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Flowserve Corporation announced it has received a multi-million dollar order from Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC).

As environmental regulations become more stringent, waste gas treatment systems are growing in importance. H+H Umwelt- und Industrietechnik GmbH of central Germany has been using Allweiler progressing cavity pumps as a core component of these systems since 2003.

Flowserve Corporation announced it has received final approval from Saudi Aramco on a master purchase agreement to supply pumps, valves and services for the Yanbu Export Refinery Project

Seeler Industries’ 3 Rivers Terminal in Joliet, IL, is one of the country’s larger storers, handlers and packagers of hydrogen peroxide. The company’s 123-acre terminal facility with 17 storage tanks and 15 blend tanks also has the capacity to accommodate other products such as caustics, amines, glycerin propylene, glycol and chemical de-icers.

Achieving over £37k per year of savings was one of the key benefits appreciated by Anglian Water following the installation of two mixing systems for handling secondary sludge at their Colchester sewage treatment works.

Leading vacuum technology company Edwards has won a major order to supply liquid ring vacuum pumps to a new bioethanol plant being built in the UK.

Water jet technology companies Jet Edge and Chukar Waterjet recently played a key role in helping BP stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

Leading vacuum equipment manufacturer Edwards has received six major orders for industrial coating systems in Taiwan and China in the last six months worth a total of over £3.5 million.

The exploration and production of oil in West Africa has been growing rapidly over the past decade, with much demand for the oil from Europe and the USA.

The end of May 2010 saw the start-up of a plant in Piteå, northern Sweden, which uses wood to produce engine fuel. The plant utilises a new process developed by a Swedish company to make diesel from so-called tall oil.