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Investment by the process industries
Vacuum news spectrophotometers as well as ultrahigh vacuum pumps and associated systems and instrumentation. Varian has also opened itsfirst companyoperated sales and service office in Latin America. Varian Industria e Comercia Ltda is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is directed by Peter Kessler, General Sales Manager, South America. The new office is a result of the rapid growth in sales to South American markets. Product lines represented by Varian Ltda include electron tubes, all analytical instrument lines, high vacuum equipment, graphic recorders and Radiation Division products. Five of Varian Associates’ products are among the 100 new technical products selected as winners in the 1967 ‘I-R 100 Competition, organised by Industrial Research magazine. The awards were selected on the basis of their technical importance, uniqueness, and usefulness by a board consisting of 30 leading scientists, engineers and research administrators. Varian, with its five awards, was placed second; General Electric Company of America had nine awards. Winning Varian products were: The Statos Recorder-an electrostatic recording instrument using no moving parts; The HR-220 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer; CARY 81 Raman Spectrouhometer-with a powerful laser source; The Hehner gauge (described in Vacuum News, August 1967); and Mass Spectrometer/Gas Chromatograph Interface. In the five years of the I-R 100 Competition, Varian has won a total of 14 awards, to be placed fifth among all competing companies.
The Leybold-Heraeus merger On the 28th September 1967, HeraeusEngelhard Vacuum Inc, of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, USA, made the following announcement : Heraeus Hochvakuum GmbH of Hanau, West Germany, a parent company of Heraeus - Engelhard Vacuum. Inc. of Monroeville,Pa, has merged with Leybold Nachfolger KG of Cologne, West Germany, to form Leybold-Heraeus GmbH and Company. The new firm is one of the largest manufacturers of vacuum equipment in the world, commanding 60 per cent of the European market and employing approximately 2400 persons. Combined sales are $25 million for a product line consisting basically of vacuum pumps, valves, gauges, fittings, metallizing equipment, and furnaces. The executive management committee of Leybold-Heraeus is headed by Mr Helmut Gruber of Heraeus. and includes Drs George-Wilhelm Okten and Werner Otten of Leybolds. HeraeusEngelhard is now in the nrocess of doubling the- size of its Momoeville facility to accommodate the increased sales volume expected from the merger. In addition to serving as a distributor for Heraeus and Leybold vacuum equipment, HeraeusEngelhard will continue manufacturing its own line of highly specialized vacuum furnaces, pumping systems, vacuum deposition apparatus, and related components.
The Hick Hargreaves Group of companies Accompanying the list of their Board of Directors, the Hick Hargreaves Group have issued an extensive description of the member companies, outlining the successful reaction of the Group to the challenge of change in the pattern of industrial requirements. The five member companies are: Hick, Hargreaves & Co Ltd; Foster, Yates & Thorn Ltd; Finch-Watson Ltd: Gerraide Ltd and Foster-Finch (Sales and Service) Ltd. The parent company, Hick Hargreaves was for decades one of the best known firms supplying Main Condensing and Feed Heating Plants for the Power Generating Industry. Faced with a declining UK Market by the reduction of new Power Stations programmes, they opted out of beina Main Contractors for major CEGB planrto concentrate on the development of specialised component units. This policy decision has paid off by providing more UK outlets for products in the category of air extraction equipment, deaerators and direct contact heaters and, due to the considerable increased throughput, even more competitive prices. Increased demand for vacuum equipment has been exploited by the R & D programme, which together with the considerable experience gained by the Company in this field. provides a broad range of vacuum raising equipment for : process evaporation for the Food and Chemical Industries. distillation plants, deodorising and bleach: ing plants, and vacuum chilling plants; vacuum equipment for Refinery, Petrochemical and Chemical Process plants, vacuum steel degassing_plants, accelerated freeze drying plants for the Food Industry, simulation plants for high altitude and supersonic flights, Man Made fibres, milk evaporation, and phosphoric acid plants. Perhaps the most dramatic of the many recent developments of the Company is the virtual complete coverage of the Compressed Air Field. The latest of these being the manufacturing under licence of one of America’s most successful Rotary Exhausters and Gas Blowers. Now the Company is in the unique position of being able to offer a potential user Vacuum or Compressed Air equipment of the most economic and practical type of machine for virtually a;; requirement. Enquiries and orders Compressors/Exhausters/ Blowers/Vacuum Pumps are now being received from nearly every manufacturing and servicing field. These cover capacities from 15 to 3?lOOcfm at pressures as low as .05 mm/Hg abs UD to 100 psig. The choice of 4 systems ensures that the &l-it application can be installed for any specific use. Accompanying this expanding and progressive approach to its products, the Company has not neglected design or production problems. It is currently adopting Value Engineering techniques to all its products whether they are well established items or new lines of manufacture. A high degree of re-tooling has taken place in the machine shoos with numerical and tape controlled machines where practicable. An extension of 4?,000 sq ft to the production facilities is now under construction.
