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At the end of its’ life, a car yields on average, 140 kilos of shredder waste: 26 kg of metals, 69 kg of plastics, 11 kg of minerals and 24 kg of fibres. In Tiel, Netherlands, a Post Shredder Treatment plant (PST) was built in 2011, for the recycling of cars.

Sri Lanka s largest energy provider, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), has selected Voith as supplier for the modernisation of the Polpitiya hydropower plant.

Enterprises of the chemical industry have versatile demands with regard to the technology of pumps. Specially in the sector of the Polymer chemistry the choice of adequate sealings is most important in order to guarantee failure-free conveyance of the products.

Thanks to a new state-of-the-art desalination plant outside of Heraklion, locals and tourists can drink water directly from the taps.

Cat Pumps supplied the valve to the Wolverhampton-based company Ovivo UK Ltd. Ovivo called on the resources of Cat Pumps when they were awarded the contract by a leading international oil producer to supply the Fresh Water Maker Package for two projects located in the West of Shetland area of the UK Continental Shelf. The packages use the reverse osmosis process to produce fresh water from seawater.

Voith Hydro has been awarded to overhaul three hydro power plants in Italy till the mid of 2016. The value of the three awards sums up to a total of around 16 million Euros. The modernization projects will safeguard 13 megawatts of renewable capacity to the Italian grid for many decades in the future.

Aluminium powder coating specialist, France Alu Color, has reduced its costs for chemicals and further improved the reliability and safety of its surface treatment processes thanks to the adoption of Qdos dosing/metering pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group.

Balaruc les Bains is located approximately 28 km south-west of Montpelier at the Étang de Thau, a lagoon lake in southern France. The saltwater baths of Balaruc, with temperatures of 34°C to 40°C and a high calcium and magnesium content, have been renowned since ancient times.

Badger Meter control valves, available in the UK through Pump Engineering, are continuing to make an important contribution in applications such as oil extraction in ultra-deep oil wells thanks to their ability to overcome the difficult challenges associated with these applications. For example, withstanding extreme pressures, wide flow ranges and ultra-low temperatures.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has installed Atlas Copco’s Airnet piping system as part of a £4million upgrade of its test facility in Hemel Hempstead. The upgrade involved replacing the old galvanised steel piping with Atlas Copco’s modular aluminium Airnet system, which was fitted quickly to ensure the efficient and reliable delivery of compressed air to users within the facility.