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Since 2000, the Pump Industry Awards has been recognising the best performing companies and people for their achievements and positive contributions. In 2016, PIA will proudly lead the call again in championing those responsible for pioneering new frontiers, inspiring others and achieving growth in challenging markets.

Xylem congratulates Perry Alagappan of Houston, Texas, as the 2015 winner of the United States Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), the world’s most prestigious youth award for water-related science and technology projects.

The FSA Award of Merit was recently bestowed upon Charli Matthews, Founder and President of Empowering Pumps, LLC.

To its array of achievements for various innovative and indigenously developed products, Kirloskar Brothers Limited has received yet national-level recognition for its LLC Pumps series.

SPX has been recognised for its work as a pump manufacturer by the Pumps Industry Awards (PIA) 2015. Its Glasgow facility, which manufactures ClydeUnion Pumps, has been awarded ‘Manufacturer of the Year’ at this year’s prestigious Annual Pump Industry Awards.

Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), the global platform to share and co-create innovative water solutions, officially opened its call for nominations for the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2016.

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.