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World CEMS market to exceed US$583 million in 2009
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NEWS
PALL FILES PATENT SUIT AGAINST ENTEGRIS Pall Corp has reportedly filed a patent infringement action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Entegris Inc doing business as Mykrolis Corp. Pall’s suit alleges that Mykrolis is manufacturing and selling filter products for the semiconductor market, including certain of its Quickchange® and Waferguard® products, that infringe on two of Pall’s patents. Both products have been on the market for 10 years and are covered by patents held by Entegris (Mykrolis). The suit seeks damages and an injunction precluding Mykrolis from selling the infringing products. Entegris has said it is confident that it has not violated any intellectual property rights of Pall, adding that it believes that Pall’s action is entirely without merit and that it will vigorously defend this suit. (For Pall’s quarterly report, see page 13.)
PCC ACQUIRES NONWOVENS MANFACTURER GLOBETEC Precision Custom Coatings LLC (PCC), a US-based producer and supplier of nonwoven and coated fabrics for industrial market applications has acquired certain net assets and operations of GlobeTec Inc, a needlepunch non-woven filtration products manufacturer based in Maryland, USA. GlobeTec has been renamed Precision Textiles, a division of Precision Custom Coatings LLC. Terms were not disclosed. GlobeTec Inc is a manufacturer of bleeder and breather
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cloths used in vacuum bag curing of composites for the aerospace industry. The company also supplies a range of filtration and padding products for use in racing vehicles, air and liquid filtration, bedding, medical products, gaskets, major appliances, steel processing, vinyl and printing. Precision Custom Coatings says that it has acquired GlobeTec to accelerate its growth, range of offerings and production output. “Overall, the acquisition will increase our financial strength, further diversify our product portfolio, and accelerate our long-term growth,” said Scott Tesser, president of Precision Custom Coatings. The company plans to convert its newly obtained production facilities from a one and one-half shift facility to a continually operating 24-hour-aday mill, which will reportedly more than triple the facility’s workforce and double its production capacity.
DRESSER-RAND ACQUIRES AKER KVAERNER’S MPPT INTEREST Dresser-Rand Company has acquired Aker Kvaerner’s 50% interest in Multiphase Power and Processing Technologies (MppT). DresserRand now owns 100% interest in the venture. MppT was initially formed in 1998 as a joint venture between Dresser-Rand and Kvaerner, and connects DresserRand’s experience in designing and manufacturing rotating machinery with Kvaerner Process Systems’ expertise in separation technology. The focus of the joint venturewas to develop and market proprietary expanders and other equipment to separate gases and liquids and to generate power from previously wasted energy during oil and gas production. According to DresserRand president and CEO
Vincent Volpe Jr, obtaining full ownership of MppT complements the company’s existing technologies in the global oil and gas industries. “[The technologies involved in this enterprise] have demonstrated their effectiveness at enabling oil and gas producers to reduce the overall size of production platforms and subsea modules,” said Julian Smith, director of business development at Dresser-Rand, who will lead the separator strategic business unit for the company. This agreement between Dresser-Rand and Aker Kvaerner took effect on August 1, 2005. The terms of the sale were not disclosed.
GE ENERGY PLANS TO ACQUIRE ALTAIR TECHNOLOGY GE Energy has reportedly signed a purchase agreement to acquire Altair Filter Technology Group Limited, a provider of inlet filtration solutions for the power generation, oil and gas and marine industries. Gresham Private Equity, a regionally based UK midmarket private equity firm, is a majority stakeholder in the business. The transaction, subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close at the beginning of February 2006. Based in Alton, UK and with operations in Louisville, Kentucky, Altair has a global sales force and customer base. Established in 1966, the company’s technology has been installed in more than 2,000 units worldwide. GE Energy’s existing portfolio of environmental services covers a broad range of applications, including gas turbine air filtration, fuel and air monitoring and conditioning, combustion control, post-combustion control construction and pollutant monitoring and testing.
“Adding Altair’s expertise, experience and leading technology will further expand our offerings in the environmental services arena,” said Dan Heintzelman, president of GE Energy's services business. “It will enhance our technology portfolio by strengthening our systems and filtration capabilities, giving our customers more complete pre-combustion air quality solutions.”
WORLD CEMS MARKET TO EXCEED US$583 MILLION IN 2009 The market for continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) to measure pollutants discharged from stacks will rise to US$583 million/yr in 2009, says “Air Pollution Monitoring and Sampling World Markets”, a report supplied by the USbased McIlvaine Company. This rise is due primarily to increased activity in coalfired power generation, the report says. This includes the construction of many new coal-fired plants in China and the US, while even countries that are strong advocates of greenhouse gas reduction, such as the UK and Germany, are also planning to build new coal-fired plants, leading to a surge in new coal-fired generation across the world, McIlvaine claims. Another big factor is reportedly the retrofitting of NOx and SO2 control equipment at existing power plants in Eastern Europe, China, and the US Each of these installations will require additional monitors to aid in process control. While China and the US will be the biggest purchasers, many countries will also be retrofitting systems to remove NOx and SO2. In countries such as Chile where there are conversions back from natural gas to coal, CEMS needs will be extensive, the report claims.
