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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.

Armstrong Fluid Technology has announced that the company has moved to a new expanded facility for European production and warehousing of circulator products.

Alfa Laval is opening a state-of-the-art Application & Innovation Centre in Kolding, Denmark.

The Tapflo Group continues to develop and establishes another subsidiary in Europe. This time the Swedish pump manufacturer is concentrating on Hungary, with its headquarters in the city of Szeged.

In May 2020, EBARA CORPORATION established Ebara Pumps Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (EPMX) that sales and provides service and support of standard pumps.