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Malibu Health Products is a private manufacturer of sun care and related products based in St Albans, Hertfordshire and well known for leading brands such as the sun cream ‘Malibu Sun’. This technical application note provides details of the successful use of Inoxpa Sanitary Lobe pumps, supplied by pumping specialists Michael Smith Engineers, which have contributed towards improving manufacturing processes, reducing maintenance and downtime.

Xylem, has secured a contract to supply filtration technology to the new Beaver County water treatment plant in Baden, Pennsylvania.

Rotary screw blowers from Atlas Copco are providing a highly reliable source of vital process air for Lallemand GB, the UK’s largest commercial yeast producer, who is predicting to reduce its annual energy bills by 25% as a result of adopting the technology.

Rovatti Pompe has recently completed a significant supply of several pumps for the Tuas South Incineration Plant, the fourth and largest refuse incineration plant in Singapore.

Amarinth has secured a further order in excess of €500K for the Al Dabb’iya Facilities Development Phase III project from Fjords Processing in France for eight API 610 OH2 desalting system recycling pumps on an aggressive 24 week delivery schedule.

Grimsby’s Freshney pumping station is a key element of the town’s flood defences which were first enshrined in statute way back in the Grimsby Haven Act of 1796. When the pumping station was first built more than half a century ago it was equipped with three large Archimedes screw pumps. These were replaced some years later, but time and exposure to the elements have resulted in corrosion and wear, so in 2016 a major refurbishment programme was implemented in respect of the No.3 pump.

Thyssengas GmbH transports up to 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually using an underground transport system that is 4,200 kilometers long. The Ochtrup location is the turnstile for the distribution of natural gas in Northwestern Germany.

Thermoplastic bearing manufacturer Vesconite Bearings is tendering for the supply of the largest Vesconite pump bearings that it has ever supplied.

The majority of world’s largest refineries are situated in the Asia Pacific region. With 4 million barrels of oil produced per day by the top five refineries in the region, Asia’s growing importance as both an energy source and destination market is clear.

Amarinth, a leading company specialising in the design, application and manufacture of centrifugal pumps and associated equipment to the Oil & Gas, petrochemical, chemical, industrial and power markets, has delivered its first order to the Indian operation of Aquatec consisting of exotic alloy API 610 VS4 pumps on a tight 27 week delivery schedule for use in the Star refinery, Turkey.