Investment by the process industries The second report of the Process Plant Working Party (National Economic Development Office, Millbank Tower, 21/ 41 Millbank, London, SWl) appeared in September 1967. This 19-page report contains the statistics and forecasts for investment by the process industries (oil, chemicals and gas) in the UK for the period up to 1969. The report has been sent to all contractors and companies manufacturing equipment used in the process industries. Investment by the process industries together with exports by plant contractors wiil be about 673Om in 1968 compared with a forecast of E710m for 1967 and actual expenditure of f65Om in 1966. The Process Plant Working Party has reexamined its estimates of future investment and has concluded that its earlier forecast of a high level of investment activity is correct. Tentative forecasts for 1969 indicate a total similar to 1968, though the split between the user industries is not uniform. These findings are set against a background of reports from some contractors and manufacturers of low levels of incoming orders. In some cases these arise from heavy imports, which are encouraged by the custom and desire of many manufacturers always to have a large backlog of unexecuted orders on their books. In addition to examining investment by the process industries in the short term, the report draws attention to the consistently rising level over the longer term. It also examines the problems arising from the cyclical nature of investment and its effects upon individual plant suppliers; the time span for building an average plant, compared with that achieved by our overseas competitors; and the desirability of establishing delivery ‘norms’ for different types of plant and equipment. The Process Plant Working Party is chaired by Mr Kenneth Leach of Serck Limited. On it are representatives of the process plant contractors and manufacturers, the process industries, the union, the National Economic Development Office, and Government departments. The working party, set up in August 1966 to examine the problems of the imbalance between supply of and demand for process equipment, is carrying out a study of process plant suppliers and will be reporting further to the industry on its findings early in 1968. Change of name On the 1st October, 1967, Gloucester Controls Ltd, of Eastern Avenue, Gloucester changed its name to Serck Glocon. Gloucester Controls Ltd, was always a member of the Serck Group but the name change is in line with Serck’s aim to public& the group’s capability. Similar changes are being made to the names of other group divisions. As part of the group Serck Glocon has a multi-million pound backing and matching wealth of experience. All the companies within the group are directly or indirectly concerned with the handling of fluid flow and the name of Serck has been connected with the control of fluids for over 60 years.
The Leybold-Heraeus merger On the 28th September 1967, HeraeusEngelhard Vacuum Inc, of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, USA, made the following announcement : Heraeus Hochvakuum GmbH of Hanau, West Germany, a parent company of Heraeus - Engelhard Vacuum. Inc. of Monroeville,Pa, has merged with Leybold Nachfolger KG of Cologne, West Germany, to form Leybold-Heraeus GmbH and Company. The new firm is one of the largest manufacturers of vacuum equipment in the world, commanding 60 per cent of the European market and employing approximately 2400 persons. Combined sales are $25 million for a product line consisting basically of vacuum pumps, valves, gauges, fittings, metallizing equipment, and furnaces. The executive management committee of Leybold-Heraeus is headed by Mr Helmut Gruber of Heraeus. and includes Drs George-Wilhelm Okten and Werner Otten of Leybolds. HeraeusEngelhard is now in the nrocess of doubling the- size of its Momoeville facility to accommodate the increased sales volume expected from the merger. In addition to serving as a distributor for Heraeus and Leybold vacuum equipment, HeraeusEngelhard will continue manufacturing its own line of highly specialized vacuum furnaces, pumping systems, vacuum deposition apparatus, and related components.
