Moore Process Automation Solutions, Spring House, Pa., has named William B. Moore vice president of business development and Peter F. Schiano to replace him as vice president of systems research and development.
Moore, who remains vice chairman of the board of directors, will apply his extensive industry knowledge and experience to coordinate the long-term technology and business strategies for the company.
Schiano will be responsible for systems R&D, including APACS+trademark and QUADLOGRegistered hardware, communications, and software. He has held a variety of R&D and manufacturing management positions at Moore, including development leader for the Moore 353 Process Automation Controller and director of manufacturing.
Moore Process Automation Solutions provides innovative solutions to process measurement and control challenges. The company's instruments and control systems help increase plant safety and productivity, reduce time-to-market and improve product quality in industries such as chemical, pharmaceutical, oil & gas, refining, power, and pulp & paper. Moore Process Automation Solutions is the operational name for Moore Products Co.
Flow Products, Inc. and CPS Southeast, Inc., Baton Rouge-based companies specializing in industrial equipment and services, have announced name changes and consolidation under a new parent company, TOPCOR Companies, L.L.C. Flow Products is now FLOWCOR Products, Inc., a TOPCOR Companies Affiliate. CPS Southeast is now TOPCOR Services, Inc., a TOPCOR Companies Affiliate.
Todd Lusk will serve as president of TOPCOR Companies and remain as president of FLOWCOR Products. James Baker will remain as president of TOPCOR Services and serve as executive vice president of TOPCOR Companies.
FLOWCOR Products is a distributor and representative for corrosion resistant process equipment and civil engineering products for the chemical, petrochemical and pulp & paper markets.
TOPCOR Services is a specialty contractor offering concrete restoration and protection services, as well as specialized industrial services such as tank linings, FRP pipe and structural fabrication and fireproofing.
ABB has named Mike Mason managing director of its expanded instrumentation business in the UK, following the successful merger with Elsag Bailey.
Mason was previously UK managing director of Elsag Bailey and takes responsibility for all ABB's instrumentation activities throughout the UK. These include the Control Valve division (formerly ABB Kent Introl), a provider of control and choke valves based at Brighouse, West Yorkshire; the Process Instrumentation division (formerly ABB Kent-Taylor) which manufactures controllers and recorders, transmitters, flow meters and water analysers with principal locations at St. Neots, Cambrigeshire, and Stonehouse, Gloucestershire; and Elsag Bailey Instrumentation which includes the Fischer and Porter and Bush Beach engineering facilities in Workington, Cheadle and Telford. Mason will also have responsibility for the Process Analytics division in Telford, St. Neots and Chester.
The automation systems activities of Elsag Bailey UK will become part of Stevenage-based ABB Industrial Systems Ltd. Sales, project implementation and support of the Symphony and Freelance range of process control systems and after sales support of the Bailey Controls, Fischer and Porter, and Hartmann and Braun installed base of systems will be incorporated into the Projects and Automation Div. under the leadership of Steve Brown, director and general manager, reporting to managing director David Denton.
The ABB Group serves customers worldwide in power generation, transmission, and distribution; automation; oil, gas, and petrochemicals; industrial products and contracting; and financial services.
Zeolyst International, Valley Forge, Pa., has named Andries Boon business manager of the specialty catalysts business. Boon will be based in Woking, U.K., with worldwide responsibilities.
He will manage Zeolyst's xylene isomerization catalyst business, including optimization modeling of catalyst and recycle streams to select the proper catalyst for optimum performance in each customer's unit. He will also assist in the development of new zeolitic catalysts in cooperation with customers, and manage the delivery of catalysts to Zeolyst's parent and partner companies.
Zeolyst International is a supplier of zeolite catalysts and adsorbents, including both standard zeolites and custom powders and catalysts.
ABB Extrel, Pittsburgh, Pa., has named Luke Kephart vice president, general manager, including Process and General Purpose Mass Spectrometers (MS) and components for the Mass Spectrometer. Kephart will be responsible for product marketing, product development and continuing engineering, and all operations involved in the manufacturing of these products for the worldwide market including inside sales (quote/order management), applications engineering, and production (materials, production planning, production, and test). He will be supported by the human resources, information technology, and financial organizations located in Pittsburgh and Lewisburg.
Kephart has been with ABB Extrel for ten years, most recently as BU manager, product development.
ABB Extrel is a division of ABB Process Analytics and a unit of ABB Automation, serving customers in power generation, transmission, and distribution; automation; oil, gas, and petrochemicals; industrial products and contracting; and financial services.
