News Archive

March is our end of financial year so is typically a very busy time both in terms of new sales, stock taking and the preparation of end of year accounts.

Bespoke builds included a water intake protection system with instrumentation pre-mounted onto two separate PVC wall panels for installation within an existing building. Continuous on-line measurement included pH, conductivity, DO and turbidity within a dedicated sample tank and the dissolved organics and nitrate probe (free issued) mounted in a separate sample break tank.

In addition, we received a purchase order for a new bespoke analyser kiosk build for a brewery effluent monitoring application. The system will include our Protoc TOC analyser with membrane filtration and sample acquisition. The analyser kiosk will include pre-installation of the instrumentation, consumer unit, individual fused spurs to each appliance, frost protection and lighting.

Wessex Water also placed several purchase orders for a total of four Proam ammonia analysers to be installed to monitor final effluent at various waste water treatment facilities. Additionally, four pH systems were supplied for an industrial monitoring application. Another portable UVT instrument was also supplied to support a UV disinfection process at a UK water treatment plant.

February proved a very busy time for our production department completing many analyser and bespoke builds. New orders were also received for a number of UK and international projects.

A further purchase order was placed for our Proam analyser destined for a project in Severn Trent Water to measure final effluent quality. Additionally, Wessex Water purchased a new pH monitoring system for a waste water treatment facility. Two separate UK international Airports also placed orders for our Protoc TOC analyser technology with Paper Band Filtration to measure surface water quality discharge which can be affected by de-icing activities during winter months. Both Airport sites will require the instrumentation to be pre-mounted onto PVC wall panels, so these can be simply integrated into existing site structures. More to follow once the build has been completed and the installations have been commissioned.

Many new water quality measurement installations were also commissioned during February, including five final effluent turbidity monitoring stations in the NE of England.

We also supplied a further portable UVT instrument for an international project in Turkey.

January has been a busy month performing quality assurance on analyser builds for a number of domestic and international orders received prior to the Christmas shut down in addition to the completion of several bespoke builds.

Four final effluent turbidity monitoring kiosks were commissioned for a UK water company, at the same time as we were building a further five, to provide continuous water quality monitoring on discharges to rivers. A number of portable UVT instruments have also been supplied to water companies needing to maintain and verify their on-line instruments used to control the UV disinfection processes.

Internationally, our Taiwanese distributor Atlas Technology, has placed an order for six Proam ammonia monitors. These will be part of a project with Mega Union Technology Inc. who are a turnkey engineering firm located in Taiwan. The Company not only provides Ultra-Pure water treatment technology but also a design and construction service for wastewater treatment and reclamation plants. Four of the Proam ammonia analysers will be ranged of 0-500mg/l as N and two will have an automatic dilution option, to extend the range up to 6,000mg/l as N.

Furthermore, our Indian distributor - Forbes Marshall, has placed a new order for a Protoc 300 with automatic wash range 0-10ppm for a cooling water monitoring application at a refinery.

December proved to be a busy month for domestic sales and bespoke builds.

Five bespoke turbidity monitoring kiosks are under construction for final effluent monitoring locations throughout the north east of England.

Purchase orders were received for eight Proam ammonia monitors destined for Severn Trent Water, to be installed for continuous final effluent monitoring at various sites. Wessex Water also purchased a Proam ammonia monitor to replace an old instrument which was installed for final effluent compliance measurement some fifteen years ago.

Three MTOL turbidity instruments were purchased by South East Water for continuous potable, treated water monitoring.

Portable UVT instruments were also supplied for two applications. One was purchased by a shipping company so they can perform water quality measurement on ballast water post UV treatment. The other was supplied to a water treatment chemical manufacturer who will predominantly use the UVT meter, for drinking water applications but also within waste water treatment.

Internationally, Our Irish Distributor place a further order for two replacement Protoc 300 TOC analysers with automatic wash, for use on surface water monitoring applications within the pharmaceutical industry.

An influx of new orders has been received this month. Three Proam ammonia monitors have been supplied for final effluent monitoring applications at Severn Trent Water.

Our Chinese agent has also purchased four more Proam ammonia monitors which will be incorporated in their bespoke builds, for aeration control over the measurement range 0-2.00 PPM.

Our Irish distributor has placed orders for two additional Protoc TOC analysers ranged 0-100 PPM TOC for industrial surface water monitoring. We have supplied a further Protoc TOC analyser to an international airport located in the North East of England, to increase their environmental protection. Turbidity and pH instrumentation was supplied for an industrial discharge water quality monitoring application.

Bespoke builds included a small PV system in a bespoke enclosure complete with two solar panels, batteries and GSM data communications, to support a turbidity and nitrate monitoring system, where mains power is not available.

Our Indian distributor also placed an order for a TOC analyser ranged 0-10 PPM to measure condensate return at a petrochemical plant. The instrument will be housed in a secondary enclosure fabricated by Forbes Marshall along with the sample acquisition system.

In addition to the usual contract servicing and commissioning, we have been busy completing new orders and preparing for several bespoke builds.

In September, we received another significant purchase order for eight Proam ammonia analysers from our Chinese distributor who will install these for continuous measurement (0-2.00 PPM as N) of the aeration basin, to control the nitrification treatment process. We also supplied a Proam ammonia analyser for continuous final effluent monitoring to Sevren Trent Water. Additionally, Severn Trent Water purchased a Real Tech portable UVT meter for calibration verification of their on-line instrumentation, used for control of the UV disinfection process.

In October, we received two further purchase orders to supply a Proam ammonia analyser for final effluent measurement to Severn Trent Water. A housing developer also progressed an order for continuous monitoring of nitrate and turbidity, at two locations pre and post treatment, where the later will be supported by a battery/solar recharging kiosk and GSM data communications. South West Water purchased a portable UVT meter manufactured by Real Tech to support their on-line instrumentation used for UV disinfection control.

We also completed our ISO 9001 customer feedback survey for sales completed within the last 12 months. We are pleased to report 100% of these customers were satisfied with our overall performance and 69% totally satisfied. Similarly, we received excellent feedback in all sub-categories such as customer service and the communication element (telephone and written /email contact) as well as Sales and Service support where we received 100% satisfied as the feedback. We also asked our customers to score our performance relative to other companies operating in a similar field; with a mark of five being equivalent so with the average score computed at 8.7 out of 10 for the survey so once we have again performed extremely well.