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AWWARF authorises 1997 research spend
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AWWARF AUTHORISES 1997 RESEARCH SPEND
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The American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AWWARF) has authorised 53 new drinking water research projects valued at US$12 million for 1997. The 1997 research agenda focuses on public health protection, utility management and stewardship of resources. The research topics range from Cryptosporidium and emerging waterborne pathogens to customer perceptions and water resources. The 1997 funding brings the cumulative research budget between 1986 and 1997 to US$107 million. Water utilities voluntarily provide most of the funding for AWWARFsponsored research. There are now approximately 900 participating utilities located in the USA, Canada, Australia, France, the UK and New Zealand serving an estimated 125 million customers.
BETZDEARBORN AND METCALF & EDDY JOIN FORCES BetzDearborn Inc, a supplier of chemical treatment programs for industrial water and process systems, and Metcalf & Eddy, a designer, constructor and operator of water and wastewater facilities, have formed a strategic alliance to provide complete water management outsourcing services to industrial customers worldwide. BetzDearborn is a US$1.2 billion company headquartered in Trevose, Pennsylvania. Metcalf & Eddy is a subsidiary of Air & Water Technologies Corp, a US$700 million environmental treatment and services firm.
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April 1997
HYUNDAI EXPANDS IN SCOTLAND
HP AND CSM IN US$1 BILLION WAFER VENTURE
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM) of SinWork has started on the con- gapore are to invest more than struction of the Hyundai US$1 billion in a silicon wafer Semiconductor Europe (HSE) facility in Singapore. semiconductor facility in Plant construction is schedDunfermline, Scotland. uled to begin in September In October 1996, HSE an- 1997, with production expected nounced that it was to invest to start in mid-1999. The new more than US$3.6 billion in two facility will have a monthly state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing capacity of more facilities in Dunfermline, mak- than 30 000 eight-inch wafers. ing it Europe's largest-ever inward investment. Michael GLOBAL CHIP Forsyth MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, described the proSALES IN ject as a flagship in terms of FEBRUARY HIT technologies used in the manuUS$10.4 BILLION facturing process and in terms of the scale of investment in According to the SemiconducScotland by one of Korea' s larg- tor Industry Association's est industrial groups. HK Yoo, Global Billings Report, managing director of HSE, said worldwide chip sales reached that Hyundai aims to become US$10.4 billion in February the world's largest memory 1997, a 2.4 per cent decline chip producer by 1999 and that from January's sales of the company was in the process US$10.65 billion. of globalising its manufacturing Sales declined slightly in all facilities to achieve this. The four major markets from Janufirst phase of the project, a ary 1997 to February 1997. The US$1.7 billion wafer plant, is largest fluctuation occurred in scheduled to come onstream in Japan, where sales fell by 4.4 1998. per cent. However, the Japanese Yen declined 3.1 per cent in the period making the decline only LATTICE TO 1.3 per cent in local currency. FUND JAPANESE February's sales totals were SEMICONDUCTOR 15.5 per cent below the February 1996 billings total of FAB US$12.3 billion. Lattice Semiconductor Corp, a supplier of programmable SAMSUNG logic devices, is to advance up to US$150 million to Seiko SELECTS Epson Corporation to help FAULKNER fund a new eight-inch semiconductor wafer plant, which Samsung Austin Semiconducis currently under construc- tor has selected Faulkner Construction Company of tion in Sakata, Japan. In return, Lattice will receive Austin to build the clean room guaranteed eight-inch, sub-mi- at the company's new plant in cron wafer capacity. Lattice Northwest, Austin. The project will result in also plans to manufacture next generation, high-density, in- 125 000 square feet of Class 1 system programmable logic de- clean room, where Samsung vices at the new facility, will produce advanced model beginning in 1998. computer memory chips. The
new plant is scheduled for completion in July 1997, with production on course to begin by the end of the year.
TEXACO COMPLETES SALE OF PO/MTBE BUSINESS in a US$600 million deal, Texaco Inc has sold its propylene oxide/methyl tertiary butyl ether (PO/MTBE) business to Huntsman Specialty Chemicals Corporation, a subsidiary of Huntsman Corporation. The PO/MTBE manufacturing facility has been operated by Huntsman since 1994. It is located adjacent to Huntsman's facilities in Port Neches, Texas and has a production capacity of 400 million pounds per year of propylene oxide and a daily capacity of 15 000 barrels of MTBE. Huntsman has also acquired Texaco's exclusive, state-of-the-art PO/MTBE manufacturing technology. The sale marks the completion of the disposal of Texaco' s chemicals business.
