AirPol Inc., a Parsippany, N.J.-based subsidiary of MPM Technologies Inc., of Spokane, has entered into a joint marketing agreement with USX Engineers & Consultants Inc., a subsidiary of big Pittsburgh-based USX Corp.


Separately, MPM Technologies has named Joseph G. Kilraine as president and chief operating officer. Kilraine, who most recently served as president of ROE Partners, a Parsippany-based company that acquires, owns, and operates corporations in diverse industries, succeeds former company President Charles Romberg, who retired in July 1999.


As part of AirPols agreement, the USX subsidiary, which provides consulting, engineering, laboratory, and management services to the minerals, mining, and metals industries worldwide, will market and sell AirPols various air-pollution control equipment and systems to the iron and steel industry, AirPol says. Some of the systems that USX Engineers will be marketing for AirPol include particulate control systems, liquid-mist control systems, acid-gas absorption systems, and other systems for pretreating gas and treating effluent, the company says.


About 85 percent of USX Engineers business is international. The subsidiary also is a licensing agent for USX Corp.s proprietary processes, AirPol says. USX Corp., formerly U.S. Steel, is a producer of oil and natural gas and the nations largest producer of steel products.


The alliance with (USX Engineers & Consultants) opens an enormous international market to AirPol for our wet scrubbers and wet electrostatic precipitator product line, AirPol President Frank E. Hsu says.


MPM Technologies acquired AirPol, a maker of air scrubbers, precipitators, and absorbers, in July 1998. AirPol has designed and built more than 1,400 air-pollution control systems for a broad range of applications, the company says.


MPM also owns Mount Arlington, Ill.-based Huntington Environmental Systems, and Nupower Inc., through which MPM Technologies sells its Skygas waste-to-energy technology.