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Visitors enjoying the thrill of body surfing or simply splashing in the waves at Sun City’s iconic Roaring Lagoon, in South Africa, may not realise the precision engineering working beneath the surface to create the perfect wave. At the heart of this hydraulic spectacle are axial flow pumps, three of which are fitted with Vesconite Hilube line shaft bushings, driving the lagoon’s signature waves with reliability and efficiency.

ANDRITZ has received a significant order from Tata Power, one of India’s largest integrated power companies, to supply the pumped storage units for the upcoming 1,000 MW Bhivpuri pumped storage plant in the state of Maharashtra.

Industrial operations are facing increasing challenges from new regulatory requirements – especially when dealing with potentially explosive atmospheres. Air Liquide Austria GmbH, a leading provider of technical and medical gases based in Schwechat near Vienna, meets these requirements with a specially developed vacuum pump from Busch Vacuum Solutions.

Decarbonisation is one of the particularly relevant focus areas in MAN Truck & Bus’s sustainability strategy. This is why district heating is integrated into the Nuremberg plant’s heat supply in cooperation with the energy supplier N-ERGIE. The challenges of large fluctuations in the delivery quantities and the issue of noise reduction were successfully mastered with the help of Schubert & Salzer control valves.

Trial of an innovative phosphorus removal technology at a Sussex wastewater treatment plant (WwTP) has led to the purchase of two Flocell XFM20 filtration units by UK utility Southern Water. Wastewater treatment specialist WCS Environmental Engineering (WCSEE), now Marlowe Environmental Services (MES), initially hired out the equipment for use at Storrington WwTP in June 2025. Following a successful trial period, Southern Water took the decision to approve the units for permanent ongoing use.

In March, the pump and valve manufacturer KSB received a major order worth more than 150 million euros. Over the next few years, the company’s Energy division will produce and deliver eight main reactor coolant pumps for a nuclear power plant in Eastern Europe.

Amarinth has successfully completed the manufacture and delivery of a £1.5 million order for four bespoke API 675 chemical injection skid packages destined for Nigeria’s Soku and Gbaran LNG fields, located in the Niger Delta.

Securing reliable groundwater is a growing priority for communities and industries in South Korea, especially in regions where demand for domestic and agricultural supply continues to rise. In Yeosu, known for its mountainous terrain and hard rock layers, local waterwell specialist Yeosu Jonghap Jihasu faced increasing pressure to drill deeper wells efficiently.

In modern racing, weight, aerodynamics, and the materials used in vehicles determine victory or defeat. For the Formula Student racing team Mainfranken Racing e.V. at the Technical University of Würzburg-Schweinfurt, the production of carbon parts is also a central component of vehicle optimization.

In 2022, more than 30,000 people in the UK were undergoing kidney dialysis. For every one of those patients, water quality is not a background consideration but a frontline safety issue. Dialysis machines rely on large volumes of treated water, and any trace contaminants that remain can pass directly into the bloodstream. Among the most critical of these contaminants is chlorine.