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Amarinth has won a $500K order from KPO in Kazakhstan for six API 610 OH2 pumps. The Karachaganak field is the biggest gas condensate field in Kazakhstan and is owned and operated by Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (KPO).

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Vietnam Electricity (EVN), a leading economic group in the energy sector in Vietnam, to supply the complete electro-mechanical equipment and technical services for the Ialy hydropower plant extension project located in Sa Thay district, Kon Tum province, and Chu Pah district, Gia Lai province, in Vietnam.

A company from the salt industry required pumps with high demands on wear, corrosion, partly low NPSHA values and requirements for a food grade material design according to FDA. The finished product is used in the pharmaceutical sector.

Applications in the process industry make high demands on all components: They must meet hygienic design specifications, be resistant to process media, and fulfill various conformity requirements worldwide. And of course, this also applies to the seals.

Amarinth has delivered two separate orders of API 610 pumps totalling £1.2M for the West Qurna-2 expansion project in Iraq.

Upgrade of chemical dosing equipment at a wastewater treatment plant in Germany is delivering high performance on phosphorus removal, says Thomas Klobuczynski, industrial sales engineer, Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions.

At a nickel-cobalt mine in Papua New Guinea, until the end of 2017 cost-optimized diaphragm pumps from a regional manufacturer were used to pump 98 percent sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is required for the extraction of nickel from laterite. However, as the units previously used had a high failure rate and long downtimes, those responsible decided to replace them with new models.

It all began in 1977 with the original Star Wars film and the battle of the dark side of the Force against the light side. Since then, the Star Wars empire has developed rapidly. In addition to numerous films and series, there are also endless merchandise products that have a high demand around the world.

DESMI has installed, approximately, 700 OptiSave systems which altogether have generated accumulated CO2 reductions corresponding to 1-million-tonnes CO2. This equals what a 16,000-hectare Rain Forest consumes a year.

The developers of high-end properties built on a historic Hampshire estate have selected WCS Environmental Engineering (WCSEE) technology to treat wastewater flows to strict environmental standards.