Local, state and federal officials joined Roth Industries to celebrate groundbreaking for the company’s $6 million expansion project at its facility in the City Center Industrial Park of Watertown, N.Y. Manfred Roth, chairman and CEO of the company, who traveled from Germany for the event, said, “Watertown is very important to us. After having started our production in Watertown just ...
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Boyd McGathey Joins Independent Technologies, Inc.
The president and CEO of Independent Technologies, Inc., Daryl Ingalsbe, appointed Boyd H. McGathey as the new VP of business development for WESROC Remote Monitoring Systems. McGathey most recently served as EVP and COO at Ferrellgas, the nation’s second largest retail propane marketer. While responsible for all retail propane operations, McGathey also headed Blue Rhino distribution and Ferrell North America, ...
Read More »A Bulk Plant Built for Speed
By Stephen Bennett A new bulk plant replaced an old bulk plant at Shattuck Oil in Pepperell, Mass., and project more than met expectations. The original plant, on the same site, was built in the 1920s, and “served us very well,” said Lou Berube, president of John G. MacLellan Oil in Tewksbury, Mass. Shattuck Oil is a unit ...
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More gallons will be sold when the weather turns colder than average, but maybe not as many as anticipated.
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With their different properties and characteristics, every fuel operates and performs differently.
Read More »A Matter of Degrees: How Tank Temp affects Bacteria Growth
By Stephen Bennett A sharp difference in the temperature of fuel in a large tank and fuel being added to that tank can spell w-a-t-e-r, reported Brian Savage of Savage Associates, a bulk plant system designer based in Martinsville, N.J. “If there is a major difference in the temperature between B100 and diesel fuel or heating oil we see a ...
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We speak with a key industry leader to get his take on 2012 and what lies ahead in 2013
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