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The development, operation and maintenance of hydropower plants require a great variety of expertise.

Next year’s IFAT—the World s Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management—will come up with a novelty: under the banner of “experience.science.future”, from May 14 to 18, 2018 the Munich exhibition center will be a platform for science & research, education & training, jobs & career and start-ups—in short, for thought leaders and junior staff in the environmental sector.

Bitzer has been promoting the development of compressors for refrigerants with low global warming potential (GWP). The specialist in refrigeration compressors has now developed a new training concept: on 28 November, at the Rottenburg training centre, company experts explained for the first time how to convert systems for use with low-GWP refrigerants such as R448A and R449A.

What will the process industry look like in 2025? More flexible, more integrated, more biological, experts say. Three focal topics bring “Flexible Production”, “Chemical and pharma logistics” an “Biotech for Chemistry” to the forefront at Achema 2018.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) announces a strategic educational partnership with Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) to help companies in the Middle East assess pumping systems and identify improvement opportunities related to both industrial and commercial pumping systems.

IFAT, the World´s Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management, is launching what is now its second cooperation in Brazil. From now on, it will be the strategic partner of Waste Expo Brasil, the leading trade fair for waste management in the country.

The biennial Chem Show was held at the Javits Center in New York City last week, and will return November 19-21, 2019.

The provision of affordable drinking water in top quality is one of the most important tasks of the water sector. To be able to do that, the industry needs continuous innovations in order to maintain the high standards for the future.

Despite several setbacks, solar energy is ready for a happy end. Pumps for planned large-scale projects also have a leading role to play.

With the amended Commercial Waste Ordinance (Gewerbeabfallverordnung) and the law on packaging (Verpackungsgesetz), German industry is facing new challenges. Companies in the waste-disposal and recycling sector are now asking what impetus can be expected in the market and in technology as a result of this new framework.