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London’s Heathrow Airport is one of Europe’s busiest airports, supporting an average of 34,000 flights every month and millions of passengers each year. This massive volume of traffic requires the airport to have reliable and resilient critical infrastructure, including its wastewater management system.

Once one of the most famous mineral waters in the world, Mattoni 1873 has since firmly arrived in the 21st century. What’s more, as the biggest distributor of non-alcoholic beverages in Central Europe, it’s shaping the future regarding circularity – also with the help of high-tech from KHS.

Mixers in aeration and sludge tanks can account for up to 10% of a wastewater treatment plant’s overall energy use. By selecting energy-efficient mixers, operators can reduce energy consumption attributed to mixing by as much as 50%. Discover how three wastewater operators have achieved significant energy and cost savings with Xylem’s Flygt mixers.

DESMI are happy to announce the award of a second contract to supply into the Global Combat Ship (GCS) program. This contract includes the delivery of three shipsets of equipment consisting of Wholeship Pumps and Hot Fresh Water Modules into the Hunter Class Frigate Program in Australia.

Norway’s largest run-of-river hydropower plant, Vamma, will undergo a major modernization: Norwegian utility Hafslund has selected international technology group ANDRITZ to upgrade one of the plant’s turbine-generator units.

Opinion is divided when it comes to beer being clear or naturally cloudy. Those who prefer a clear beer have to choose a brewery that has the necessary filtration equipment. Like many other brewing companies, the long established brewery Müllerbräu Neuötting GmbH & Co. KG in Upper Bavaria uses diatomaceous earth as a filtration aid to clarify its beers.

Amarinth has secured its first pump order from Fedoz Nigeria for the Bonney River Terminal, Nigeria, marking a further expansion for Amarinth into the African market.

Manchester City Football Club (MCFC) has announced a reduction in water consumption by 50 million litres this past season, with the Club attributing a substantial share of this success down to the water technology solutions and technical advice provided by Xylem.

Whether as a steel alloy, catalyzer or even oxidized as battery storage – vanadium is used in a wide variety of industrial production processes. In order to leach particularly pure vanadium oxides, it is important to keep the process temperature stable. To achieve this, the leading provider U.S. Vanadium relies on sliding gate valves from Schubert & Salzer.

A mine in northern Chile has doubled its lithium extraction rate since installing Atlas Copco’s WEDA drainage pumps. Operators at the South American mine wanted to improve their lithium extraction process and turned to Atlas Copco’s distribution partner, TRILE, for expert advice and a reliable solution. In addition to optimising its process, the mine has also reduced its maintenance costs by 60%.