From Inc. to LLC, the corporations of the Pollution Industry

GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc., an affiliate of the General Electric Company, has acquired Intellution, Inc., formerly a division of Emerson Process Management, an Emerson business. Intellution is a supplier of industrial automation software, with more than 185,000 installations worldwide. The business, which will become known as GE Fanuc Intellution, is based in Foxborough, Mass., and will operate as an integral part of the GE Fanuc Global Solutions Business. Contact GE Fanuc Information Center at (800) 648-2001, gefanuc@gefanuc.com or visit www.gefanuc.com

Terralink Software Systems Inc. has acquired Analine Technologies of Boston, a web-based hazardous waste software company. The acquisition creates a software and communications company that provides technology and communications solutions for the hazardous waste industry. Visit www.terralink.com.

Pro-Environmental, Inc. (PEI) has purchased all of the Smith Engineering Company, Smith Environmental Corporation intellectual properties. The purchase affords PEI full rights to all previously Smith-owned patents, trademarks, designs, drawings, and project and aftermarket files. PEI, in existence for over a year, specializes in VOC/HAPs abatement. Contact President Dave Chiles at (909) 989-3010.

USFilter has sold its waterworks distribution business to National Waterworks, Inc. for a cash purchase price of $620 million. The sale furthers USFilter’s announced strategy to divest non-core assets and focus on growth opportunities within USFilter’s expanding business base of water and wastewater equipment and services, and consumer and commercial businesses. The waterworks distribution business distributes third-party water infrastructure hardware items through more than 140 sales and service centers in the United States. Meanwhile, USFilter has obtained NSF Standard 61 certification for its GFH™ arsenic removal media, which removes arsenic from potable water supplies and helps existing plants meet stringent new arsenic standards. Visit www.usfilter.com or www.vivendienvironnement-finance.com.