VRTX expands into Pacific Islands
Schertz, TX-based VRTX Technologies, a chemical-free water treatment company specializing in cooling towers and evaporative condensers, is now providing water treatment to some familiar locations in Hawaii and Guam. Hawaii's state capitol building in Honolulu needed a non-chemical device to treat its system due to close proximity of the Vietnam and Korean War Memorial on the capitol grounds' west end. Within months, the system increased its cycles of concentration from 2.1 to four, saving an estimated 2.5 million gallons of water a year. The Pacific Islands Club, the largest resort in Guam, is switching from an air-cooled system to a water-cooled system from VRTX. The new locations add to over 500 worldwide customers saving over a billion gallons of water annually with environmentally-friendly water treatment.
K-TEK absorbs ASI Instruments
ASI Instruments and its line of dry bulk solids level detection and measurement instruments have been integrated into K-TEK Corp., a manufacturer of level measurement instrumentation. It will become the K-TEK Solids Level group and will focus on dry bulk solids level detection and measurement devices. K-TEK's traditional liquid level products will be part of the K-TEK Liquid Level group.
N.H. honors firms for environmental achievement
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services announced winners of the 2008 Governor's Award for Pollution Prevention: Anheuser-Busch Inc. and Southeastern Container. Gov. John Lynch visited both facilities Oct. 30 to recognize their outstanding pollution prevention practices. The brewery installed an anaerobic Bio-Energy Recovery Systems to pre-treat brewery wastewater and produce biogas for use as a renewable fuel. In addition to odor control, this process also reduced costs associated with its onsite wastewater pretreatment processes and off-site treatment by the Town of Merrimack Waste Water Treatment Facility. The net air emissions reduction was 178 metric tons; energy reduction was 1,024,000 kWh; and net fuel savings were 91,000 MMBtu — saving Anheuser-Busch over $2.3 million per year...
Parker buys water RO filtration equipment maker
Parker Hannifin Corp. has acquired Aqua Pro Inc., a manufacturer of reverse osmosis filtration systems for military, commercial and pleasure marine applications. With FY2008 sales of $33.0 million, its results will be reported as a part of Parker's Industrial North America segment. Doing business as Village Marine Tec and Offshore Marine Laboratories, Aqua Pro has manufacturing centers in Gardena and San Fernando, CA. Sales and service locations are located in California, Florida, Hawaii, Virginia, and Washington. The company sells to OEMs including boat and ship builders, independent distributors, U.S. military branches and end-users. Its product line includes RO systems for military on-board submarines, and land applications as well as offshore oil rigs, work boats, fishing vessels, and pleasure boats.
