The development, operation and maintenance of hydropower plants require a great variety of expertise.

The Hydro Equipment Association (HEA) introduced its Global Technology Roadmap – a blueprint for Hydropower’s place in today’s and tomorrow’s energy mix and a call to action for national decision- and policy-makers around the world.

Practical experience has shown that there is still considerable potential for reducing the operating costs of existing systems in primary industry. Particularly on continuous-flow machines such as pumps and compressors that operate at partial load, changing to high-efficiency motors and variable-speed drives can reduce energy consumption by as much as 50 %.

ACHEMA 2024 will once again fully integrate the lecture and supporting programme with the exhibition. In 2022, ACHEMA integrated the congress and the so-called Innovation Stages into the exhibition for the first time. Due to the positive feedback, the concept will be continued this year. In total, more than 750 presentations await visitors in the lecture halls and on the stages in the exhibition.

Cornish Metals Inc. is using eight Bredel 40 hose pumps and three Qdos chemical metering and dosing pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS) in its newly opened water treatment plant (WTP) at South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall, England.

Over recent months, the membership of the Association of Electrical & Mechanical Trades (AEMT) has enjoyed further expansion with several key businesses coming into the fold.

Xylem has launched the “Series e-SVI” immersible multistage pump line in North America to meet growing demand from the industrial, Original Equipment Manufacturer, and commercial building markets. The e-SVI is an energy-saving, vertical multistage pump with an immersible hydraulic end that provides an ideal solution for top-mount applications.

For many years, Europump, the Association of European Pump Manufacturers has been at the forefront of the health & safety, environmental and sustainability agenda, advising and lobbying Governments as they look to update and improve the legislative landscape for industry.

Pumps play an important role in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and selecting the most effective pump is the key to achieving low operating costs, cut CO2 emissions, and limit the global temperature increase. For nearly three decades, the UN has brought together almost every country on earth for global climate summits.