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Saudi Aramco Selects CTG Ballast Water Testing Device


Oil producer Saudi Aramco has selected Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG), designer and manufacturer of sensors for the maritime sector, to provide benchmark testing for compliance with ballast water standards. This follows Saudi Aramco’s announcement that all ships calling at its ports and terminals will be required to provide ballast water samples, in order to demonstrate compliance with the International Maritime Organization’s Ballast Water Management Convention.


CTG’s FastBallast portable ballast water analyzer has been chosen by Saudi Aramco and will be deployed as a benchmark testing device to conduct spot checks on indicative sampling undertaken by third-party sampling companies. FastBallast was selected following a detailed technical review conducted by Saudi Aramco’s in-house marine biology experts.


Together with Global Strategic Alliance Saudi Arabia (GSA), its agent for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, CTG has also provided consultancy and guidance to Saudi Aramco’s in-house experts on the testing and sampling standards and processes that should be put in place to ensure compliance with IMO standards. In addition, GSA is working closely with the Saudi Arabia authorities to utilize FastBallast as the national benchmark for indicative ballast water sampling.


Dr Brian Phillips, Managing Director of Chelsea Technologies, commented, “It is testament to the confi dence of Saudi Aramco in the unrivalled accuracy and reliability of FastBallast that it has been selected as the gold standard for ballast water sampling in ensuring compliance with the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention. Together with GSA, our sole agent in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, we look forward to working together with Saudi Aramco to ensure that all third-party ballast water sampling meets the high standards of compliance now required of all vessels calling at Saudi Aramco ports and terminals from international waters. We are proud of the role that FastBallast will play in creating the national benchmark for ballast water sampling and, in doing so, helping to protect Saudi Arabia’s marine environment.”


Saudi Aramco ports and terminals are considered the highest receiver of ballast water from ships, with over 180 million tons of ballast water discharged during cargo operations every year.


Saudi Arabia ratifi ed IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention during April 2017, through a Royal Decree signed by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz, activating the adoption of a national ballast water management strategy, which includes indicative sampling of ballast water.


Global Strategic Alliance Saudi Arabia (GSA), CTG’s sole agent in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, was invited by Saudi Aramco to participate in a workshop held in Saudi Aramco headquarters in Dhahran on 26th July 2017. The workshop was held to facilitate the launch of ballast water indicative sampling at all Saudi Aramco ports and terminals and was attended by GSA’s CEO, Adnan Bahamdein, and GSA’s Operations Director, Ramachandran Kumar.


GSA is also working closely with CTG to make its FastBallast onboard indicative ballast sampling devices available to ship owners and operators throughout Saudi Arabia and other GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries.


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Ion Science Completes Move into New Purpose-built £4.5 Million Facility


Ion Science have completed their move into a new ultra-modern state-of- the-art £4.5 million, 1500m² facility geared to meet their ambitious global growth plans for advanced VOC monitors.


Located in Fowlmere in Great Britain, the fl exible new plant has been purpose-built to meet current and short-term needs, as well as refl ect the on-going ambitions of the business, which continues to achieve 30% year- on-year growth.


Featuring a technologically advanced yet sympathetic design, which provides the effect of a cluster of smaller, low level agricultural type buildings, the facility has been specially constructed to achieve the highest possible hygiene, quality and environmental standards.


Duncan Johns, Managing Director at Ion Science comments: “Ion Science is excited to declare our new facility open and fully operational. This is a massive milestone in the company’s 27-year history and we’re looking forward to having the administration, sales and production capacity to achieve further expansion in both new and previously untapped markets and territories.”


“We like to play hard as well as work hard at Ion Science so the building has been designed to offer a fantastic working environment with well-equipped break-out


spaces, lovely landscaped gardens and other outside recreational areas for staff and visitors to enjoy.


Duncan adds: “I would also like to take this opportunity to thank employees for their patience, dedication and hard work in helping get the plant operational within the allotted timeframe.


“The future for Ion Science and its staff, distributor network and offi ces in the USA, France and Italy looks extremely bright. With the new facility, we’re now ideally positioned to focus on further expanding our presence in global occupational health and environmental monitoring applications,” Duncan concludes.


As well as investment in the building itself, Ion Science has installed the latest cutting-edge production equipment including a Weiss Technik fl oor-standing temperature and climatic control chamber to ensure the on-going quality and safety of its handheld and fi xed photoionisation detectors (PIDs).


To facilitate the in-house production of printed circuit boards (PCB), Ion Science has also installed an advanced iineo Europlacer SMT pick and place complete production line system. Offering a high level of fl exibility and feeder count, it is widely confi gurable without the need to compromise on placement speed or component capability and delivers complete manufactured items without human intervention.


Zehlendorf Charity Run for Schools in Nepal is Organised “All for Water, Water for all”


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Around 300 cheerful runners from six Zehlendorf companies, the 4b class of Buschgraben elementary school and several african inhabitants from the accomodation center of Hohentwielsteig gathered for a charity run. Under the motto “All for water, water for all”, they collected over 7.000 Euro by foot.


Clean water and a basic understanding for hygiene are taken for granted by us, but for more as one billion people, it seems just as a dream to open the water tap to drink from it. Therefore, the collected money will be donated to the association VIVA CON AGUA DE SANKT PAULI e.V.. The association collects money for the supply of clean drinking water, for sanitary systems and for the organization of hygiene training.


KNAUER organizes a Social Day each year where coworkers can participate for a good cause. Participation this year was very


impressive, companies from the local industrial parks of Hegauer Weg and Hohentwielsteig confi rmed their participation happily once more, these included HACH LANGE, MTS Systems, KARL WEISS Technologies, PENTA Gebäudeservice , Detlef Janke Galvanik and inhabitants from the local accomodation center also participated in this event.


I was once again impressed by the high commitment and drive of all fellow campaigners which ran along for this good cause. I am proud that KNAUER started this event with so much success. It is important that we as a company think outside the box and do something together to help children, in this case children in Nepal“, Alexandra Knauer reports, CEO of KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH.


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