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In tough competition Grundfos’ German production company was elected as the award winner at EFQM’s annual award ceremony for the prestigious European Quality Prize.

Grundfos was the only company to win two of 12 awards during the CSR Foundation’s award ceremony at Alsion in Sønderborg, Denmark, on Thursday 29 September: An award for our CO2 reduction and one for our CSR communication.

A gap year student working at Edwards has taken maximum advantage of his time before university by scooping the top national prize in “The Year in Industry”, the leading working gap year programme for students working in science, technology, engineering and maths, run by education charity EDT.

ITT Corporation s Water and Wastewater group has won the 2011 Innovative Technology Award from the WEF.

Alison Bick of the United States was named the winner of the 2011 Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), the most prestigious international student competition for water-related research which is sponsored globally by ITT Corporation.

For the eighth consecutive year, Goulds Pumps, a business of ITT Corporation, has been chosen as the most preferred pump manufacturer by readers of Chemical Processing magazine.

Only creative companies with vision and a feeling for new ideas make it into the ranks of the top one hundred most innovative SMEs. Oerlikon Leybold was among them in 2011, and was presented with the Top 100 award by Lothar Spaeth in the Baltic resort of Warnemuende.

On the strength of rapid sales growth and excellent on-time/complete delivery rates, Pentair has been recognized as True Value Company’s 2010 Partner of the Year. True Value, one of the world’s largest hardware cooperatives with more than< 4,700 retail locations, awards this title to only one of its 1,800 vendors at its annual vendor award banquet, which was recently held in Chicago.

Wilo has developed a new, particularly energysaving, high-efficiency pressure boosting system, which is intended for use in potable water supply systems, as well as in fire water and industrial applications.

Popular Mechanics magazine has honored ITT Corporation’s AquaCharge portable rechargeable water pump with an Editor’s Choice Award at the 2011 National Hardware Show in Las Vegas, Nev.