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ITT Industries, Inc. has been chosen to design, build and commission the aeration, pumping and mixing system at the Sulaibiya Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation plant in Kuwait.

The success of the Market Street project clearly hinges on the Wilo-TOP-ED twin-headed pump’s ability to fully utilise its variable speed range of 850rpm to 2,850rpm. However, Wilo’s versatile pump also offers full motor protection with trip relay, fault light and twin check flap contained within a cast iron pump body.

Weir Engineering Services, part of the multinational Weir Group, has been awarded a contract worth £10m, to provide maintenance services on all Shell U.K. Exploration and Production (Shell Expro) installations in the North Sea.

Weir Pumps were awarded a multi-million dollar contract to replace existing pumps at the Cantarell nitrogen generation complex located in Ciduad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico.

Sulzer Pumps has been awarded an order to supply four seawater injection pumps that will be the largest ever built. The pumps, to be supplied to the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) for installation on their Compression and Water Injection (C&WP) platform for the Azeri Development Project in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea, are each rated at approximately 26 MW absorbed power.

KSB won recently an order for four submersible borehole pumps and all related control systems from a mining company situated in Western Siberia. The worth of the contract is about € 2.2 million.

The German based KSB Aktiengesellschaft is to deliver 330 pumps with a value in excess of € eight million to China by the end of September 2003. The customer is a German-Chinese chemical company which is building a new industrial complex in Nanjing.

KSB Fluid Systems GmbH in Frankenthal (Germany) has booked a large order worth some 6 million euro from a Saudi water supply company for the design of the complete hydraulics and all control equipment for a long-distance water supply system to be built in Saudi Arabia. Among others, the order is for the supply of ninety-seven pumps.

Sulzer Pumps Finland Oy received an order of 250 pumps and agitators by the German based Zellstoff Stendal GmbH for a new greenfield pulp mill.

Carver Pump has been awarded a two multi-million dollar contracts by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Newport News Operations, for the final design and development of certain pumps relating to the CVNX project.

Flowserve Pump Division has announced it has been awarded an order by Thailandís Royal Irrigation Department for the Pasak River Dam project. The order for six vertical mixed flow pumps is valued at US $792,000 and will be delivered by December 2002.