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Roundtable Meeting Highlights Move Towards Self- Monitoring of Trade Effluents
New Appointment as European Sales Manager
SMI-LabHut (UK) has appointed a European Sales Manager to further develop its 'home' market. A chemistry graduate and former International salesman, Wojciech Pastuszczyn (35) joins LabHut from Bioanalytic in Poland where he was Sales Manager and already has considerable experience with LabHut products.
Commenting on the appointment, Mark Wardle, managing director of SMI-LabHut, said 'this is an important appointment for SMI-LabHut as we have been growing and spending a lot of time in Asia. Having someone based in Poland has the advantage of easy access to Eastern and Northern European countries and will enable us to better service our important European distributors'.
LabHut already has key distribution agreements in the dissolution and chromatography accessory business and has recently secured an agreement for a cutting edge hand-held GC system for pollution monitoring for which Europe is an important market.
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A business-wide roundtable on effective, environmental-monitoring programmes for industry has highlighted an increasing move towards self- monitoring of effluents. Covering a wide range of industrial sectors, such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, metal finishing, waste-water treatment-works and chemicals, this trend has been highlighted at a time when the Environment Agency’s confidence in monitoring equipment is greater than ever. The increasing uptake of electronic methods of data monitoring was also recognised, including the use of plasma screens, text alerts and email alarms to highlight compliance issues. The Environment Agency also predicts that in the future, it will become commonplace to simply view plant effluent-levels remotely online.
The roundtable, which was hosted by the specialist electrochemical-sensor manufacturer, Analytical Technology (UK), included representatives which spanned regulators, industrial-users of monitoring systems, suppliers and installers of monitoring equipment and providers of effluent- treatment solutions. As the need to protect the environment increases and environmental legislation continues to tighten across Europe accordingly, the expert panel, including representatives from the Royal Mint, the Environment Agency (EA), Analytical Technology (ATI), Environmental Monitoring Solutions Ltd. (EMS) and Integrated Effluent Solutions (IES), discussed the challenges associated with complying with regulations and ensuring environmental protection.
Graham Hartry, Environment Manager at the Royal Mint commented: “Traditionally, the EA would conduct spot sampling on site; now, we are required to supply effluent-monitoring data to the EA in order to demonstrate compliance. This is part of a move towards self-monitoring.”
Paul Wiggins, Technical Advisor at the EA added: “Monitoring equipment has improved dramatically in the last ten years and in the majority of cases, we can now rely on operators to monitor their own effluent. As a result, we need to trust the results and that is why our Monitoring Certification Scheme (MCERTS) is important.”
The strength of MCERTS was reinforced by all parties with a consensus that MCERTS equipment is proven to offer greater reliability and longevity. Rick Gould, Technical Advisor at the EA commented: “Since we introduced MCERTS in 1998, it has become essential for all air-monitoring equipment to have this certification and we expect that the water monitoring industry is also moving in this direction. When I took up my role twelve years ago, just eight emissions-monitors, for example, were certified to the MCERTS standards, whereas now this number exceeds one hundred.”
Graham Hartry added: “I would be more inclined to purchase MCERTS equipment even if it is not situated on the final discharge because it gives me more confidence in the accuracy and the life span of the product.”
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