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Endress+Hauser Inaugurates New Campus in Lyon


Sales Center and Kaiser Optical Systems European headquarters together under one roof


Endress+Hauser has invested 4.9 million euros in a new building in Lyon. As well as 25 sales and service employees from Endress+Hauser, nine employees from the European headquarters of Kaiser Optical Systems will move into the new facility.


Inauguration in France (from left): Bruno Lenain (Managing Director of Kaiser Optical Systems Europe), Laurent Mulley (Managing Director of Endress+Hauser France), Gilles Gascon (Mayor of Saint-Priest), Klaus Endress (Supervisory Board President of the Endress+Hauser Group), Matthias Altendorf (CEO of the Endress+Hauser Group), Tim Harrison (CEO of Kaiser Optical Systems) and Serge Cheynel (Director of Regional Sales, Endress+Hauser France) cut the ribbon.


“The new building offers modern offi ces for our employees and abundant space for customer training,” says Laurent Mulley, Managing Director of Endress+Hauser France, who is delighted with the new facility. “At the same time we are bringing together Endress+Hauser’s process control technology and the advanced analysis processes of Kaiser Optical Systems under a single roof. We are thus laying a foundation that will allow us to strengthen our presence in the French market over the long term,” added Laurent Mulley during the dedication ceremony that was attended by customers, as well as guests from business and government.


“One of the cornerstones of our strategy is to one day support our customers’ lab and process control applications,” explained Matthias Altendorf, CEO of the Endress+Hauser Group. “Having Endress+Hauser and Kaiser Optical Systems in proximity in Lyon illustrates the progress we are making in carrying out this strategy.” Expanding the business in the area of process control and laboratory analysis refl ects the wishes of many customers for enhanced quality parameter measurements.


The new energy-effi cient offi ce building is located near Lyon–Bron airport, in one of the fastest-growing business regions in France. The building houses 1,500 square meters of offi ce space, warehouse facilities, a training center and a presentation room for customer training. With a total of around 7,000 square meters of space, the campus offers suffi cient room to grow the location further.


The primary benefi ciaries of the collaboration between Endress+Hauser and Kaiser Optical Systems are customers in the life sciences, chemical, water & wastewater, food & beverage and oil & gas industries. American-based Kaiser Optical Systems was acquired by Endress+Hauser in 2013. The company’s Raman spectroscopy analysers are designed for examining the composition and properties of liquid, gas and solid materials.


Close cooperation: Endress+Hauser, and its subsidiary Kaiser Optical Systems, a specialist in state-of-the-art analysers, move into a new facility in Lyon.


Restek Wins


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Company of the Year


Restek was recdently awarded Company of the Year from The Pennsylvaniaand Delaware Chapter of The Employee Stock Ownership/ Option Plan(ESOP) Association during its annual conference on September 14 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.


This is the second time Restek has won the award, having also received the honor in 2007. Over the years, many ESOP conferences have included a Restek employee as a session speaker,


and two employees have also won the chapter’s Employee-Owner of the Year award.


“Employees at Restek are fully engaged in the ownership culture. They also have done wonderful work in advocacy both in Pennsylvania and in Washington D.C. Restek is very deserving of this award and should be a top contender to win the national award at The ESOP Association meeting next May,” Jeff Gelburd, Chapter President, said. The PA/DE chapter is one of 18 that provide educational services and resources to its members across the country.


An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is a business structure in which the employees of the company are also owners. Restek transitioned to 100% ESOP on Dec. 31, 2008.


“Restek is a family-oriented company that is owned by its employees. While our business is scientifi c, our culture is all about teamwork and taking care of our fellow employees so that we can better serve our customers and our community. We are honoured to be recognised by the ESOP Association and encouraged to continue serving others through our business, our charity, and our ESOP advocacy,” said Bryan Wolcott, Restek President and Head Coach.


With over 450 employees across the U.S., China, Japan, Italy, France, Germany, and the UK, Restek has earned a reputation in the scientifi c community for unbeatable Plus 1 service and innovative, top-quality chromatography products. Analysts rely on Restek products to monitor the quality and safety of air, water, soil, food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and petroleum.


Recently, Restek, along with the PA Center for Employee Ownership, taught students from South Hills School of Business and Technology in State College, PA, about employee ownership and the benefi ts of working for an employee-owned company. Students from three majors—business, information technology, and graphics—took a tour of Restek’s facility, attended an in-lab chromatography demonstration, and received education about ESOPs and Restek—as well what Restek does for the community and the environment.


In addition to this most recent recognition, Restek has been named one of PA’s best places to work several times and has also been named one of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Small Workplaces.


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After 26 years as CEO, Dr. Hans-Peter Sieper, founder and president of Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH, will hand the reigns over to his son, Albrecht Sieper, who has already been responsible for marketing and sales as Elementar’s managing director since 2014. Dr. Sieper will now head up the supervisory board of the company.


Elementar was created in 1990 when Dr. Sieper acquired a section of analytical instrumentation technology from Heraeus, a company with a 120 year heritage of technical excellence. Within less than three decades of Dr. Sieper’s investment, Elementar have become a leading global provider of elemental analysers in a host of markets including environmental analysis, QA/QC, energy effi ciency and forensics. Elementar now enjoy worldwide success with 8 daughter companies across the globe and a 85% share of their export market in over 80 countries.


Dr Hans-Peter Sieper studied chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University, in Jena. He graduated in Molecular Spectroscopy before spending 45 years working in the analytical instrumentation market with Carl Zeiss, also in Jena, followed by Heraeus and fi nally, Elementar. He has used his vast knowledge and experience of application, product and development strategy, sales, marketing and fi nance management to great effect throughout his career and will continue to do so in his new role.


Albrecht Sieper is graduate engineer in mechanical engineering (TU Darmstadt) as well as MBA (Steinbeis Hochschule). His career started at BMW’s R&D Center in Munich with a focus on knowledge management. He has worked in leading positions at Elementar for 13 years in a variety of roles such as R&D, production, marketing, sales and administration where not only did he gain detailed knowledge of each discipline but he also introduced plenty of his own innovative ideas and solution. The change in the managerial generation has been planned for a long time and sets the precondition for the further successful development of Elementar.


Baker Hughes and KBC Partner to Provide Integrated Process and Operational Software


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Solutions to the Oil and Gas Industry Baker Hughes, a GE company and KBC a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, announce a preferred partnership that will provide a combination of process simulation, asset performance management and operational software solutions to the oil and gas industry.


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Leveraging GE’s Predix, the platform for the industrial internet, to deliver one unifi ed view, this partnership extends KBC’s Petro-SIM process simulation modeling further into the fullstream oil and gas value chain, and provides connectivity between operations, assets, people and business processes for end-to- end optimisation.


Integrating KBC technology with BHGE’s suite of digital solutions will allow customers to reduce bottlenecks in facilities, processes and equipment to achieve optimal production and lower risk. By integrating data analytics connected by seamless workfl ows between facilities and operations, the time spent to analyse operations will be signifi cantly reduced and the insight gained will increase production, reduce energy usage and improve product quality consistency.


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Endress+Hauser France has more than 250 employees at its headquarters in Huningue and at offi ces in Paris, Bordeaux and Lyon. As well as the French market, the Sales Center also oversees the Group’s business in French-speaking Africa. Kaiser Optical Systems has 76 employees at its headquarters in Ann Arbor/Michigan, where the production facilities are co-located. The nine employees assigned to the Lyon offi ce are coordinating the European sales activities.


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