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Dependable high-pressure pumping is vital to modern longwall coal mining operations, but mines are increasingly looking beyond this requirement to apply integrated and automated solutions that respond dynamically to changing production conditions while providing real-time performance data.

During the separation of C-massecuite in a sugar mill, the manufacturer continuously monitors the flow of hot dilution water fed to the centrifuges. Despite tight installation conditions, cost-effective and reliable flow meters ensure the required measuring accuracy – boosting process stability and enabling efficient sugar recovery.

International technology group ANDRITZ, in partnership with the Slovak engineering firm VUJE, has been awarded by VODOHOSPODÁRSKA VÝSTAVBA a contract to carry out a comprehensive modernization of the Gabčíkovo hydroelectric power plant on the Danube.

Ecovado, a South African agro-processing company founded by entrepreneur Hulisani Mudau, has launched a new avocado oil processing plant in Limpopo in partnership with Alfa Laval Middle East, South and East Africa. Located in the Vhembe District, the plant will process locally grown avocados into oil, creating new opportunities for economic development and value creation in the surrounding community.

Anglian Water has signed a two-year extension to its condition-based monitoring (CBM) framework with industrial artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Samotics. Agreed in April, the framework covers more than 250 clean water assets currently monitored by Samotics’ SAM4 predictive maintenance system across Anglian Water’s operations.

SIMFLO recently announced its selection for a major municipal project in Central America to supply water infrastructure to multiple cities. The project involves supplying high-efficiency vertical turbine pump bowl assemblies to support well construction and scheduled municipal water system maintenance across El Salvador.

Sulphur dioxide is a highly toxic medium. Its handling is therefore subject to major accident prevention regulations and places the highest demands on the safety and reliability of the valves used. At Chemiewerk Bad Köstritz, sliding gate valves from Schubert & Salzer are used to control liquid and gaseous sulphur dioxide, achieving exceptional results in terms of service life and control accuracy.

New Brunswick Power signed a contract with ANDRITZ, moving to the next phase of planning for the modernization of the six turbine-generator units with a total capacity of 666 MW at the Mactaquac hydropower plant in New Brunswick, Canada.

Measuring wet, CO₂-rich biogas reliably in a DN300 pipe: for Fangel Bioenergy in Denmark, KROHNE’s OPTISONIC 7300 Biogas delivers pressure-loss-free ultrasonic flow measurement, with adapted titanium transducers, integrated pressure/temperature compensation, and methane content calculation, even under heavy condensate formation.

To meet Ireland’s growing gas utilisation levels, Armstrong Industrial: Gas (a division of Armstrong Fluid Technology) has supplied another two of its 3 MW boiler houses at a main gas interconnector site.