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Astramatic S.A., Barcelona, Spain, is an engineering and consulting company that designs, builds, manufactures, and maintains industrial process water treatment plants adapted to all needs and situations.

Allweiler AG will deliver lubrication-oil systems for 22 steam turbines in Iran. The turbines are part of a new power plant complex that Siemens AG will construct in the city of Neka during the next three years.

The Indian pump manufacturer Kirloskar Brothers announced a new contract for supply of large vertical turbine pumps for an irrigation project in Suriname.

Tower Hamlets Council is installing multi-pump pressure-boosting sets in its high-rise blocks as part of a programme to improve water pressure in up to 40,000 properties in the borough.

A rolling programme of pump refurbishment with ABB drives is cutting electricity consumption by over a third at one of Anglian Water’s pumping stations.

ITT Flygt continues its relationship with Anglian Water, having been awarded a new three-year framework agreement, which commences January 2004.

Torishima (Hong Kong) Limited received an order of cooling water pump project with all assorted mechanical equipment for Uong Bi 300MW power station from M/S Lilama Corporation, the largest EPC contractor in Vietnam.

Düchting received the order to supply 5 FGD pumps, each with a capacity of 7,800 m³/h, for the power station Schkopau, Germany.

Raymond J. De Hont, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Met-Pro Corporation, announced today that the Company’s Fybroc Division, in Telford, Pennsylvania, has received an order to supply 180 corrosion resistant fiberglass centrifugal pumps to be installed at a new aquarium now under construction in Atlanta, Georgia.

With the biggest order on pumps ever placed in the company’s history, the WIRTH Group continues its walk of success. Inco Australia Management Pty. Ltd. of Brisbane, Australia placed an order with WIRTH for nine piston diaphragm pumps for the Goro Nickel Project in New Caledonia.