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Endress+Hauser Acquires Blue Ocean Nova
Endress+Hauser is further expanding its portfolio of products, solutions and services in the fi eld of process analytical measurement. The Group has acquired Blue Ocean Nova AG, a manufacturer of innovative inline spectrometers for monitoring quality-relevant process parameters. The company’s 15 employees located in Aalen, Germany will be retained.
Analytik Jena and BAM Agree to Cooperate in Research
The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, BAM) and Analytik Jena AG have agreed to cooperate extensively in the research and development of optical spectrometry in the area of elemental analysis. The two parties signed a corresponding cooperation agreement recently in Berlin.
With the process spectrometers from Blue Ocean Nova for the inline analysis of liquids, gases and solids, Endress+Hauser is strengthen- ing its offering for monitoring quality-relevant parameters.
The focus of the two partners’ future research efforts will be on the development of new devices and applications for element determination. In this connection, the teams will work jointly on the further development of the principles and methods of high- resolution absorption spectrometry in order to determine ultratrace concentrations of atoms and molecules.
Blue Ocean Nova will operate under the umbrella of Endress+Hauser’s center of competence for liquid analysis headquartered in Gerlingen, Germany. “The intelligent process sensors developed by Blue Ocean Nova will enhance our offering in the fi eld of process analytical measurement, adding a strategic building block,” says Dr Manfred Jagiella, Managing Director of Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG. As a member of the Group’s Executive Board he is also responsible for the analytics business.
The process sensors developed by Blue Ocean Nova cover the relevant optical spectroscopy regions of UV-VIS, NIR and MIR to analyze liquids, gases and solids inline. The innovative technology allows the spectrometer to be directly integrated into the measurement probe, even in explosion-hazardous areas. The sensors can furthermore be automatically cleaned and easily integrated into process control systems.
The systems from Blue Ocean Nova are utilised in the food & beverage, oil & gas, chemicals and life sciences industries for applications such as concentration and moisture measurements and for measuring relevant quality parameters. The technology enhances the Group’s portfolio, which already encompasses Raman spectroscopy, tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) and process photometers.
Blue Ocean Nova was founded by Joachim Mannhardt and Stefan Beck in 2015, bringing extensive product development experience in the fi eld of industrial spectroscopy and process analytical measurements to the company. “Endress+Hauser opens the door to international markets and customers for us,” explains Stefan Beck. Joachim Mannhardt adds: “We’re convinced that our technology will be an ideal enhancement to Endress+Hauser’s optical portfolio.”
Endress+Hauser acquired Blue Ocean Nova effective 31 October 2017. Both parties agreed not to disclose the details of the transaction. Joachim Mannhardt and Stefan Beck will remain on the management team of the innovative company. “With this acquisition, we are continuing to pursue our strategy of strengthening the process analytical measurement portfolio and in the future supporting our customers from the lab to process,” says Manfred Jagiella.
Multimillion Investments by Petrochemical Giants in Antwerp
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Totseanergy, the new joint venture by the Total oil company (through its trading arm Totsa) and the SEA-Invest group (through its tank storage division SEA-Tank) is to invest 100 million euros in the new Totseanergy Terminal at the head of the Hansa dock and the 6th Harbour dock.
The investment comprises eight new tanks with a capacity of 20,000 m³ each, three additional loading and unloading bays and a pipeline between the terminal and the Total refi nery. Antwerp Port Authority has undertaken to increase the depth alongside quay to 15.5 m.
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Since 2010 SEA-Tank has already invested 250 million euros in construction of a tank storage farm of 860,000 m³ for Total and its trading division Totsa Total Oil. This additional investment will give Total a combined capacity of more than 100 million m³ in the course of 2019.
Total has been operating in the port of Antwerp since 1951. In more recent years together with SEA-Invest it has played a signifi cant role in doubling the volume of liquid bulk handled by the port. The current investment will give the refi nery greater fl exibility and enable it to operate more effi ciently. The new tanks will take up around a quarter of the space available in the terminal, leaving plenty of room for further expansion.
This choice by Total and SEA-Invest once more confi rms the strategic position of Antwerp as a petrochemical hotspot, demonstrating the strong belief by industrial and logistics operators in the value of having a long- term presence in the port.
Evonik for its part has announced that it is to invest tens of millions of euros in expanding its production capacity for special silica. The chemical concern has chosen its Antwerp site for the expansion “because of its central location and the modern port facilities,” according to spokesman Danny Erreweyaert. With this investment Evonik is cementing its position as the world’s largest supplier of silica, used as an ingredient in paints and lacquers, modern adhesive systems, transparent silicones and fi re-resistant, high-grade insulation materials.
“With the expansion of our capacity in Antwerp we seek to drive the market growth for pyrogenic silica in Europe and other important export markets,” says Johannes Ohmer, member of the management committee of Evonik Resource Effi ciency GmbH. With 10 production units and more than 1,000 employees Evonik Antwerp is one of the largest Evonik sites in the world.
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The Total refi nery and its logistics partner SEA-Invest are together investing 100 million in a big capacity expansion in the port of Antwerp. The chemical giant Evonik for its part has selected the port as the ideal location to boost the market growth of pyrogenic silica. Meanwhile ATPC has just broken the fi rst ground for an LNG/ethane tank farm. Together, the various investments will help to assure the long-term presence of these big chemical and petrochemical operators in Antwerp.
“Within the framework of our research activities, it is important to us to network closely with partners from the scientifi c and user community and to involve these partners early on in the process of developing and implementing ideas,” says Ulrich Krauss, CEO of Analytik Jena AG. “We want to develop marketable products from a knowledge and transfer network consisting of clients in collaboration with partners from research institutes.”
BAM President Prof. Ulrich Panne elaborates: “We are pleased to be able to refi ne analysis using High-Resolution Continuum Source AAS (HR-CS AAS) technology in joint research with Analytik Jena AG. This approach also offers wide-ranging opportunities for our up-and-coming scientifi c talent.”
Elementar Undergo a Smooth Management Transition
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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.
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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.
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