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AchemAmerica 2005, International Exhibition on Process Technologies, will take place for the second time in the World Trade Center in Mexico City from 12 to 15 April 2005. It is the biggest international event for the supplier branches in chemistry and process engineering in Mexico and Latin America.

The new PMHT Range of horizontal pumps for high pressures enable a pressure of 100 bar to be reached.

The Board of Directors of Parker Hannifin Corporation elected Tom Williams to the position of vice president and president of the Instrumentation Group, effective immediately.

The new Spaix LayoutCustomizer opens a new dimension of personalizing sophisticated technical standard software. VSX –VOGEL SOFTWARE introduces its latest add-on program to the Spaix product family. The new software was developed to individually design the Spaix Classic V2 PumpSelector to suit the user’s marketing and design guidelines.

Crane Co. today announced the appointment of J. Robert Vipond, vice president – finance and chief financial officer.

Mr. Tommy G Klein has been appointed Senior Vice President, SKF Group Business Development. He will take up his position on March 14, 2005.

The ‘Stratford Box’ is an integral part of Phase 2 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL). It is approximately 1072m long, 55m wide & 13m deep at the centre (narrower but deeper at the ends) and has been built to house the Stratford International and Domestic Station.

As part of the nomination process agreed upon at the Annual General Meeting in 2004, the four largest shareholders of AB SKF with regard to the number of votes held, who…

Gardner Denver, Inc. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Thomas Industries Inc., a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of precision engineered pumps and compressors, for a purchase price…

National-Oilwell, Inc. and Varco International, Inc. jointly announced that, based upon a review of stockholder proxies returned to the companies to date, they expect to close the previously-announced merger of the two companies on the afternoon of March 11, 2005,…