7/20/16

PRNewswire

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. was recently honored by Airbus with three awards as part of Airbus's 2015 Supply Chain and Quality Improvement Program (SQIP). The annual program recognizes top suppliers for excellence and sustainable performance on serial production. UTC Aerospace Systems' Actuation & Propeller Systems (APS) and Interiors businesses received Best Performer Awards, and the Sensors & Integrated Systems (SIS) business was recognized with a Best Improver Award at a ceremony in Toulouse, France.    

The APS business earned the Best Performer Award for the team's performance at Ratier-Figeac, a French aviation company, which is a part of UTC Aerospace Systems and its APS business. Ratier-Figeac delivered 2,330 units to Airbus in 2015 with a 100 percent on-time delivery and zero parts-per-million, or zero defects. Units delivered included trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuators and throttle control assemblies for A380 and A400M aircrafts, and side-stick units and single-aisle and long-range door actuators for all programs.

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7/7/16

New Jersey Business

Honeywell announced it has signed an agreement to acquire privately held, supply chain and warehouse automation leader Intelligrated for $1.5 billion from a company backed by the Permira funds. The purchase price translates to approximately 12 times Intelligrated's estimated 2016 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). The company's 2016 sales are estimated to be approximately $900 million.

The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review. Upon approval, Intelligrated will be part of Sensing and Productivity Solutions (S&PS) in Honeywell's Automation and Control Solutions business.

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7/5/16

Fike

Blue Springs, MO -- Looking to fill a key position to address a rapidly expanding global market, Fike has promoted David Kemp to Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, effective immediately. In this role, Kemp will head sales and marketing efforts for all Fike product lines worldwide.
 
Kemp, who previously served as Fike's Executive Director of Sales for the Americas, will now manage a global sales and distribution network focused on expanding market share with current customers as well as building business in underserved industries.

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7/5/16

By Charles Alcock
AIN Online

Four years on from the merger that brought Goodrich and Hamilton Sundstrand together to form UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS), the combined group has quietly established itself as the industry's largest and most diverse systems specialist. With annual revenues of around $14.3 billion, UTAS is about twice as large as any of its rivals and at a pre-Farnborough show press briefing, its president David Gitlin predicted that it will sustain an average annual compound growth rate of around 6 percent, due mainly to the fact that on new aircraft programs such as the Bombardier C Series and the new Boeing Max and Airbus Neo narrowbodies, it has around twice the equipment content as on the aircraft these are replacing.

For today's complex aircraft programs, UTAS is firmly of the conviction that bigger is better when it comes to being able to deliver strong engineering resources. "The big OEMs are looking for partners with the capability to step up and deal with complex programs and be able to reach for whatever technology they need," said engineering v-p Geoff Hunt.

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7/21/16

StreetInsider

Tyco International plc announced that it expects to close its merger with Johnson Controls, Inc. on September 2, 2016. The company also announced that its Board of Directors has declared an accelerated dividend of $0.23 per ordinary share, payable on August 26, 2016, to shareholders of record at the close of NYSE trading on August 5, 2016.

The accelerated dividend is in addition to the regular third quarter dividend scheduled to be paid on August 17, 2016 to shareholders of record on July 22, 2016. This accelerated dividend pulls forward the quarterly dividend that Tyco would have declared in its fiscal fourth quarter, and is intended to align dividend payments made to shareholders of Tyco and Johnson Controls prior to the closing of the merger. Closing of the merger is contingent upon, among other things, the approval of proposals related to the merger by shareholders of each company. The special meetings for shareholders of Tyco and Johnson Controls are scheduled for August 17, 2016.

 

An Egyptair plane aircraft landed at Cairo Airport, Egypt July 13, 2016. (Reuters)

7/23/16

Al Arabiya English

An EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean in May likely broke up in midair after a fire erupted in or near the cockpit, the New York Times reported.

However it remains unclear whether the blaze was triggered by mechanical malfunction or a criminal act, Egyptian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Times.

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7/6/16

By Sharon Masige
Australian Mining

The Victorian Government is implementing the fire protection maintenance standard AS1851 - 2012 for routine servicing of fire protection systems and equipment in all new and existing buildings.

Victoria is the last of all Australian states and territories to adopt the standard, enabling national businesses to streamline the maintenance of fire protection systems and equipment across their operations.

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7/5/16

APF Magazine

Tyco is introducing the fire alarm industry's first addressable notification appliances with individual on/off audio control - a new innovation in notification technology that promises to enhance protection, reduce costs and simplify building operations.