The Hick Hargreaves Group of companies Accompanying the list of their Board of Directors, the Hick Hargreaves Group have issued an extensive description of the member companies, outlining the successful reaction of the Group to the challenge of change in the pattern of industrial requirements. The five member companies are: Hick, Hargreaves & Co Ltd; Foster, Yates & Thorn Ltd; Finch-Watson Ltd: Gerraide Ltd and Foster-Finch (Sales and Service) Ltd. The parent company, Hick Hargreaves was for decades one of the best known firms supplying Main Condensing and Feed Heating Plants for the Power Generating Industry. Faced with a declining UK Market by the reduction of new Power Stations programmes, they opted out of beina Main Contractors for major CEGB planrto concentrate on the development of specialised component units. This policy decision has paid off by providing more UK outlets for products in the category of air extraction equipment, deaerators and direct contact heaters and, due to the considerable increased throughput, even more competitive prices. Increased demand for vacuum equipment has been exploited by the R & D programme, which together with the considerable experience gained by the Company in this field. provides a broad range of vacuum raising equipment for : process evaporation for the Food and Chemical Industries. distillation plants, deodorising and bleach: ing plants, and vacuum chilling plants; vacuum equipment for Refinery, Petrochemical and Chemical Process plants, vacuum steel degassing_plants, accelerated freeze drying plants for the Food Industry, simulation plants for high altitude and supersonic flights, Man Made fibres, milk evaporation, and phosphoric acid plants. Perhaps the most dramatic of the many recent developments of the Company is the virtual complete coverage of the Compressed Air Field. The latest of these being the manufacturing under licence of one of America’s most successful Rotary Exhausters and Gas Blowers. Now the Company is in the unique position of being able to offer a potential user Vacuum or Compressed Air equipment of the most economic and practical type of machine for virtually a;; requirement. Enquiries and orders Compressors/Exhausters/ Blowers/Vacuum Pumps are now being received from nearly every manufacturing and servicing field. These cover capacities from 15 to 3?lOOcfm at pressures as low as .05 mm/Hg abs UD to 100 psig. The choice of 4 systems ensures that the &l-it application can be installed for any specific use. Accompanying this expanding and progressive approach to its products, the Company has not neglected design or production problems. It is currently adopting Value Engineering techniques to all its products whether they are well established items or new lines of manufacture. A high degree of re-tooling has taken place in the machine shoos with numerical and tape controlled machines where practicable. An extension of 4?,000 sq ft to the production facilities is now under construction.
Investment by the process industries The second report of the Process Plant Working Party (National Economic Development Office, Millbank Tower, 21/ 41 Millbank, London, SWl) appeared in September 1967. This 19-page report contains the statistics and forecasts for investment by the process industries (oil, chemicals and gas) in the UK for the period up to 1969. The report has been sent to all contractors and companies manufacturing equipment used in the process industries. Investment by the process industries together with exports by plant contractors wiil be about 673Om in 1968 compared with a forecast of E710m for 1967 and actual expenditure of f65Om in 1966. The Process Plant Working Party has reexamined its estimates of future investment and has concluded that its earlier forecast of a high level of investment activity is correct. Tentative forecasts for 1969 indicate a total similar to 1968, though the split between the user industries is not uniform. These findings are set against a background of reports from some contractors and manufacturers of low levels of incoming orders. In some cases these arise from heavy imports, which are encouraged by the custom and desire of many manufacturers always to have a large backlog of unexecuted orders on their books. In addition to examining investment by the process industries in the short term, the report draws attention to the consistently rising level over the longer term. It also examines the problems arising from the cyclical nature of investment and its effects upon individual plant suppliers; the time span for building an average plant, compared with that achieved by our overseas competitors; and the desirability of establishing delivery ‘norms’ for different types of plant and equipment. The Process Plant Working Party is chaired by Mr Kenneth Leach of Serck Limited. On it are representatives of the process plant contractors and manufacturers, the process industries, the union, the National Economic Development Office, and Government departments. The working party, set up in August 1966 to examine the problems of the imbalance between supply of and demand for process equipment, is carrying out a study of process plant suppliers and will be reporting further to the industry on its findings early in 1968. Change of name On the 1st October, 1967, Gloucester Controls Ltd, of Eastern Avenue, Gloucester changed its name to Serck Glocon. Gloucester Controls Ltd, was always a member of the Serck Group but the name change is in line with Serck’s aim to public& the group’s capability. Similar changes are being made to the names of other group divisions. As part of the group Serck Glocon has a multi-million pound backing and matching wealth of experience. All the companies within the group are directly or indirectly concerned with the handling of fluid flow and the name of Serck has been connected with the control of fluids for over 60 years.