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Specialists of Oil in Water Analysers Joins PAC
PAC (USA), a specialist global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and online process applications, is pleased to announce that Advanced Sensors, a specialist global supplier of Oil in Water analysers, has joined the PAC team.
Advanced Sensors has served oil and gas and marine customers with highly accurate and exceptionally reliable process analysers since 2006. The Advanced Sensors Oil in Water analysers operate in harsh environments with zero routine maintenance, consistently providing highly accurate and reliable results. These accurate measurements ensure process and environmental control and offer early warning indicators of leaks and discharges.
Advanced Sensors has combined numerous technologies, such as ultrasonics, fluorescence, video microscopy, optical spectrometry and mass spectrometry, to ensure that its analysers stay clean and provide precise readings.
“Advanced Sensors provides a proprietary technology that is the preferred choice when customers focus on meeting their regulatory oil in water discharge requirements with confidence. This technology will make PAC’s Process Analytics division even stronger and more competitive,” said Eric Schellenberger, PAC President. “With its strong product technology and its penetration in the Oil & Gas production market segment, Advanced Sensors will enable PAC to deliver a highly differentiated technology to our current process refining customers and expand our market penetration in the upstream market.”
“By joining PAC, Advanced Sensors will continue to invest in the development of innovative products for our customers,” said Khalid Thabeth with Advanced Sensors. “In addition, our customers will benefit from the full range of comprehensive customer service, support, and solutions available to all PAC customers.”
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27502pr@reply-direct.com Anton Paar Acquires CSM Instruments
On November 15, 2013, the purchase contract between Anton Paar GmbH (Austria) and CSM Instruments SA was signed. CSM Instruments SA will continue under the name "CSM Instruments SA | A company of Anton Paar" at the present location in Peseux (Switzerland).
Anton Paar is the world specialists in the field of density and concentration measurement, the determination of dissolved
CO2, rheology and the material characterisation of surfaces. Its customers include the largest soft drink and beer manufacturers in the world and companies in the food, chemical,
petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Established in 1922 as a one-man locksmith's workshop in Graz (Austria), the company has consistently explored new paths and combined research with high- precision manufacturing. Today Anton Paar develops highly accurate laboratory instruments, process measuring instrumentation and custom-tailored automation and robotics solutions for quality control. Around 20 % of the annual turnover is invested in research and development. Anton Paar GmbH, with its headquarters in Graz, Austria, and 20 – now 21 – subsidiaries worldwide, is active in more than 110 countries. Over 1800 people work in the Anton Paar Group. In 2012 the turnover was 190 million Euro. Since 2003 the charitable Santner Foundation is the owner of Anton Paar GmbH. The foundation is exclusively and directly dedicated to charitable and beneficent causes.
Dr. Friedrich Santner, the CEO of Anton Paar GmbH: "We are happy to have successfully concluded the long negotiations. CSM Instruments complements our product portfolio in the field of material characterisation of surfaces. This market is becoming increasingly important and is a focus in our strategic approach for the coming years."
CSM Instruments SA develops, produces and sells laboratory instruments for the characterisation of mechanical properties on material surfaces at the micro- and nano-scales. Its renowned and globally active customers are found, for example, in academic research, the automobile industry, in the field of environmental technology, in life sciences and among tool manufacturers. In 2012 CSM Instruments had a turnover of 12 million Euro and currently counts over 60 employees worldwide.
Jacques Francoise, former General Manager of CSM Instruments: "CSM Instruments is a leader in materials testing equipment at the nano-scale and well-located in the heart of the world-renowned Swiss watch industry, a micromechanics excellence center. A further benefit of the company site in Peseux is its close proximity to universities and research institutes in Neuchâtel. I am proud that an innovative as well as value-oriented high-tech company like Anton Paar has acquired CSM Instruments. Anton Paar, which is known for its strong corporate culture, with an employee-oriented attitude and its excellent product portfolio, will consolidate the future of CSM Instruments in the Neuchâtel area on a long-term basis."
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Nordics' Largest Refinery
Modernised Honeywell (USA) recently announced that it has been selected by Preem AB to modernise one of Europe's largest refineries – Preemraf Lysekil – with Honeywell's Enhanced High Performance Process Manager (EHPM) industrial process controllers.
The project should significantly extend the life of the existing control system at the refinery, located in southern Sweden. Preem AB, the country's largest oil producer, will use the enhanced high performance process manager to as much as triple the capacity of the refinery's existing controllers.
Preem AB has an annual refining capacity of more than 18 million metric tons, accounting for 75 percent of refining capacity in Sweden and about one-third of the entire Nordic region. Preem AB is the largest supplier of ultra-low-sulphur diesel fuel in Sweden, with a sulphur content of less than 5 ppm (parts per million), significantly lower than the Euro 4 requirement of 50 ppm.
"Honeywell's Enhanced High Performance Process Manager enables Preem to modernise their refinery and increase through-put while maximising legacy investments and intellectual property," said John Rudolph, vice president for Honeywell Process Solutions' Lifecycle Solutions and Services business.
The upgrade will be completed during planned maintenance at the refinery and will not require any additional downtime. It is scheduled to be completed before the end of the year.
"This investment builds on Lysekil's position as the region's leading refinery and will deliver real benefits for decades," said Lars Andersson, automation manager at Preem AB. "It also means we can maintain and improve on a safe, efficient operation, without the disruption and cost of ripping out and replacing the entire control system."
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Industrial Safety Technologies Completes Acquisition of Oldham from Industrial Scientific Corporation
Battery Ventures portfolio company Industrial Safety Technologies (USA) has completed the acquisition of the Oldham fixed-point gas detection business from Industrial Scientific Corporation. Oldham provides a comprehensive portfolio of fixed system gas detection monitors and controllers and will be the fifth acquisition for IST since its inception in 2011. The sale encompasses Oldham headquarters’ operations in Arras, France, along with fixed systems support and sales operations in China, Germany, India and the United States. No financial details were disclosed.
Adam Markin, President of Industrial Safety Technologies (IST), said that “Oldham offers IST a great global presence and market share including production capabilities in France and China that complement IST’s existing locations and other group companies. We are excited about completing this acquisition and look forward to a successful future for the business.”
The Oldham brand will remain intact and will operate as an independent company within the IST Platform. IST’s mission is to create a full line of integrated technology-based detection products and services. Oldham joins other brands in the IST family, which together create a comprehensive portfolio of detection products with global reach: Simtronics (based in Norway and France, acquired March 2013): sophisticated gas and flame detection) for use in applications ranging from plant boiler rooms to offshore petrochemical facilities; DSA Detection (headquartered in Massachusetts, acquired October 2012): consumables for leading brands of explosives and narcotics trace detectors (ETD); Detcon (headquartered in Texas, acquired September 2011): gas detection sensors and control systems, with strength in fixed products for the oil and gas market; Gas Measurement Instruments (GMI) (headquartered in Scotland, acquired August 2011): gas detection with a particular strength in portable products for gas distribution, oil and gas, and shipping markets.
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With support for peer-to-peer communication planned for the future, EHPM will allow Preem to incorporate other technologies from Honeywell, to provide an integrated solution that can include continuous and batch processing controls such as Experion C300, safer operations with Safety Manager, and Honeywell's fault tolerant ethernet FTE technology, that offers more robust, faster network diagnostics and improved security.
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