WaterBriefs: Rolled Alloys announces acquisition of SMS Alloys

In other news below:
-- Telvent appoints Simulation Sales Manager
-- Transpo goes green
-- AbTech Industries appoints Director of Corporate Development
-- Ecosphere shows mobile water purification system to FEMA
-- Briefing on water management in Massachusetts
-- Southwest Water Company names DeLise L. Keim Vice President, Corporate Communications
-- JMAR Technologies appoints Michael Sweatman Chief Financial Officer
-- Special research report on Israeli water technology and water management report to be released
-- MIR3 Intelligent Notification unveils industry-first global emergency notification system

• Rolled Alloys announces acquisition of SMS Alloys
TEMPERANCE, MI, March 21, 2007 -- Rolled Alloys, an internationally recognized supplier of heat resistant, corrosion resistant, high temperature and titanium alloy products, has announced the recent acquisition of SMS Alloys. Located in the city of Lyon, approximately 260 miles south of Paris, this 16,000 square foot facility serves aerospace and corrosion resistant alloy customers throughout Central Europe and beyond.

As part of the Rolled Alloys global family, the location will continue operations and be known as SMS Alloys. SMS Alloys presently stocks sheet, plate, bar, and tube products, in both aerospace and corrosion resistant alloys. This location will now become Rolled Alloys' primary stocking location in Central Europe, and will complement the UK facility in Blackburn, England.

Also see:
-- Rolled Alloys opens new operation in China

Among other recent headlines:

• Telvent appoints Simulation Sales Manager
BALTIMORE, MD, March 20, 2007 -- Larry Stack, President of Telvent's Energy Division, is pleased to announce the appointment of Anthony (Tony) Collins to the position of Simulation Sales Manager. In addition to being responsible for managing and further developing Telvent's pipeline simulation business in North America, Collins will also play an integral role in implementing the growth strategy for this critical technology sector on a worldwide basis...

• Transpo goes green
NEW ROCHELLE, NY, March 21, 2007 -- A city in Connecticut expanded its effort to keep stormwater runoff from entering Nowalk harbor and Long Island Sound by adding forty-five catch basin filters to stormdrains at Veterans Memorial Park. These EnviroSafe^™ installations, funded by a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, took place in the park on a cold and windy day in mid-January...

• AbTech Industries appoints Director of Corporate Development
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, March 21, 2007 -- AbTech Industries, a leading environmental technologies firm dedicated to providing customized clean water solutions, announced today the appointment of Austin Meyermann to Director of Corporate Development. As a senior member of the management team, Meyermann will be instrumental in identifying perspective markets to further develop the implementation of company's patented water filtration technology...
Also see: -- "AbTech Industries appoints Les Devitt as Vice President of Sales and Marketing"

• Ecosphere shows mobile water purification system to FEMA
Ecosphere enables FEMA to drink from the Potomac River in clean water technology demo
STUART, FL, March 21, 2007 -- Ecosphere Technologies Inc., a provider of clean air and water technology solutions that solve business and environmental challenges, announced the first official demonstration of its Mobile Water Purification System (MWPS) to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). During a March 2, 2007 demonstration, the MWPS was employed on the banks of the Potomac River to convert river water directly into clean drinking water for decision-makers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security...

• Briefing on water management in Massachusetts
State Representative Geoffrey Hall meets with ENSR
WESTFORD, MA, March 21, 2007 -- Massachusetts State Representative Geoffrey Hall met this month with staff from ENSR to discuss pressing environmental issues in Massachusetts. ENSR, an AECOM company and leading global environmental services company, is based in Representative Hall's district in Middlesex County, Massachusetts...
Also see:
-- "Bruce Gordon joins ENSR as Managing Director, United Kingdom and Ireland"
-- "ENSR names new Managing Director of European Operations"
-- "ENSR opens new office in London"

• Southwest Water Company names DeLise L. Keim Vice President, Corporate Communications
LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2007 -- Southwest Water Company has announced the promotion of DeLise L. Keim to Vice President, Corporate Communications, responsible for designing and implementing the company's public, investor and employee communications plans...
Also see:
-- "Southwest Water acquires Mississippi utility"
-- "Southwest Water acquires utility in Southeast Texas"

• JMAR Technologies appoints Michael Sweatman Chief Financial Officer
SAN DIEGO, CA, March 21, 2007 -- JMAR Technologies, Inc. announced that it has appointed Michael Sweatman as its Chief Financial Officer. Sweatman has extensive experience as a senior financial executive. He has been the Managing General Partner of Green Mountain Capital, L.P., a successful Vermont-based Small Business Investment Company, for the past fifteen years. Sweatman is currently winding down the operations of Green Mountain as he takes on the duties of CFO for JMAR...
Also see: -- "JMAR's BioSentry to be installed in largest water company in The Netherlands"

• Special research report on Israeli water technology and water management report to be released
PRINCETON, NJ, March 21, 2007 -- IncreMental Advantage announced today that it will release its unique research report on "Israeli Water Technology and Water Management" in late March...

• MIR3 Intelligent Notification unveils industry-first global emergency notification system
'Anywhere Enterprise' features preferred call routing, incident management and topic subscription
ORLANDO, FL, March 25, 2007 -- MIR3^™, the technology leader in Intelligent Notification^™ (IN) solutions for global enterprises, introduced a first-of-a-kind global emergency notification system at the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) Spring World 2007 conference in Orlando, Florida...

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