The sale to Blackstone is the culmination of our strategic review process and we believe that this transaction represents the best value alternative available to our stockholders. Blackstone is committed to supporting our strategy of continued growth and investment in proprietary capabilities in our markets around the globe,” said PGI CEO Veronica Hagen.
“Polymer Group is an attractive company because of its leading position in the nonwovens industry and its strong footprint in high growth developing markets. The company has a talented management team, which we believe has much to achieve with our support and financial resources,” said Chinh Chu, a senior managing director at Blackstone. This deal is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2011. www.polymergroupinc.com www.blackstone.com
Met-Pro acquires Bio-Reaction Industries Met-Pro Corp has bought almost all of the assets including the patents and technology of Bio-Reaction Industries LLC, a Tualatin, Oregon-based company that designs and manufactures biological air pollution control systems that use microbes to digest industrial and municipal pollutants and to eliminate odours. Raymond De Hont, Met-Pro chairman and CEO, said that the acquisition of Bio-Reaction Industries significantly enhances Met-Pro’s competitive position in both the municipal and industrial global markets by providing not only state-of-the-
art biological technologies, but also a broad global reference base of customers. “BRI’s patented biological technology, which is a perfect complement to our Met-Pro Environmental Air Solutions’ thermal oxidizer and chemical scrubber technologies, strengthens our “Total Air Solutions” value proposition, allowing us to better address the increasingly more stringent environmental regulations and the global focus on greenhouse gas reduction,” said De Hont. www.met-pro.com www.bioreaction.com
www.siemens.com/industry
Befesa selects Norit for Qingdao desal plant Norit X-Flow has entered into an agreement with Befesa to supply ultrafiltration (UF) pretreatment technology for the Qingdao Desalination Project in Shandong Province, China.
Blackstone to acquire PGI Nonwovens producer Polymer Group Inc (PGI) has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of investment firm Blackstone Capital Partners V LP.
designed to process 100 000 cubic metres of water per day, will have 2280 Norit X-Flow SEAGUARD membrane modules arranged on 20 skids, each with a 120 UF module configuration. The project is expected to be commissioned in 2012. www.xflow.com
Freudenberg, Thermax form filtration partnership in India Freudenberg Filtration Technologies has formed a partnership with Thermax, an Indian energy and environmental technology company to jointly offer filtration and cooling solutions for large gas turbines and compressors for the energy, petrochemical, iron, steel and other sectors. Thermax and Freudenberg Filtration Technologies have developed a new system
– Viledon eee.Sy (energy efficiency enhancement system) – that cools the intake air of a turbine up to 15°C allowing an improvement of up to 25% in energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions. The partnership has already completed a number of installations, including one at a Tata Chemicals fertilizer plant. www.freudenberg.com