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The sales of valves to meet the rigid requirements of the pharmaceutical, food and other life science industries in 2015 will exceed $3.4 billion worldwide. This is the last forecast in Industrial Valves World Market published by the McIlvaine Company.

The top ten companies in the air and water monitoring market had 2013 revenues of $4.7 billion representing 20 percent of the $23 billion market. This ranking analysis has just been posted to the McIlvaine report, Air & Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets.

In 2013, the Grundfos Group has had a growth in turnover of 2.9 per cent to 23.3 billion Danish kroner against 22.6 billion kroner in 2012.

The market for pumps, valves, filters and chemicals for use in desalination will exceed $5 billion in 2015. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in aggregating forecasts in a number of its reports.

International technology Group Andritz looks back on a disappointing 2013 business year. Although the Hydro and Metals (including Schuler) business areas saw very positive development, the results of the Pulp & Paper and Separation business areas were unsatisfactory.

Revenues again exceed €500 million, earnings affected by expenditure on brand development.

Municipalities will spend $1.2 billion in 2015 for new centrifuges to dewater sewage sludge. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in Sedimentation & Centrifugation World Markets.

For the first time, the upstream oil and gas industry will spend more than $10 billion for valves in a single year. In 2015, the expenditure will be $10.3 billion. This includes valves purchased for oil and gas extraction. It includes those used in unconventional extraction such as from subsea shale and oil sands.

Operators of municipal drinking water plants and wastewater treatment plants will spend $14 billion for new pumps in 2014. This is the conclusion reached in Pumps World Market published by the McIlvaine Company.

Georg Fischer generated sales of CHF 3 766 million in 2013 for a nominal increase of 1%. On a like-for-like basis, corrected for changes in the scope of consolidation and currency effects, growth amounted to 2%.