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Parker Hannifin Corporation announced that it will work with Oracle Team USA, the defending champion of the America s Cup, to design and implement hydraulic control systems on its America s Cup racing yachts.

To increase metalcutting capacity in response to an upturn in orders for automotive pumps, Concentric has installed three Fanuc Robodrill machining centres at its manufacturing facility in Erdington, Birmingham. The company’s oil, water and fuel pumps are used mainly in diesel engines that power light to medium duty trucks and off-road plant.

There are certain liquids, which, due to their composition, their characteristics, or how they react to process conditions (and in some situations, a combination of all three) will present challenges to achieving efficient, trouble-free pumping. Emulsions are an example of a ‘difficult’ liquid and users should be aware of the potential problems that can occur if the ‘wrong’ type of pump is specified.

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum gained an order for the manufacturing of a batch of cryogenic vacuum pumps of the series COOLVAC 60.000 for the evacuation of space simulation chambers. These pumps with a flange diameter of 1.3 m and a pumping rate of 60,000 litres per second for nitrogen are being manufactured presently at the Dresden site of Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum.

A single progressing cavity pump form NOV Mono has been used to replace a number of centrifugal pumps and improve pumping performance on an agricultural effluent duty in New Zealand. The Mono pump is now transferring animal effluent over considerable distances at Castle Glen Farms in Foxton, on New Zealand’s North Island.

The wide variety of applications that can be accommodated by Moyno progressing cavity (PC) pumps has been highlighted by an offshore application. Ten of Moyno’s 2000 Series pumps have been ordered for a new fleet of offshore supply vessels that will be used to service drilling rigs worldwide.

Every commercial and industrial company in Europe is subject to a multitude of regulations for the protection of staff, users and the environment. This not only affects the manufacturing machines themselves, but also the pump systems being used.

Andritz Hydro Hammerfest, part of international technology Group Andritz, has received an order from MeyGen Ltd. to supply three 1.5-megawatt tidal current turbines to the planned tidal array in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth, Scotland.

Three TR Munchers and three Compact C range pumps from NOV Mono have been chosen for a demanding sewage handling operation in the Caspian Sea. They will be used to macerate and pump black water on a deep-water semi-submersible drilling rig which is located there.

Concentric, a company focusing on the development and manufacture of oil, water and fuel pumps used in diesel engines for heavy vehicles and off-road plant, has invested in three Mafac Elba aqueous cleaning machines from Turbex.