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Flow control and treatment revenues in India will grow by more than 8 percent this year and reach $12 billion in 2017. The Indian economy is now the world s 9th largest. GDP growth is forecast to exceed 7 percent.

Atlas Copco, a provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has acquired the operating assets of Roxel Rental, a supplier of temporary air solutions for the Norwegian offshore industry.

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau has taken over Bos Benelux B.V. After 30 years as an active partner, Vogelsang has now strengthened its bond with the company, in order to control sales in the Benelux countries directly in the future.

Wilo USA, a provider of pumps and pump solutions for building services, water management, and groundwater, is pleased to announce David Goddard as the new Regional Sales Manager of Water Management for the Midwest region of the United States.

Specialist in positive displacement pumps, fluid handling systems and related services, AxFlow, extends its product portfolio and Swedish market coverage with the acquisition of Esspump AB.

Sulzer is pleased to announce changes to its Executive Committee.

Drives specialist Danfoss Drives has won the coveted Environmental and Energy Efficiency Award at the inaugural Motion Control Industry Awards held at the National Conference Centre (formally known as the National Motorcycle Museum) on 12 April 2016. The organisers recognized Danfoss Drives for generating surplus power from wastewater treatment.

The sales of reagent for stationary NOx control in 2017 will exceed $3 billion. This does not include sales of AdBlue for mobile NOx control which are growing rapidly. The SCR catalyst market will also be down to just under $1.6 billion from a peak two years ago of $1.8 billion.

Sales of ultrapure water (UPW) filtration and treatment equipment will exceed $3.8 billion in 2017. Electronics companies will be the largest purchasers. Semiconductor, photovoltaics, flat panel and memory manufacturers will be purchasing UPW hardware and consumables for the purpose of washing etching solutions and other fluids from their products in process.

ABB has appointed Sami Atiya to its Executive Committee as President of the Discrete Automation and Motion (DM) division, effective June 13, 2016. He succeeds Pekka Tiitinen, who will return to his home country as Managing Director of ABB in Finland.