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Armstrong Fluid Technology has announced a new series of webinars focused on energy savings to help building managers, engineers and other industry professionals get the best performance from their HVAC systems.

Within the coming thirty years, the population in Africa is predicted to double to around 2.5 billion people. The continent’s environmental problems thus will further increase. Adequate waste treatment and disposal are a top priority: according to a World Bank report released in September, waste generation in sub-Saharan Africa will triple by 2050.

Messe München expands its network of environmental technology shows in China: starting next year, it will be represented with a third IFAT event in the Middle Kingdom. As solution platform for the western region of China, IE expo Chengdu will be held for the first time from June 27 to 29, 2019 at the Western China International Expo City in the 15-million city of Chengdu.

In 2019 AchemAsia will take place in Shanghai for the first time. The „International Expo and Innovation Forum for Sustainable Chemical Production“ from 21 to 23 May 2019 focuses on topics that are highly relevant for China’s process industry. Papers for the AchemAsia conference can be submitted until 10 January 2019.

Organizers have already started work on the 42nd edition of MCE – Mostra Convegno Expocomfort, set to take place from 17 to 20 March 2020 at Fiera Milano.

The British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) has been running dedicated pump training courses since the mid 1990’s and has helped equip hundreds of individuals with the knowledge and skills required to understand the design, installation and operation of this essential piece of equipment.

On 22 October 2018 more than 120 participants from the international water com-munity came together in the “Humboldt-Box” located in the heart of Berlin for this year’s BLUE PLANET Berlin Water Dialogues supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises.

Ebara held pumps seminars on October 8 at pump factory of Ebara Vietnam Pump Company Limited, a group company of EBARA, in Hai Duong Province Vietnam. A total of 30 teachers and students attended from Thai Nguyen University of Technology.

Relieving landfills, winning drinking water, making greater use of waste water—from October 15 to 17, at IFAT India 2018 in Mumbai, the environmental technology industry devoted itself to the challenges of the Indian subcontinent. The focus was on water, sewage, solid waste and recycling. The record attendance of 7,441 visitors (2017: 6,765) proves: the demand for environmental solutions in India is increasing.

For the valve manufacturer GEMÜ, the 26th September was marked by a very special slogan: “Not an all-inclusive package tour, but an expedition.” Under this maxim and by means of exciting presentations and an active supporting programme, the participants of the first CONEXO day discovered ways to incorporate digitalisation into the processing industry and move forward into “Industry 4.0”.