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De Laval Separator To

Become Alfa-Laval, Inc.

The De Laval Separator Com- pany, well-known in the marine industry, will change its name to

Alfa-Laval, Inc., and simultane- ously move its corporate and in- dustrial, food and dairy market- ing headquarters to Ft. Lee, N.J.,

March 1, 1980.

The name change, according to

Kees Sonius, president, empha- sizes the U.S. company's close re- lationship with its parent corpo- ration, Alfa-Laval, the world's largest producer of centrifuges for marine and industrial use, compact heat exchangers, and milking machines. The company is also well-known for its chem- ical process systems and liquid processing equipment for indus- trial plants. Alfa-Laval AB is headquartered in Tumba, Sweden.

Along with Alfa-Laval, the company will continue to utilize its well-known trade names in- cluding De Laval® centrifuges and agricultural equipment, American

Heat™ compact heat exchangers,

Contherm® scraped-surface heat exchangers, and G&H® valves, pumps and fittings.

At the time of the name change to Alfa-Laval, Inc., the company will move its corporate and indus- trial divisions to 2115 Linwood

Avenue, Ft. Lee, N.J. 07024. The

Ft. Lee location, a new five-story building, is adjacent to Interstate 80 95 at the western end of the

Artist's conception of the new Alfa-Laval corporate headquarters in Fort Lee, N.J.

George Washington Bridge. This move will allow the company to centralize its many industrial di- visions in one headquarters lo- cation.

Alfa-Laval, Inc. will continue to operate its manufacturing plants in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Somer- ville, N.J., Lykens, Pa., Newbury- port, Mass., and Kenosha, Wis. $6 Million Florida

Terminal Expansion

McDowell-Wellman Company,

Cleveland, Ohio, has been author- ized to proceed with design and detailed engineering plans for the expansion of a major Florida phosphate shiploading terminal by

Seaboard Coast Lines Railroad, owner and operator of the ter- minal in Tampa. The expansion project, when completed, would be valued in excess of $6 million.

Phosphate throughput capacity at SCL's Rockport Terminal will be expanded to 8.5 million tons annually. New plant facilities will include a unit-train rotary car dumper, additional storage and reclaiming conveyors, expanded dock area and a new ship berth.

Travel distance of the traveling shiploader will be lengthened as well, so that either of two berthed vessels may be loaded.

The McDowell-Wellman engi- neering phase of the expansion project is expected to be com- pleted in nine months.

Hitachi Delivered 22 Ships In '79

Hitachi Zosen has announced it launched 15 vessels totaling 397,846 deadweight tons and de- livered 22 ships having an ag- gregate of 778,109 tons in 1979.

In 1978, the yard launched 21 ships amounting to 527,444 tons and delivered 22 vessels whose total deadweight was 1,215,816 tons.

Of the vessels delivered last year, 13 totaling 442,813 tons were for export account. The year before, the yard delivered 19 ves- sels totaling 1,088,696 tons to for- eign owners.

In December 1979, Hitachi re- ceived orders for a total of three 60,000-deadweight-ton bulk car- riers.

Two of the vessels are for

Aksjeselskapet Kosmos, a mem- ber of Norway's Anders Jahre

Group, and one is for Epos Ma- rine Corp. of Liberia. All three vessels are Hitachi's standard

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