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First helium plasma was generated at the nuclear fusion reactor Wendelstein 7-X of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) has been successful. On 10 December 2015, after more than ten years of construction and preparation, the researchers of the IPP succeeded in taking the world s largest fusion plant of the Stellarator type into pilot operation.

At the end of September 2015, the KSB Group received a multi-million euro order to supply a total of 200 pumps for three new power stations to be built in Egypt.

Auma was one of the approved manufacturers contracted to support the Water System Improvement Program (WSIP) led by the City and County of San Francisco Public Utility Commission.

Delingha 50MW is the first commercially operating solar thermal power tower in China, and Zhejiang SUPCON Solar Energy Technology has developed modular solar thermal power plant technology for the project.

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH produces sliced cheese and Mozzarella at its production facility in Georgsmarienhütte, Germany. The various types of sliced cheese and Mozzarella blocks are vacuum packed after processing in several packaging lines. The vacuum supply for the packaging machines is provided by a Busch centralised vacuum system, which supplies both the packaging lines and the thermoforming machines.

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 renewable energy markets, has delivered a bespoke 2.8m vertical hydrocarbon condensate pump to Sonatrach in Algeria as a direct plug-and-play replacement for an existing unreliable pump.

Weda Damman & Westerkamp has developed a fully automatic feeding system for liquid feed for suckling pigs – the Nutrix+. A feeding device supplying various types of liquid feed automatic and targeted.

A major waterworks in South Africa is benefitting from the installation of Bredel Apex15 hose pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group. The Apex pumps have been preferred over progressive cavity (PC) pumps in an application that sees metering of bentonite into the source water to help flocculation.

Andritz has received an order from Hohhot Water Supply to equip two pumping stations in the city of Hohhot in North China with six and five double-flow split-case pumps, respectively. Start-up is scheduled for late 2015.

Polpharma, the largest manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in Poland has enhanced productivity at its manufacturing plant in Starogard Gdański thanks to peristaltic pump technology from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG).