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A Tsurumi pump will be attached to a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) used in a novel radioactive waste clearing project at the specialised reprocessing plant of AREVA at La Hague site (northern France).

Andritz Hydro has received an order from Verbund, the leading Austrian electrical energy supplier and one of the biggest hydropower generation companies in Europe, to modernize the Ybbs-Persenbeug run-of-river power plant (total capacity: 236 megawatts), which went into operation in 1959.

Xylem Inc. has designed and installed the first ICEAS Advanced Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) and ultraviolet (UV) municipal wastewater treatment solution in Vietnam to improve the water quality of the Sai Gon River.

For the second time, Voith has been awarded a contract for a hydropower project in Africa: the company will modernize Inga I hydropower station in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project on the River Congo, led by Voith in a consortium with the Spanish Elecnor SA, has a total order volume of approximately EUR 58 million and will be financed by the World Bank situated in Washington D. C., USA.

A Packaging company in Australia needed an effective means to transfer glue at 6 l/min from its IBC holding tanks to its glue rollers. A flow rate of 6 liters per minute was required.

Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply its Direct Electric Heating (Wärtsilä DEH) system for Chevron Overseas Congo Limited s Lianzi offshore development project, located off the Republic of Congo and Angolan coasts.

One of the products which the building materials manufacturer Knauf makes in Iphofen is a concrete primer. What is intended to ensure that plaster evenly bonds onto smooth walls in construction does however create problems when filling: the plaster primer contains dispersion and has a mineral solid content of around 60 percent, which has an effect like emery paper in the rotary lobe pump feeding the filling station.

Colfax Fluid Handling has been awarded a contract as the exclusive supplier of hydraulic pumps for a ship capable of lifting the topside structures from offshore platforms.

Xylem Inc. has announced that it has been awarded a $2.9 million contract from the Beijing Drainage Group (BDG) to install Xylem’s Flygt pumps in 19 pumping stations in downtown Beijing.

Morrison Pump Company of Hollywood, Florida, was awarded the order to supply four high capacity diesel-drive storm drainage pump systems for the City of Hallandale Beach s NE Quadrant Drainage Construction Project.