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The Expo 2015 Universal Exhibition is the important event about feeding the planet and nutrition held in Milan. It s the global showcase in which countries display the best of their technologies for providing healthy, safe and sufficient food for everyone, while respecting the Planet and its equilibrium.

Kirloskar Ebara Pumps Ltd will be supplying indigenously-developed API Pumps to the Chinese EPC major Sepco Electric Power Construction Corporation, popularly known as Sepco.

Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory is an independent non-for-profit sea turtle rehabilitation facility and marine life education center based in Panacea, Florida. The organization has been studying endangered species, conducting research in mariculture, as well as playing an integral role in marine research programs across the United States, Canada and Europe since 1963. Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory also provides marine education to 20,000 school children each year.

Anaerobic digestion processes that radically improve the quality of waste water while delivering green energy extracted from biological waste streams are emerging as a profitable way for agricultural and food processing industries cope with the twin impact of drought and pollution challenges.

Sugar cane farmers, the Templeton family, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, have cut energy costs and gained additional water efficiency by installing a Tsurumi submersible dewatering pump. The new installation is a safer, flood proof solution for water harvesting that delivers 3,000 lpm at 850 Kpa.

Xylem has been awarded a contract to provide an existing wastewater treatment plant with advanced treatment technology, which will play a key role in an initiative focused on improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.

Sulzer has signed a worldwide framework agreement with Veolia Environnement for three years. This agreement makes Sulzer a preferred supplier across the entire Veolia operations for premium efficiency submersible and dry well pumps, mixers and dedicated services.

Mixing specialist System Mix has made an important contribution to the operational success and environmental sustainability of Northumbrian Water’s advanced anaerobic digestion operations at their Bran Sands, Middlesbrough and Howdon, Newcastle sites in the North East.

Morrison Pump Company of Hollywood, Florida, has been awarded the order to supply the new MBBR Recycle Pumps for the Hopewell Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility Project in Virginia.

Switching from progressive cavity (PC) pumps to a MasoSine pump from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group has overcome a long-standing issue for a leading paper mill based in South Africa – that of viscosity.