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KSB, Frankenthal, Germany, presented a new selection program called KSBase Consult Building. It enables the simple hydraulic selection of pumps and valves for all important fluid circuits in building services systems and, at the same time, creates the corresponding tender texts. Consequently, it is the first program of its kind that covers both pumps and valves.

Maag Automatik (a Dover Corporation Member) is proud to announce that M&G Finanziaria (Italy) has chosen the German manufacturer to supply the equipment needed for a complete PET pelletizing plant. Not only will Automatik deliver a number of its production proven underwater Sphero pelletizing systems but also corresponding melt pumps, screen changers and the company s highly innovative direct crystallization CC-PET process.

Preeflow dosing systems are among the world smallest progressive cavity pumps on the market. The unique endless-piston principle is the basis for the linear regulation of the volumetric dosing through the rotation of the rotor.

Sales of industrial and municipal pumps will exceed $48 billion per year by 2019.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) has entered a Training Partner Agreement with ABB, a leader in power and automation technologies and Baldor Electric Company, the leading North American manufacturer of industrial electric motors, drives and mechanical power transmission products. 

Verder International is proud to announce the opening of its latest office, Verder India Pumps PVT. LTD in Pune.

Effective from 1st January2014, Marcel Vandennoort is the new Regional Director for DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). He succeeds Sylvie Gallou, who has joined DuPont’s global transition team for the proposed spin-off of DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts and DuPont’s Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Coatings business.

Electricity cost is one of the world’s major economy drivers; power generation companies always look for the optimization of overall efficiency of power plants to increase their capacity of generating electricity.

Flowserve Corporation (NYSE: FLS), a provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, announced it received multiple orders for key pumping systems for the Lichterfelde Cogeneration Power Plant.

Thomas Dittrich has been appointed as new Chief Financial Officer and is expected to start in August 2014.