SUPPLIER’S NOTES (April 02, 1990)

Bailey Controls Group, through parent Elsag, has acquired a controlling interest in the Industrial Controls Division of Schlumberger Industries of France. A new company, Bailey SEREG, has been formed as a result. It will foster co-operation between Schlumberger and Bailey in the fields of process control, industrial automation and Strategic Enterprise Management. The new Bailey division supplies sensors and transmitters, magnetic flow meters, and a complete line of control valves and actuators.

Atlas Copco Canada Inc. has issued an 8-page, full-color leaflet illustrating the ROC 612HC-01 crawler drill. Atlas Copco says this is the ideal rig for all types of road work. An all-hydraulic unit, the ROC 612HC-01 is built for hole diameters of 35-76 mm.

Responsibility for the sale of the patented Nil-Cor valves is being transferred from Dresser’s Industrial Products operation in Mississauga, Ont., to Dresser Valve & Controls in Burlington, Ont. Nil-Cor valves are highly resistant to corrosive fluids.

Pincock, Allen & Holt Inc., international natural resource consultants, has moved its offices to 274 Union Boulevard, Suite 200, Lakewood, Colo.

Amax Coal Co. has purchased two Marion 301-M shovels for its mines in Wyoming. To 3-pass load new 240-ton (218-tonne) trucks at the Belle Ayr mine, Amax ordered one 301-M with an 80-ton (73-tonne) payload dipper rated at 54 cu. yds. (49 cu. metres). Another shovel is being built for the Eagle Butte mine; it will be equipped with a 46-yd. dipper to 3-pass that mine’s 190-ton (172-tonne) haul trucks.

Computer software and hardware from several Canadian firms, including Environmental Systems Research Institute (E.S.R.I.) of Don Mills, Ont.; GeoVision of Ottawa; PAMAP Graphics of Victoria, B.C.; and Tydac Technologies Inc. and Universal Systems Ltd., both of Fredericton, N.B.; have been purchased and installed in the new National Geographic Information Systems Technology Centre of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. The Ottawa centre serves as a computer technology showcase for the Canadian Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Hyatt Industries has opened a full-scale service repair and parts inventory centre at its Vancouver location. The service centre handles all Pruftechnik products, including Optalign, Permalign, Spindalign alignment systems and Eddytherm induction heaters.

Operations of McNally Systems and Dravo Wellman have been combined to form a new company, McNally Wellman Co. The company is a subsidiary of Boliden Allis, an international group of companies which is part of the Trelleborg group of Sweden.

Tydac Technologies’ Arlington, Va.-based subsidiary has been awarded a contract to supply Mitre Corp. of Bedford, Mass., with spans, Tydac’s geographic information system. Spans is being used to analyze, forecast and geographically display air quality benefits of alternative emissions control regulations. Tydac is based in Ottawa.

Austin Powder Co. of Cleveland, Ohio has purchased (for an undisclosed amount of cash) Magnum Explosifs of St. Catherine, Que. The transaction includes all Magnum Explosifs’ equipment, inventory, storage facilities, accounts receivable and accounts payable. Austin is reportedly the world’s oldest explosives company.

Asea Brown Boveri has received a contract worth more than $2 million to build six digitally controlled mine hoist systems in Canada. The systems are to be installed in the Falconbridge’s Kidd Creek zinc-copper mine, in Timmins, Ont. Four systems are for shaft No. 2 and two systems are for the new underground No. 3 shaft. The systems are to be built in St. Laurent, Que. and are due for installation in stages, from March up to December, 1990.

A subsidiary of the Swedish-based Trelleborg group is being set up in Mexico. The subsidiary, Minco Mexicana S.A. de C.V., is based in Ciudad Juarez.

Hyatt Industries has opened a full-scale service repair and parts inventory centre at its Vancouver, B.C. location. The service centre will normally repair a unit in three working days, with shipping time extra. Parts will be shipped within 24 hours of receipt of order.