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Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group has extended its direct sales and technical support to customers in the Nordic region with the opening of offices in Finland and Norway. The new offices bring further strength to the Nordic sales territory and will work alongside existing operations in Denmark and Sweden.

The nearly 12,000 square foot building will centralize the company’s test rigs for hydrodynamic fluid film bearings and reciprocating compressor components and bring together the research and product development teams.

GEA Group AG decided on strategic guidelines and significant investments to further optimize its production network. In this context, production at the Bodenheim site near Mainz will be discontinued by the end of 2024.

EBARA Corporation operates a new distribution center in Vietnam while the company strengthens the global supply chain management of the EBARA Group.

Endress+Hauser is strengthening its logistics capabilities in Europe. Business partner Hellmann Worldwide Logistics will operate a modern, high-performance logistics center on behalf of the Group in Wörrstadt, Germany near Frankfurt Airport.

Leading global water technology company Xylem Water Solutions has invested in an OEM European Centre of Excellence (CoE), based from its UK facility in Axminster.

The manufacturer of engineered sealing applications is constantly pursuing ways to provide its customers with enhanced product quality and better service. To that end, the company has opened a dedicated engineering service center in North America as part of its global radial shaft seal operations.

Superior Pump Technologies (SPT), based in Chipping Norton, NSW, is the first SPX FLOW channel partner in Australia to achieve Certified Repair Centre status for Waukesha Cherry-Burrell (WCB) product lines.

Continuing to drive its strategy of increasing local product availability and support in China and the Asia-Pacific market, CIRCOR has opened for business at its expanded 6,000 sqm plant in the city of Weihai, Shandong province.

EBARA Bombas América do Sul Ltda.(EBAS*1) launches the “ANTENNA SHOP”, which is directly operated by EBAS, on April 22 in Vargem Grande do Sul (VGS) in the northeast of Sao Paulo state, Brazil*2.