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Quality and cost can be the pride or demise of any brewery. Companies need to maintain the perfect balance without risking either aspect. A major North American brewer recently sought an improved process for transferring dry grain dust. In the process of manufacturing, streams of raw materials are …

Meeting the very specific and technically challenging requirements for new tank access covers at the Tonbridge Wastewater Treatment site (WwTw), is another example of the engineering skills of Bristol based specialist GRP cover designers AMi Designs.

At the end of 2005, the KSB Group was awarded a contract from the Russian plant engineering company, Power Machines, for the supply of pumps to be employed in a steam generating station in Barh in the Indian state of Bihar, worth several million euros.

BOC Edwards has won a contract to supply six of its XDS35i dry vacuum pumps to CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire. The pumps will be used at the Assembly Integration and Verification Facility to create optimum vacuum conditions in the facility’s thermal vacuum chambers.

Ensival-Moret (Shanghai) have recently been awarded a contract for one axial flow pump. The value of this contract is close to half a million EUR. This pump is used…

The KSB Group is in the process of supplying SEZ hydraulic systems with drives for six huge concrete volute casing pumps for the “St. Germans Pumping Station” replacement project.

A local contractor in Mexico, Géminis Group, chose ABS for the supply of a complete submersible equipment package for three municipal WWTPs in the region of Guanajuato.

In April 2006, the KSB Group was awarded a contract for the modernization of all pumping equipment at the Dhekelia seawater desalination plant in Cyprus. The plant produces 40,000 cubic metres of desalinated water per day using the reverse osmosis principle.

In June 2005, KSB Aktiengesellschaft Frankenthal (Germany) contracted for the supply of two big submersible borehole pumps worth around half a million euros. Each unit has a motor rating of 900 kW and requires a 6000 V supply voltage. The pump capacity of each pump unit is 1200 cubic metres per hour at a design head of 200 metres.

Achieving energy savings of at least 50% along with less downtime and cheaper maintenance were the important benefits achieved following a process water plant modernisation and pump replacement project, completed for Robert McBride Ltd, a leading manufacturer of personal care products.