BAYER REALIGNS US CHEMICALS DIVISIONS Bayer Corporation has realigned its chemicals divisions in the USA. The business groups within the former Fibers, Organics and Rubber Division and the Industrial Chemicals Division are now grouped into three divisions: Fibers, Additives and Rubber Division which includes the fibers and rubber business groups as well as H&R Florasynth and Rhein Chemie Corporation; Industrial Chemicals Division which comprises inorganic chemicals and organic chemicals businesses as well as ChemDesign Corporation and HC Stark Inc; and the new Performance Products Di-
AWWARF AUTHORISES 1997 RESEARCH SPEND
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The American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AWWARF) has authorised 53 new drinking water research projects valued at US$12 million for 1997. The 1997 research agenda focuses on public health protection, utility management and stewardship of resources. The research topics range from Cryptosporidium and emerging waterborne pathogens to customer perceptions and water resources. The 1997 funding brings the cumulative research budget between 1986 and 1997 to US$107 million. Water utilities voluntarily provide most of the funding for AWWARFsponsored research. There are now approximately 900 participating utilities located in the USA, Canada, Australia, France, the UK and New Zealand serving an estimated 125 million customers.
BETZDEARBORN AND METCALF & EDDY JOIN FORCES BetzDearborn Inc, a supplier of chemical treatment programs for industrial water and process systems, and Metcalf & Eddy, a designer, constructor and operator of water and wastewater facilities, have formed a strategic alliance to provide complete water management outsourcing services to industrial customers worldwide. BetzDearborn is a US$1.2 billion company headquartered in Trevose, Pennsylvania. Metcalf & Eddy is a subsidiary of Air & Water Technologies Corp, a US$700 million environmental treatment and services firm.
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April 1997
HYUNDAI EXPANDS IN SCOTLAND
HP AND CSM IN US$1 BILLION WAFER VENTURE
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM) of SinWork has started on the con- gapore are to invest more than struction of the Hyundai US$1 billion in a silicon wafer Semiconductor Europe (HSE) facility in Singapore. semiconductor facility in Plant construction is schedDunfermline, Scotland. uled to begin in September In October 1996, HSE an- 1997, with production expected nounced that it was to invest to start in mid-1999. The new more than US$3.6 billion in two facility will have a monthly state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing capacity of more facilities in Dunfermline, mak- than 30 000 eight-inch wafers. ing it Europe's largest-ever inward investment. Michael GLOBAL CHIP Forsyth MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, described the proSALES IN ject as a flagship in terms of FEBRUARY HIT technologies used in the manuUS$10.4 BILLION facturing process and in terms of the scale of investment in According to the SemiconducScotland by one of Korea' s larg- tor Industry Association's est industrial groups. HK Yoo, Global Billings Report, managing director of HSE, said worldwide chip sales reached that Hyundai aims to become US$10.4 billion in February the world's largest memory 1997, a 2.4 per cent decline chip producer by 1999 and that from January's sales of the company was in the process US$10.65 billion. of globalising its manufacturing Sales declined slightly in all facilities to achieve this. The four major markets from Janufirst phase of the project, a ary 1997 to February 1997. The US$1.7 billion wafer plant, is largest fluctuation occurred in scheduled to come onstream in Japan, where sales fell by 4.4 1998. per cent. However, the Japanese Yen declined 3.1 per cent in the period making the decline only LATTICE TO 1.3 per cent in local currency. FUND JAPANESE February's sales totals were SEMICONDUCTOR 15.5 per cent below the February 1996 billings total of FAB US$12.3 billion. Lattice Semiconductor Corp, a supplier of programmable SAMSUNG logic devices, is to advance up to US$150 million to Seiko SELECTS Epson Corporation to help FAULKNER fund a new eight-inch semiconductor wafer plant, which Samsung Austin Semiconducis currently under construc- tor has selected Faulkner Construction Company of tion in Sakata, Japan. In return, Lattice will receive Austin to build the clean room guaranteed eight-inch, sub-mi- at the company's new plant in cron wafer capacity. Lattice Northwest, Austin. The project will result in also plans to manufacture next generation, high-density, in- 125 000 square feet of Class 1 system programmable logic de- clean room, where Samsung vices at the new facility, will produce advanced model beginning in 1998. computer memory chips. The
new plant is scheduled for completion in July 1997, with production on course to begin by the end of the year.
TEXACO COMPLETES SALE OF PO/MTBE BUSINESS in a US$600 million deal, Texaco Inc has sold its propylene oxide/methyl tertiary butyl ether (PO/MTBE) business to Huntsman Specialty Chemicals Corporation, a subsidiary of Huntsman Corporation. The PO/MTBE manufacturing facility has been operated by Huntsman since 1994. It is located adjacent to Huntsman's facilities in Port Neches, Texas and has a production capacity of 400 million pounds per year of propylene oxide and a daily capacity of 15 000 barrels of MTBE. Huntsman has also acquired Texaco's exclusive, state-of-the-art PO/MTBE manufacturing technology. The sale marks the completion of the disposal of Texaco' s chemicals business.
BAYER REALIGNS US CHEMICALS DIVISIONS Bayer Corporation has realigned its chemicals divisions in the USA. The business groups within the former Fibers, Organics and Rubber Division and the Industrial Chemicals Division are now grouped into three divisions: Fibers, Additives and Rubber Division which includes the fibers and rubber business groups as well as H&R Florasynth and Rhein Chemie Corporation; Industrial Chemicals Division which comprises inorganic chemicals and organic chemicals businesses as well as ChemDesign Corporation and HC Stark Inc; and the new Performance Products Di-