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BOC Edwards has won a contract to supply 14 vacuum turbo carts for the new Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire, the largest UK-funded scientific facility for over 30 years. The carts are a bespoke design based on …

Iwaki America announces that their MDM chemical process non-metallic magnetic drive pumps utilize the highest grade Samarium Cobalt magnet capsules to handle highly corrosive and toxic chemicals such as Sodium Hypochlorite, a corrosive chemical which plays an ever increasing role in many industries.

Progressing cavity pump specialists ROBBINS & MYERS UK have confirmed they are relocating their business to two new sites in the UK, a move which will consolidate their position as a leading force in progressing cavity pump technology.

Christ Water Technology subsidiary Aqua Engineering, the group’s competence centre for municipal water, wastewater and desalination plants, was awarded three large-scale orders for the complete rehabilitation of three drinking water plants from…

ITT Flygt Ireland has worked with mining and mineral exploration company, Galmoy Mines Limited, to solve a problem involving the pumping of water from the bottom of its Galmoy Zinc Mine at a rate of between 40 and 100 litres per second over a distance of 300 metres.

Mines in Fiji have been exploring gold since the early 1900’s and have a large requirement for submersible slurry pumps. With over 60 pumps used, maintenance can be costly if the correct pumps are not selected. This is the same for mine sites across the globe.

Campion Mechanical & Electrical Engineering (Campion), the largest ITT Lowara distributor in Ireland has secured the contract for the main pumps on the new “Spencer Dock” project in Dublin, Ireland.

Primeroyal dosing pumps are ideally suited to tough metering applications in chemical, general process and oil production industries where hazardous fluids such as methanol and glycol need to be transferred.

In mid-December 2005, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, Germany, will be shipping out two of the biggest cooling water pumps the company ever built. The pump’s installed depth below the installation level will be about 18m.

In July 2005, the Brazilian oil company Petrobras commissioned the Customer Service Support Brazil to retrofit two GSG boiler feed pumps installed in the RLAM refinery, one of ten Petrobras refineries in Brazil.