Company Announcements

In January, Environnement debuted a new brand, envea. The brand intends to provide a more complete vision of the firm’s monitoring solutions, together with its high-added value services. The new organization consists of three core businesses: Ambient Air, Industry & Process, and Emissions. The company aims for 2020 annual revenues of €100 million ($112 million). Current revenues total nearly €80 million ($90 million).

The Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise reported in January that Siemens plans to close its Bartlesville, Oklahoma plant, which makes GCs, and transfer operations to a facility in Houston, Texas. Approximately 150 people worked at the Bartlesville plant in 2015. The plant is expected to close by fall 2019.

In March, Polytec named Quantum Design as a Japanese distributor of its process NIR Systems.

Product Introductions

In February, Metrohm Process Analytics launched the 2026 pH Analyzer, an economical online process analyzer. Designed for industrial processes and wastewater streams, it is available in several application-specific configurations for monitoring up to two process streams.

JP3 Measurement launched in March the NIR optical spectroscopy–based Verax SSG (gas analysis) and SSL (liquid analysis) single-stream online oil and gas analyzers. Verax systems measure with flow cells directly in the fluid stream at operating pressure and temperature, requiring no sample transport, sample selection or conditioning systems.

Sales and Orders of Note

In March, Yokogawa Electric announced an order for 190 Yokogawa GC8000 process GCs, its largest order to date for the GC8000. The GCs will be used in the first phase of Zhejiang Petrochemical’s project to construct an integrated refinery and petrochemical production complex at a new industrial site in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China. The first phase is expected to be completed and put into production by the end of December.