Washington, DC's Danaher Corp. reached an agreement in September with Trojan Technologies Inc., of London, Ontario, Canada to acquire all shares of Trojan for about US$185 million, including transaction costs and net of cash acquired. To date, Danaher's acquisitions in the water treatment industry have focused mostly on instrumentation and analytical systems – grouped largely under The Hach Company in Loveland, CO...
As a result of increasing cost pressures in a global economy, GE Infrastructure Water & Process Technologies notified customers in September of new pricing structures for all of its products and services, effective immediately...
Nalco Company, of Naperville, IL, announced a price increase for water treatment and process chemicals sold to Industrial and Institutional Services Division customers, effective Oct. 1, or as contracts allow. Separately, it announced a 5-10% increase in specialty chemicals for the paper industry, with a steeper rise for silicone-based materials...
The Hydraulic Institute announced the pump industry's first comprehensive e-Learning course, "Centrifugal Pumps: Fundamentals, Design and Applications," at www.pumplearning.org...
Tenergy Christ Water LLC, of New Britain, CT, was chosen by Bristol-Myers Squibb, one of the world's leading makers of medicines and related health care products, to optimize an existing water treatment system at their facility in Syracuse, N.Y...
WEDECO Ultraviolet Technologies Inc., of Charlotte, NC, won a major contract for its LBX Series high-efficiency UV and hydrogen peroxide oxidation system for use at Aerojet facilities near Sacramento, CA, where groundwater contaminated with the rocket fuel byproduct perchlorate has been treated since 1993...
Neptune Chemical Pump Co. Inc., of Lansdale, PA, acquired Fluid Dynamics' dynaBLEND™ liquid & dry polymer preparation systems from Aqua-Aerobic Systems Inc. of Rockford, IL...
Strategic Diagnostics Inc., of Newark, DE, signed an exclusive distribution agreement with the UK's Monitoring Technologies International (MTI) for U.S. sales of MTI's PDV-6000 heavy metal analyzer and reagents, which are designed to rapidly detect multiple metal contaminants on-site in water, soil and food matrices...
