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Pentair is now a pure play water company with a comprehensive range of smart, sustainable water solutions for homes, businesses, industry and communities. Pentair has separated from its electrical business, which is now called nVent Electric plc (“nVent”), a new independent, publicly traded company, effective April 30.

Endress+Hauser submitted 261 patent applications in 2017. The company owns a total of 7,479 active property rights around the world. Innovators are honored at the Group’s annual Innovators’ Meeting.

Siemens will be focusing on the digitalization of water and waste water plants. Companies and municipalities are increasing both the efficiency and security of supply by, for example, planning, simulating and optimizing plants and processes using a digital twin.

Pentair commemorated World Water Day 2018 through its philanthropic work in Kenya with The Nature Conservancy s Upper Tana-Nairobi Water Fund. World Water Day is an international observance created by the United Nations to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and advocate for sustainable freshwater resources.

Atlas Copco has inaugurated an expanded innovation center in Bretten, Germany. The center will meet growing customer demand for testing and developing innovative joining technologies.

Xylem called on the public and private sectors to work together to improve the collection and sharing of water data.

Atlas Copco honored the 25th annual World Water Day by focusing on the importance of water.

In the past, Stallkamp has repeatedly implemented projects for sewage treatment plants and the wastewater industry. In addition to various sludge tanks, this also in-cluded complex wastewater treatment plants such as a stainless steel tank with a stainless steel floor or a funnel-shaped secondary clarifier.

Armstrong Fluid Technology has announced a new Performance Management Service offering, available with the purchase of all new Design Envelope pumps.

Pentair has announced an expansion with plans to build a new, state-of-the-art innovation center in Apex, North Carolina.