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Colfax Corporation announced Australian shipbuilding company ASC has ordered $1.2 million in pumping technology on behalf of the Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance for building three new air-warfare destroyers for the Royal Australian Navy.

A Verderflex Smart F30 tube pump has delivered many benefits to the Hungarian ice cream manufacturer Magic Ice. Including substantially increased productivity because the pump can accommodate several pump heads allowing the company’s production to be doubled.

The Waldeck I pumped storage plant, located on the Lake Edersee, was inaugurated officially at the end of April. Silke Lautenschlaeger, Environmental Secretary of Germany´s Federal State of Hesse, attended the ceremony.

The commercial hatching of chicks is a huge international industry and one company that is an international leader in the design and manufacture of incubation equipment, ventilation heat recovery and energy management systems for hatcheries is Chick Master.

Amiad Filtration Systems announced that the Butuan City Water District (BCWD) filtration system, which was installed in August 2009, has completed its testing and commissioning phase.

A Tsurumi pump has continuously served the Dutch rental market since Bruce Willis took the global box office by storm in ‘Die Hard’. And just like the ‘Die Hard’ movies, Tsurumi’s pump is still going strong.

One of the advantages of the British made Verderflex hose pump is its immunity to the detrimental effects of handling high solid content and abrasive substances.

“Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost”, which opened in June 2009, had a quite broad range of requirements to state-of-the-art pump technology. The experimental centre presents the visitors data, facts and phenomena about global climate processes and climate change and simulates them with large technical effort.

The Prime Tower is a visually unique landmark under construction in the heart of Zurich. The angular high-rise building stretches 126 metres across 36 floors, and is claimed to set a new benchmark for commercial properties in terms of architecture, transparency, appeal and technical perfection.

When property management company PCP took over an old building which had been a hostel for nurses at the Royal Free Hospital, it had an ambitious scheme in mind.