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Weir Services Australia has been awarded two major contracts for water treatment plants at BHP Billiton’s Ravensthorpe Nickel Project.

A biomass power plant and two district heating stations in Güssing, Austria depend on the quality and reliability of Allweiler ALLHEAT pumps.

Weir Pumps has been selected to supply pumps to a major Canadian offshore gas project. Under the contract valued around US$ 8 million, Weir will supply firewater pumps, seawater lift pumps, condensate export pumps and general service pumps for Exxon’s Sable Tier-2 Gas Project.

Hurricane Frances battered Florida for three days causing billions of dollars in damage. At least seven deaths were attributed to the storm and over 6 million people lost power. Municipalities were negatively impacted, including Martin County in southeast Florida and the Everglades.

1500-Pump monitoring system is BOC Edwards’ largest networked facility in the world. Managing an entire system of over 1500 vacuum pumps as well as multiple exhaust management systems in a manufacturing environment where downtime can rise…

Sulzer Pumps have successfully tested the first of the world’s largest seawater injection pumps at their new purpose built test facility in Leeds (UK). Each of the four 27,000Kw (36,000HP) HPcp 350-425 8 stage pumps deliver 1,650m3/h to a head of 4,664m and are direct driven by a Rolls Royce RB211 at 4,800 rpm.

The Eendracht Karton Paper Mill in Appingendam, Netherlands, has placed a complete order of agitators, pumps and diffusers from ABS, in order to set up their new KM11 machine. This project is one of many at the mill, which would make the movement into new areas of the packaging industry possible.

Flygt is proud to have supplied pumps and mixers to Athens for use during the Olympic Games and for years to come. These include the pumps that produce the whitewater flow at the kayaking course, to dewatering pumps on the underground and wastewater pumps and mixers at Europe’s largest treatment plant outside of the city of Athens.

In order to manage the biggest construction project undertaken at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities, the Harly Haddow Partnership relied on Wilo Salmson’s proven range of pump systems.

Euronext.liffe, the European international electronic derivatives exchange, has protected its two main IT servers by specifying Wilo Salmson’s Wilo-Stratos twin-headed pumps.