The new line of intelligent SIMPLEX TrueAlert ES audio speakers takes notification to another level of capability, safety and value for architects and engineers, installing contractors, building owners and facility managers. TrueAlert ES speakers are specially designed to provide high quality audio output, improved aesthetics, and targeted emergency message delivery. At the same time, the speakers offer all the other benefits of the SIMPLEX TrueAlert ES family of fully addressable notification appliances, including easier, more flexible system design, cost-effective installation, and revolutionary device self-testing.

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7/4/16

APF Magazine

The Solberg Company, the world's foremost innovator of firefighting foam concentrates and systems hardware announced the appointment of James Perriss as General Manager, Asia-Pacific Region.

Mr. Perriss entered the fire protection business in 2006 serving in various sales, business development and management capacities. Most recently as Regional Sales Manager, Oceania. James joined Solberg back in 2011 from Chubb Fire & Security where he held the position of Major Accounts Manager covering the oil & gas, petrochemical, marine and industrial market sectors.

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7/20/16

By Raymond Grill, PE, FSFPE; and Richard J. Petrey, EIT, Arup
Consulting - Specifying Engineer

NFPA has issued the latest version of NFPA 72: National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code in the 2016 edition. The goal of the revision process is to provide NFPA 72 users with rules that both comprehensively and accurately reflect the field of fire alarm design, installation, inspection, testing, and maintenance.

It is imperative to remain up to date with changes to the code, because they take into account advances in technology as well as address any issues that may have needed adjustment from the previous version of the code. Review the latest edition of the code for the complete picture of the changes.

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7/10/16

By Kevin Miller, Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald

BRUNSWICK, ME -- The Navy has tested several dozen residential wells on the outskirts of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station for the presence of a chemical suspected of posing health risks.

Officials from the Navy and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection say the voluntary water tests are aimed at determining whether the chemicals - perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs - are migrating in groundwater beyond known contamination sites on the former air base. Formerly a common ingredient in flame suppressants and household products such as nonstick cookware, PFCs have been shown to affect organ function in animals and are being intensely studied for impacts on humans.

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7/25/16

By Brooke Sutherland
BloombergGadfly

You could be forgiven for overlooking it, but Honeywell did have some other news for shareholders besides its underwhelming sales outlook.

The $88 billion company is splitting its automation and control division into two separate businesses, with one focused on safety and productivity products like rugged mobile computers, sensors and hard hats and another focused on building technologies like HVAC and fire-safety systems. For now, this is just an internal reorganization that Honeywell says will make each business more nimble and help streamline decision-making processes. And honestly, it makes a lot of sense -- safety goggles don't seem to have a whole lot to do with air conditioners. But could this be a prelude to a more significant breakup?

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7/7/16

IFSEC Global

And growing user demands are heightening the urgency of the need for fresh governance on fire equipment and fire-safety solutions.

Siemens Building Technologies UK managing director Steven Foxley believes the absence of enforced fire safety third-party accreditation could put lives at risk and calls for a step change in standards.

 

Image of the largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded, September 2006, over the Southern pole. NASA

7/4/16

By Brad Plumer
Vox

Sometimes the world really can get together and avert a major ecological catastrophe before it's too late. Case in point: A new study in Science finds evidence that the Earth's protective ozone layer is finally healing - all thanks to global efforts in the 1980s to phase out CFCs and other destructive chemicals.

This is one of the great environmental success stories of all time. Back in the 1970s, scientists first realized that we were rapidly depleting Earth's stratospheric ozone layer, which protects us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.

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7/15/16

By Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter
The Maritime Executive

Fire protection remains an "ungoverned space" within the maritime industry. There are are too few qualified engineers who may be considered subject matter experts in marine fire engineering, and too often, marine fire protection is seen as a cost than an investment and something vital to the overall business activity of the customer. A "safety first" culture often remains both un-pursued and unrewarded.

In terms of ships extinguishing systems there exist two broad categories: sprinkler systems and gas systems. The former can suffer leakage, but the latter can cause catastrophic effect given its physical pressures. Overall, the value of the marine assets that fire systems protect is increasing rapidly but the competitive nature of the free market in the fire and marine industry places great pressure on it to deliver systems which often only minimally comply with the regulations and deliver the asset protection at the most economical cost.

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Emma Maersk, World's Largest Container Ship, On Fire

 

These are the stories in our last issue that got the most clicks. If you haven't already, check them out!

• Halon System Saves 72 Ft Yacht 
• June 2016 Video of the Month: FM200 Systems Successful Data Center Extinguishment 
• Boeing 777 Catches Fire in Emergency Landing (Video) 
• Chubb Insurance Sues Simplex Grinnell over Trump Tower Fire 
• Advance Fire Protection (LA) Sued