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Amarinth, a leading company specialising in the design, application and manufacture of centrifugal pumps and associated equipment to the Oil & Gas, petrochemical, chemical, industrial and power markets, has supplied the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing facility with fully interchangeable pumps to replace the 1990s Girdlestone units.

Hermetic Pumpen announces a major order to be ready for dispatch: More than 200 pumps with canned motor drive are packed and ready to be sent to the Middle East. The mega scale project includes all pump widths: from the smallest ‘CAM 1’ to typical Oil & Gas pumps of the ‘CNP’ range.

Baker Hughes, a GE company will supply turbomachinery equipment for the expansion of Cheniere’s LNG facility in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Specialist industrial motor manufacturer Solutions Engineering in Stoke on Trent is able to test the performance of its motors, having built a test station to its own specification based around a piezo electric torque transducer.

Bredel APEX 20 peristaltic pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG) have replaced piston pumps at a water treatment plant in Limoges, France. The move away from piston pumps – which are prone to abrasive wear and clogging – has resulted in significant process improvements. This includes reduced maintenance time, improved reliability and reduced the need to purchase supporting valves.

The Abi D’Oru resort is located on the north coast of Sardinia near Porto Rotondo, one of the most exclusive locations in Italy. It extends for 3 hectares and has: 177 rooms, 4 restaurants, 3 bars, an outdoor pool, gym, private beach, Spa, and 2 tennis courts. The hotel was built in 1963 and it was refurbished and extended in 2000.

Suez´s CEO, Jean-Louis Chaussade, and Vice President of Rosneft Andrey Shishkin strengthened their working relationship with the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement (SCA). The agreement will further technology development and implementation of water, wastewater and waste programs at Rosneft refinery and petrochemical sites.

Xylem announced that its ozone equipment has been selected to support the City of Grand Forks in developing a new regional water treatment plant. The facility will provide drinking water for the 57,000 people in North Dakota’s third largest city.

The Netherlands is located in the delta of three major European rivers. Water related issues such as flooding are always a risk. After a serious warning in 1995, when 250,000 people had to be evacuated due to a dangerously high water level, the national program ‘Room for the River’ came about.

European commercial and industrial companies must comply with strict regulations regarding manufacturing, pump systems, and more, in order to ensure the protection of users and the environment. Netzsch designs and manufactures all its systems to ensure that they meet all applicable regulations, and can meet individual requirements at client request. At the start of 2014 a major chemical producer was supplied with a T.Proc rotary lobe pump specially designed to convey corrosive fatty acid, and is both ATEX-compliant and complies with TA Luft air quality specifications.