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Sulzer is launching a major investment project to digitalize and automate the assembly, test bed and painting processes in its Finnish factory in Kotka, located 130 km east of Helsinki. With the enhanced automation of production processes, Sulzer will improve productivity and shorten lead times for customer orders.

Armstrong Fluid Technology has announced plans to relocate its West Midlands factory, warehouse and offices to larger premises in nearby Droitwich. The move will enable the company to continue expansion of its UK production capabilities, to meet growing worldwide demand for its off-site manufactured plantrooms and energy centres.

KSB Australia has made another significant investment in a fully automated pump test bay at its Hope Valley Facility in Perth. Recently commissioned, this new capability extends the services of the 3,000 square meter workshop and now provides extensive resources for repairing rotating equipment and assembling pumping equipment.

On 4 February 2021, the Wilo Group invited to celebrate the opening of its new headquarters in Dortmund, the Wilopark. Over 1,500 high-ranking international guests from the world of business and politics as well as Wilo employees took part in the digital (due to coronavirus pandemic) event.

Bredel, part of the Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG), has invested over €3.4 million in a new high specification CNC turn-mill centre, an automated gantry loader and a vertical storage system to ensure shorter lead times for customers.

Flowrox, a Finland based company specializing in flow control, process automation, environmental and solid-liquid separation technologies, strengthens its operations in Central Europe by opening a new subsidiary, Flowrox GmbH in Ratingen, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Yaskawa is building a new corporate headquarters for Europe in the Hattersheim Industrial Park close to Frankfurt. The globally active technology supplier in the field of robotics, drives, motion and controls technology, and regenerative energy solutions is investing around 23 million euros in an office building and parking garage at the new site. The inauguration is planned for the end of 2022.

The Wilo Group will invest in a new high-tech factory in Changzhou. The hybrid signature Ceremony on 15th December marked the official start of this important milestone in Wilo history. More than 50 high-ranking guests from China and Germany came together on site and digitally with the Company’s Top Management to celebrate.

EBARA Corporation is strengthening its global supply chain to improve the competitiveness of its standard pump business in overseas markets. In Vietnam, EBARA has put into operation a Knock Down Center, a facility for assembling standard pump products.

Flender has opened its new state-of-the-art testing and workshop facility at the Tonkin Highway Industrial Estate in the Perth suburb of Bayswater.