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End of October of this year, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, received an order for pumps for a new seawater desalination plant in Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman for a total of more than DM 30 million.

A wide-ranging expansion and modernization project has been drawn up and developed for the Venice Marco Polo airport, providing for the creation of various infrastructures for the benefit of travellers and for the construction of new buildings dedicated to the various airport services.

Canal Boats, Inc. has delivered the first bio-diesel hybrid electric ferry, the “Clay Shaw” to Broward County Mass Transit. Mrs. Emilie Shaw, wife of U.S. Congressman Clay Shaw, Rep., Fort Lauderdale did the honors before a crowd of 150 people.

The smooth power of an ARO 3″ double diaphragm pump, from the compressed air and pneumatic equipment specialists, Thomas Wright Thorite Group, is assisting in the manufacture of high quality vitreous china sanitary ware.

Being one of the largest suppliers of engineering services in the North East, Balfour Kilpatrick was one of only a few firms capable of quoting for the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts development, opening 2002. To ensure the success of this prestigious project, the company decided to use Wilo Salmson glanded pumps.

SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ — ITT Industries, Inc. (NYSE: ITT) will play a critical role in the construction of the new wastewater treatment plant in Shaoxing, a city of one million people on China’s east coast, about 250 km south of Shanghai. ITT’s Flygt unit has received a record order for 195 submersible mixers, plus all of the control equipment for the units.

In October, a consortium led by the Frankenthal KSB Fluid Systems GmbH was awarded a contract worth DM 135 million for the turnkey construction of a water pumping station in Libya. The value of KSB’s own work amounts to some DM 50 million.

A Framework Contract has been awarded by Vivendi Water to Omron Electronics Ltd for the supply of variable speed drives, (also called inverters) which control the operational speed of electric motors and the pumps, fans and processing equipment which they run.

Despite a competitor based opposite the site for the new dual carriageway on the A11, it was the Great Yarmouth branch of pump and hire sales company Selwood that won the contract for pumps.

HARLEYSVILLE, Pa., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ — William L. Kacin,

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Met-Pro Corporation (NYSE: MPR), announced today that the Company’s Duall Division, in Owosso, Michigan, has received an order to supply two (2) F-Series multi-stage odor control systems to a solid waste

management facility in the midwestern United States for removal of odors from their waste processing operation.