WARRENDALE, Penn., May 6, 2002 -- USFilter has chosen Rex Keel to be the vice president of Standard Products for its Industrial Wastewater Systems (IWS) group, the company announced Sunday.
Keel comes to USFilter with more than 20 years of experience in the water industry, where he held leadership positions in sales and international management focusing on growth and global market expansion.
His experience integrating sales, third part representatives, applications engineering and operations teams will be a valuable asset as he manages the global growth of the IWS Products' standards products business.
The Industrial Wastewater Systems group offers water treatment technologies for industrial wastewater treatment, groundwater treatment and purification, process water purification, cooling tower water reuse and metal recovery and water recycling.
Keel will be located in USFilter's Warrendale, Penn. office.
United States Filter Corporation, a Vivendi Environnement company, is North America's largest water company providing comprehensive water and wastewater systems and services to commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers.
Vivendi Environnement (Paris Bourse: VIE and NYSE:VE), comprised of Vivendi Water (worldwide water products and services), Onyx (solid waste and industrial services), Dalkia (energy management), Connex (transportation and logistics) and FCC (Spanish company engaged in environmental and construction related industries), is the largest environmental services company in the world with more than 295,000 employees, including FCC, in about 100 countries and annual revenues of more than $25.6 billion.
Visit the company's web sites at www.usfilter.com or www.vivendienvironnement-finance.com.