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Xylem has won a significant contract to supply its Flygt brand submersible pumps and monitoring and control technology, as part of a project to upgrade Europe’s largest, and the world’s second largest, wastewater treatment plant located near Paris, France.

One of the largest UK manufacturers of fresh dairy products for the food industry was using air diaphragm pumps to dose peracetic acid into the final rinse water of both raw and finished CIP (Clean-in-place) routines.

NOV Mono has provided ten progressing cavity pumps which are installed at the heart of a new wastewater treatment works in Sussex. The Southern Water works in Peacehaven features a number of different Mono pumps, including EZstrip cake pumps, LF injection pumps and Widethroat pumps.

Water and environmental protection specifications, efficiency and economic questions have resulted in sewage plant processes becoming very complex. Media of different viscosities from untreated waste water up to thickened sludge must be handled. In order to ensure smooth conveyance at all stages, different types of pumps from the company Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme GmbH were combined in a Swabian sewage plant.

A global exporter of processed potato products, Remo-Frit, has demonstrated the environmental and economic benefits of converting waste products into green energy, transforming a potential problem into a sustainable solution offering greater profitability.

RZR Bombas Positivas has been boosting its growth by leveraging its ability to solve complex fluid handling problems in a multitude of industrial processes. Through its manufacturing facility located in Sao Paulo’s metropolitan area, RZR supplies rotary gear pumps to the domestic market.

Chemineer agitators are playing a key role in six newly upgraded Activated Sludge Process (ASP) lanes at Severn Trent Water’s WWTW in Birmingham, UK.

Greiner Packaging’s production plant in Northern Ireland is helping a neighbouring college cut its £40,000 annual heating bill by donating waste heat from its compressors and its process cooling installation.

A single Moyno TR Muncher has been selected to do the work previously done by three grinder units which were struggling to deliver the required performance and maintenance levels at a large waste water treatment plant in Rhode Island, New England.

UPC is a multinational provider of TV, Internet and telephone services and has one of their main call-centres based in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. With over 1,500 employees and hundreds of computer screens giving off heat, the task of cooling the premises is far bigger than heating it.