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The power industry will buy 20 percent of the water treatment chemicals purchased by industries around the world in 2015. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in its Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market.

The pump group Grundfos has a positive sales growth, but exchange rates and strain on the contribution ratio drags down the result. A revised group strategy will create additional growth and higher profit.

There are three major water treatment processes in power plants: Pure water for steam, Cooling water and Wastewater.

The world fabric filter systems market will be much larger in 2017 if catalytic filter technology is adopted. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in World Fabric Filter and Element Market.

The semiconductor industry has rebounded and will increase its purchases of flow control and treatment equipment for air, water and other liquids and gases to over $6.5 billion in 2015. These forecasts were calculated by McIlvaine Company through aggregation of revenues in a number of McIlvaine market reports.

In the first half of 2014, consolidated revenues of the BWT – Best Water Technology – Group declined by 0.8% year on year to €255.4 million. Adjusted for changes to the Group structure, consolidated revenues were up 5.4% on the previous year’s level.

Pfeiffer Vacuum generated sales of € 198.1 million during the first six months of 2014 during which an EBIT margin of 10.4 percent was achieved. This result is broadly in line with management’s expectations communicated at the AGM.

Countries in the Middle East will spend nearly $2.2 billion for pumps next year. This is the latest forecast in Pumps World Market, published by the McIlvaine Company.

Parker Hannifin Corporation reported results for the fiscal 2014 fourth quarter and full year ended June 30, 2014. Fiscal 2014 sales were a record at $13.2 billion, compared with $13.0 billion in fiscal 2013.

Pentair plc announced second quarter 2014 sales of $1.9 billion. Sales were down 3 percent compared to sales for the same period last year. Adjusted second quarter 2014 earnings per diluted share (“EPS”) were $1.04, up 13 percent from adjusted EPS of $0.92 in the second quarter of last year.