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On 28 September KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, tested the largest feed pump ever built since the foundation of the company 125 years ago. The full load pump weighing around 40 tonnes is intended for the new 1000 MW block of a lignite-fired power station in Niederaussem near Cologne.

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Denmark

As the first large company in Denmark, Grundfos on October 9 received the certificate of the OHSAS 18001 standard (Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems). The certificate was presented by the Danish Standards Association.

Aquatech Amsterdam 2000, with over 740 companies exhibiting, is Europe’s largest environmental trade fair. Held in the picturesque Dutch capitol, this year the focus was on integrated water management, and the way in which the borders between management of drinking water, wastewater and industrial water are fading, resulting in companies and organisations looking for total solutions that cross these sectors.

According to a Harris Interactive study Goulds Pumps leads its competitors in reliability, delivery, local service support, product offering and company reputation

The Summer Olympics is the world’s greatest sporting event, and more than 15,000 athletes and officials are gathered at the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney. The Olympics puts high demands on the water supply and water treatment in the area, and a lot of investments have been made in modern technology.

ABS has launched the first issue of its new international magazine ABS

Partners.

The magazine presents cost-effective solutions from all over the world for water and wastewater treatment, within the building and construction area and for process industry applications. ABS Partners can be downloaded from the ABS web site ww.abspumps.com

For the first time ever Grundfos awarded a prize to the student project of the year at an informal event at Grundfos headquarters in Bjerringbro on Sep. 18, 2000.

ITT Flygt, one of the founders of the Stockholm Water Prize, and sponsors of the Swedish Junior Water Prize, once again took part in the Stockholm Water Week. This year marked the tenth anniversary of the event, and the theme for the Stockholm Water Symposium was “Water Security for the 21st Century – Innovative Approaches”

The constantly increasing demand for drinking water creates considerable investments in the field of sea water desalination plants. The company GEA Jet Pumps of Ettlingen, one of the market leaders in the field of jet pump technology, benefits from this development. The company has received another large-scale order for five multiple-stage steam jet vacuum pumps with precondensers for a sea water desalination plant in Abu Dhabi.