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Southern Water, which serves more than four million customers in the water-scarce south-east of England, is working towards a 15% leakage reduction by 2025, writes Tony Gwynne, leakage solutions director, Ovarro. The water company’s Water Resources Management Plan 2024 sets out long-term plans to more than halve leakage by 2050 through a combination of new technologies and enhanced monitoring, using tools such as acoustic sensors and digitalised management systems.

Parker Hannifin is introducing the enhanced version of proportional cartridge throttle valve series, TFP, along with its DFplus generation IV pilot valve. The new pilot valve further reduces the step response times by up to 30%, making the TFP the fastest valve in its class.

Armstrong Fluid Technology has launched a new service to help building operators restore and maintain top performance and efficiency in HVAC systems.

Celeros Flow Technology (Celeros FT) and Carbon Clean have entered a partnership agreement that aims to accelerate the deployment of carbon capture technology in hard-to-abate industries. The signing ceremony took place at ADIPEC 2024.

Leybold’s new DURADRY is a dry screw vacuum pump designed for medium-harsh industrial production processes where high temperatures, high oxygen contents and corrosive conditions prevail. Its features make it the perfect solution for applications like crystal pulling, plasma cleaning, heat treatment, coating and battery production.

WEG supplied medium voltage synchronous motors to CEDAE at the Lameirão Pumping Station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These motors will play a crucial role by pumping water to a significant part of the city, ensuring reliability and continuity for the state’s population.

The goals of protecting water resources and safeguarding health have inspired Caprari and Calpeda to undertake a major new initiative to tackle a major pressing issue, or rather per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are believed worldwide to be emerging ecosystem contaminants with significant environmental impacts.

Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for all living organisms, but its presence in excessive quantities in water bodies poses significant environmental challenges. Its runoff into lakes and rivers, as well as its discharge from municipal and industrial wastewater, can lead to serious environmental consequences. As countries tighten their legislation on water quality, wastewater treatment plants may need to install additional filtration equipment to comply with current as well as future standards.

SIMFLO, a US providers of industrial, municipal, and commercial-use pumps, has completed construction and officially opened the doors to its new, state-of-the-art, 40,500-square-foot facility in Southaven, Mississippi.

Jukka Tiitinen, Area President, North America, has decided to retire after a long and successful career at Valmet. Jukka Tiitinen will step down from his role on 31 December 2024 and handover to an interim Head of North America in January 2025.