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On 15 January 2015, Eveline Lemke, Minister for Economics, Climate Protection, Energy and Spatial Planning presented Munsch Chemie-Pumpen GmbH with the Innovation Award 2014 of Rhineland Palatinate.

On the occasion of the Neftegaz 2014 in Moscow, an independent survey by the Russian Ministry of Energy selected Hermetic-Pumpen as the Russian oil and gas industry’s best centrifugal pump manufacturer for 2014. This is a confirmation of winning this award already in 2013.

Crest Pumping Services, Part of Crest Pumps Group have been selected as one of the finalists for the Pump Industry Awards 2015 in the category of ‘Distributor of the Year’.

Xylem has been recognised with a leading Swedish business magazine’s ‘Swedish Innovation Prize’ for its Flygt SmartRun intelligent pump controller. Working in tandem with Xylem’s Flygt Experior wastewater pumping solution, SmartRun can reduce a wastewater pump station’s energy usage by up to 50 percent.

Armstrong Fluid Technology has been presented with a prestigious Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award in recognition of world-class performance in business strategy, operations and customer service. At a gala ceremony in Toronto on December 2nd, 2014, members of the senior leadership team were presented with the Customer Value Award in recognition of the outstanding return on investment provided by Armstrong solutions.

Kirloskar Brothers Limited has been recognized yet again at an international forum. The latest recognition comes for its all-women plant in Coimbatore. KBL’s Coimbatore plant has received the Best Employer Brand Award towards Women Talent Management at the fifth Asia Employer Brand Awards 2014 held in Singapore.

Bologna s ACCADUEO 2014, the XII International Exhibition of Technologies for the Treatment and Distribution of Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment, has just drawn to a close and Caprari took part with satisfaction, having been rewarded by the great influx of public.

Worldwide wastewater treatment and green energy authority Global Water Engineering (GWE) has won a major international chemical engineering award for its process by which it transforms food processing sludge waste from an environmental problem into profitable green energy.

Xylem was presented with a Silver Medal Innovation Award from the German agriculture organization Deutsche Landwirtschafts Gesellschaft (DLG) at the Bioenergy Decentral Fair which took place at Hanover Fairground, November 11 -14.

Voith has won the “PR Bild Award 2014” (“PR Picture Award 2014”). On November 13, the photograph of a Voith Francis runner was declared the winner of the PR Bild Award.