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Wine is one of the most sensitive drinks in the world. Even small disturbances during production can significantly reduce the quality. But as a lot of the steps in the process – particularly transportation of the grape juice – are unavoidable, the largest winery in Northern Italy uses a unique pump from Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme GmbH to convey its wine sensitively.

International technology Group Andritz will supply 121 pumps and 18 booster stations for a new drinking water treatment plant in Samawa, Iraq, on behalf of PWT Wasser- und Abwassertechnik, Germany.

Sulzer received an order from Strathcona Storage Limited Partnership. The pumps Sulzer supplies are for the challenging application of injecting hydrocarbons at a very high pressure into salt caverns for storage. The pumps will be shipped in the first quarter of 2016.

A state-of-the-art metal recovery project requires all equipment and systems to work in perfect unison and perform to optimal efficiency.

Everything surrounding the world famous arenas has to work perfectly and precisely. From courts to irrigation there is no room for errors at the place where tennis and traditions meet on the grass.

A major paper mill in Germany has replaced its existing diaphragm pumps with Qdos models from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group and seen immediate process improvements including: reliability, increased up-time and ease of maintenance when pumping anti-foam agents used in starching operations.

When a major energy pipeline company looked to streamline their pumping system for their waste oil tanks for the temporary storage, they called on Netzsch to design and build customized vertical cavity sump pumps for lower maintenance and opera-tional efficiencies.

The Volkswagen Group wants to cut energy consumption. The target is 25 per cent less by 2018. To help achieve this, a pump control system from Grundfos has been installed at the production plant in Braunschweig.

The Swedish ozone generator supplier Primozone has won the public tender to supply the ozone installation for the expansion of the Langevatn drinking water treatment plant outside Stavanger, Norway.

Colfax Fluid Handling has delivered end of 2014 three Allweiler propeller pumps to a German chemical company. The pumps will move sodium sulfate.