EG&G Defense Materials Inc., the contractor based in Wellesley, Mass., that operates the Army's chemical arms incinerator in Tooele County, soon will export its technology to Russia. The company won a contract to provide technical services for the first chemical weapons disposal facility to be built on Russian soil with American assistance. It will be the partner of Parsons Delaware Inc., prime contractor on the project, according to EG&G. The project is near the town of Shchuch'ye, in the Kurgan region of Siberia, 1,000 miles east of Moscow. The Shchuch'ye chemical weapons stockpile consists of about 2 million munitions containing 5,400 metric tons of chemical agents. The company's safe, efficient operation of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility "has shown the world our expertise in disposing of obsolete chemical weapons," said Michael J. Rowe, EG&G general manager. Rowe named Jim Hurley, a Sandy resident and the former test and outage manager for the plant, as manager of the EG&G Russia Project. "This is an important business win for EG&G. I'm also proud that we can play an important role in such an historic construction project," Hurley said.
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