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The winners of the prestigious 2011 AHR Expo Innovation Awards have been selected and will be honored at a special ceremony during the world’s largest HVACR exposition and conference in Las Vegas, January 31 – February 2, 2011.

How can large global companies integrate CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility, in their businesses and at the same time earn money and strengthen competitiveness?

Flowserve Corporation announced that it received a 2010 “America’s Safest Company” award from EHS Today magazine. The honor was presented to Flowserve at an awards ceremony in San Diego, California, on Monday, October 4, 2010.

Flowserve Corporation has been honored by Frost & Sullivan with its 2010 World Customer Value Enhancement of the Year Award in value-added services for valves and centrifugal pumps.

On 29 September 2010, the Grundfos Prize was given to Professor, Per Hankjær Nielsen from the Institute of Chemistry, Environment and Biotechnology at Aalborg University.

Almatec is extremely proud to announce that its E-Series Air-Operated Diaphragm Pump has been named a winner of a 2010 Innovation Award from Flow Control magazine.

The Stockholm Junior Water Prize, the most prestigious international student award for water-related research sponsored globally by ITT Corporation, was awarded to teenagers Alexandre Allard and Danny Luong of Canada at the World Water Week in Stockholm.

The European Federation of Corrosion is pleased to announce that Professor Michael Schütze, Germany, has been awarded the Cavallaro Medal of the University of Ferrara.

The pump expert WILO SE has just been honoured in the USA as “best innovator” with the Merlin Award. The Merlin Award has been awarded for ten years by the German American Chambers of Commerce and honours outstanding achievements in transatlantic trade relations.

Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew presented the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Water and World City Prizes to the 2010 laureates.