ModernWater scoops up specialist Cogent


Water technology group Modern Water is to buy the environmental and processmonitoring prod- ucts companyCogentEn- vironmental. Cogent specialises in


systems that provide in- formation on harmful materials. Its online and on-site portable products, OVA and PDV, are used formonitoringheavymet- als in over 20 countries. ModernWater says the


move is important for its existing water moni- toring business, Cymtox, which has been success-


fully selling water quality monitoring systems into China. It is setting up a dedicated division, MW Monitoring, to consoli- date activities in the in- strumentation andmoni- toring industry. The group’s systems are


used to monitor waste- water discharges, identify sources of heavy metal pollutioninrivers, andthe monitoring of drinking water for potential metal contamination. There are alsomarkets


in the mining and metal processing industries.


Biotech study groups share £1mfunding pot


Ten feasibility studies into howindustrialbiotechnol- ogy can be competitively applied to the production of high value chemicals and polymers have been awarded


government


funds totalling£1million. The funding follows the


end of the first part of a funding competition – Manufacturing High Value Chemicals through IndustrialBiotechnology– run by the Technology StrategyBoard.Eachcom- pany will receive between £40,000and£120,000to carry out the studies. Industrial biotechnol-


ogy offers the potential to develop new, efficient and


sustainablemethodsofob- taining a significant pro- portion of our energy, chemical and material needs. Agricultural feed- stocks, novel biocatalysts and bioreactor technolo- gies could replace existing petrochemical-derived products such as lubri- cants andplasticsor create active pharmaceutical in- gredients through novel bio-transformations. InApril theTechnology


Strategy Board will an- nounce the results of the second part of its funding competition, which will see up to £1.5 million in- vested in collaborative R&Dprojects.


Force for change: Swedenís aviation physiology testing site comes under UK operation


Qinetiq wins at air medical site


UK research groupQine- tiq is to to operate and maintain the world-class Flight Physiological Cen- tre onbehalf ofFörsvarets Materiel Verk (FMV), the Swedish defence organi- sation. Under the 10-year


agreement, Qinetiq will use its test and evaluation expertise to manage the facilities and ensure that they are available to the Swedish Armed Forces. But Qinetiq will also be marketing themto third- party customers, tomake more productive use of the centre. The Flight Physiologi- cal Centre is part of the


aviation training, testing and research establish- ment located at Malmen in southern Sweden. The self-contained cen-


tre comprises a dynamic flight simulator (DFS), a combined human cen- trifuge and flight simula- tor which creates the g-force effect imposed by high performance air- craft; a hypobaric decom- pression chamber and a hyperbaric high pressure “diving” chamber; and a purpose build test and survival pool which can recreate adverse weather conditions. “FMV’s ability to sup- port world-class aviation


medicine training, re- search, and test and eval- uation will be assured for the long term by the cost savings and facility man- agement skills delivered byQinetiq,” saidBrigadier General Ossi Koukkula, FMV’s director of test and evaluation. Qinetiq has previously


worked with FMV on re- search support and en- abling projects. The two organisations have also worked together to sup- port the provision of Gripen aircraft for train- ingprogrammesdelivered via theEmpireTestPilots’ School atMoDBoscombe Down, in theUK.


Weiss’s test chamber firmsmerge UK sales teams


Environmental test cham- ber companies Weiss Gallenkamp and Design Environmental are to merge their sales teams in theUKand are also creat- ing a specialist team to focus on growthmarkets.


The pair share the same German parent company, WeissUmwelttechnik. Untilnowthe two firms


have operated separate sales teams focused on selling


either the Weiss/Votsch brands or


the Design Environmen- tal brand. Weiss is emphasising


that thenewarrangement retainsWeissGallenkamp andDesign Environmen- tal as independent com- panies.


Increased demand for


plant growth and phar- maceutical products in the UK and overseas has led the group to set up a team of specialists to fo- cus on thesemarkets, led byGarry Taylor.


For UK industrial


markets, Keith Barber will lead the merged UK sales team offering the complete range from theWeiss,Votsch andDe- sign


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