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CNS Ship / Boat Repairing LLC in Dubai manages a fleet of 20 ships. Since 2018 the Ship Management company has decided to install CompactClean BWMS on board their ships, and so far three systems have been delivered and installed – and more are on the way.

Xylem is excited to launch two new water filtration towers in Cape Coast, Ghana, supporting the Dehia community and Oguaa Football for Hope Centre. Under the guidance of Planet Water Foundation, Xylem employee volunteers joined forces with Manchester City fans, Club legend and ambassador Joleon Lescott and young leaders from Play Soccer Ghana to build the towers on the 1st and 2nd of February 2023.

In the fall of 2022, thyssenkrupp Rasselstein’s coating line 13, the most technologically advanced line of its kind, was in operation. The line uses an innovative coating technology – Trivalent Chromium Coating Technology (TCCT) – which is based on chromium(III) in the production process instead of the chromium(VI) previously used.

Technology from water recycling specialist WCS Environmental Engineering (WCSEE) has been selected by a care home in Cornwall to provide onsite wastewater treatment in an environmentally sensitive location.

The technical components used in the packaging industry are subject to strict standards that include country and industry-specific hygiene requirements such as the EHEDG (European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group) guidelines. The tubular heat exchanger from Tetra Pak that features a specially developed seal from Freudenberg Sealing Technologies was the first and only device on the market to receive EHEDG approval.

Steam turbines are used in many applications on various scales to drive equipment such as pumps, compressors and generators. Periodic, preventive maintenance is crucial to ensuring reliable and efficient operation. For a power generation site in France, a major outage was made more cost-effective and easier to manage by using Sulzer to deliver a major overhaul on the turbine as well as the gearbox and pump connected to it.

Inflow of stormwater and infiltration of groundwater into sewers is a constant operational challenge, but a water utility in Norway is gaining better understanding of its network with an innovative digital approach, says Marco Westergren, chief analytics officer at InfoTiles.

The trial operation of the first horizontal, six-nozzle Pelton turbine at the Gerlos 1 power plant has been running successfully for over two months now, and is setting new benchmarks.

Global demand for raw materials is opening the door to a new market for Thordon Bearings, with one of the world’s largest mining companies, Grupo México, using the Canadian company’s grease-free and self-lubricating bearings in a myriad of pump and machinery applications.

Pumps play an important role in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and selecting the most effective pump is the key to achieving low operating costs, cut CO2 emissions, and limit the global temperature increase. For nearly three decades, the UN has brought together almost every country on earth for global climate summits.