NEWS
PALL FILES PATENT SUIT AGAINST ENTEGRIS Pall Corp has reportedly filed a patent infringement action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Entegris Inc doing business as Mykrolis Corp. Pall’s suit alleges that Mykrolis is manufacturing and selling filter products for the semiconductor market, including certain of its Quickchange® and Waferguard® products, that infringe on two of Pall’s patents. Both products have been on the market for 10 years and are covered by patents held by Entegris (Mykrolis). The suit seeks damages and an injunction precluding Mykrolis from selling the infringing products. Entegris has said it is confident that it has not violated any intellectual property rights of Pall, adding that it believes that Pall’s action is entirely without merit and that it will vigorously defend this suit. (For Pall’s quarterly report, see page 13.)
PCC ACQUIRES NONWOVENS MANFACTURER GLOBETEC Precision Custom Coatings LLC (PCC), a US-based producer and supplier of nonwoven and coated fabrics for industrial market applications has acquired certain net assets and operations of GlobeTec Inc, a needlepunch non-woven filtration products manufacturer based in Maryland, USA. GlobeTec has been renamed Precision Textiles, a division of Precision Custom Coatings LLC. Terms were not disclosed. GlobeTec Inc is a manufacturer of bleeder and breather
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cloths used in vacuum bag curing of composites for the aerospace industry. The company also supplies a range of filtration and padding products for use in racing vehicles, air and liquid filtration, bedding, medical products, gaskets, major appliances, steel processing, vinyl and printing. Precision Custom Coatings says that it has acquired GlobeTec to accelerate its growth, range of offerings and production output. “Overall, the acquisition will increase our financial strength, further diversify our product portfolio, and accelerate our long-term growth,” said Scott Tesser, president of Precision Custom Coatings. The company plans to convert its newly obtained production facilities from a one and one-half shift facility to a continually operating 24-hour-aday mill, which will reportedly more than triple the facility’s workforce and double its production capacity.
DRESSER-RAND ACQUIRES AKER KVAERNER’S MPPT INTEREST Dresser-Rand Company has acquired Aker Kvaerner’s 50% interest in Multiphase Power and Processing Technologies (MppT). DresserRand now owns 100% interest in the venture. MppT was initially formed in 1998 as a joint venture between Dresser-Rand and Kvaerner, and connects DresserRand’s experience in designing and manufacturing rotating machinery with Kvaerner Process Systems’ expertise in separation technology. The focus of the joint venturewas to develop and market proprietary expanders and other equipment to separate gases and liquids and to generate power from previously wasted energy during oil and gas production. According to DresserRand president and CEO
Vincent Volpe Jr, obtaining full ownership of MppT complements the company’s existing technologies in the global oil and gas industries. “[The technologies involved in this enterprise] have demonstrated their effectiveness at enabling oil and gas producers to reduce the overall size of production platforms and subsea modules,” said Julian Smith, director of business development at Dresser-Rand, who will lead the separator strategic business unit for the company. This agreement between Dresser-Rand and Aker Kvaerner took effect on August 1, 2005. The terms of the sale were not disclosed.
GE ENERGY PLANS TO ACQUIRE ALTAIR TECHNOLOGY GE Energy has reportedly signed a purchase agreement to acquire Altair Filter Technology Group Limited, a provider of inlet filtration solutions for the power generation, oil and gas and marine industries. Gresham Private Equity, a regionally based UK midmarket private equity firm, is a majority stakeholder in the business. The transaction, subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close at the beginning of February 2006. Based in Alton, UK and with operations in Louisville, Kentucky, Altair has a global sales force and customer base. Established in 1966, the company’s technology has been installed in more than 2,000 units worldwide. GE Energy’s existing portfolio of environmental services covers a broad range of applications, including gas turbine air filtration, fuel and air monitoring and conditioning, combustion control, post-combustion control construction and pollutant monitoring and testing.
“Adding Altair’s expertise, experience and leading technology will further expand our offerings in the environmental services arena,” said Dan Heintzelman, president of GE Energy's services business. “It will enhance our technology portfolio by strengthening our systems and filtration capabilities, giving our customers more complete pre-combustion air quality solutions.”
WORLD CEMS MARKET TO EXCEED US$583 MILLION IN 2009 The market for continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) to measure pollutants discharged from stacks will rise to US$583 million/yr in 2009, says “Air Pollution Monitoring and Sampling World Markets”, a report supplied by the USbased McIlvaine Company. This rise is due primarily to increased activity in coalfired power generation, the report says. This includes the construction of many new coal-fired plants in China and the US, while even countries that are strong advocates of greenhouse gas reduction, such as the UK and Germany, are also planning to build new coal-fired plants, leading to a surge in new coal-fired generation across the world, McIlvaine claims. Another big factor is reportedly the retrofitting of NOx and SO2 control equipment at existing power plants in Eastern Europe, China, and the US Each of these installations will require additional monitors to aid in process control. While China and the US will be the biggest purchasers, many countries will also be retrofitting systems to remove NOx and SO2. In countries such as Chile where there are conversions back from natural gas to coal, CEMS needs will be extensive, the report claims.