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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.

EagleBurgmann, a world leader in the manufacture of mechanical seals, systems, packing and expansion joints, is one of four Fraunhofer institutes and seven other partners to receive the coveted Stifterverband Award.

The Pump Solutions Group was recently named the recipient of the 2010 North American Positive Displacement Pumps Customer Value Enhancement of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan.

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a new approach for managing a company. It is focused in creating innovation being environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.

Pfeiffer Vacuum takes 1st prize in the 2009 “INKA Competition” for the best product catalog in the Print category. The catalog’s “perfect organization” and “impressive appendix with selection aids, units of measure and formulas, symbols and index” received special praise from the jury.

Parker Hannifin Corporation announced that it has been recognized by NorTech (Northeast Ohio Technology Coalition) as a winner of its annual NorTech Innovation Award for the Run Wise(R) Hydraulic Hybrid Energy Recovery System. The awards program, presented in partnership with Crain s Cleveland Business, honors achievements of Northeast Ohio s most innovative organizations who are setting new world standards for technological advancement in the region.

The Hydraulic Institute has named Thomas L. Angle, Vice President, Product Engineering, Weir Specialty Pumps as its 2009 “Member of the Year.” The award was conferred on Mr. Angle at Hydraulic Institute’s 93rd Annual Meeting gala which recently took place in Marco Island, Florida.

The Singapore International Water Week announced that the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC) has been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2010, a prestigious award that recognises outstanding contributions towards solving global water problems by either applying technologies or implementing policies and programmes which benefit humanity.