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German pump manufacturer KSB has developed a new ballast water treatment system (BWTS) for marine applications. On 10 August 2015, DNV-GL confirmed that this system successfully completed the land-based tests with fresh, brackish and seawater as per the USCG/ETV test protocol.

The Hydro Equipment Association (HEA) introduced its Global Technology Roadmap – a blueprint for Hydropower’s place in today’s and tomorrow’s energy mix and a call to action for national decision- and policy-makers around the world.

The pump and valve manufacturer is investing about 75 million US dollars in its US site in Grovetown, of which 40 million US dollars are going to the new foundry. Investments in the KSB subsidiary GIW Industries are to prime the site to meet the mining industry’s rising global demand for white cast iron pumps.

Increasing energy efficiency through the adoption of readily available wastewater management technologies can slash related emissions by nearly half, according to a new study released by Xylem. The analysis further concludes that 95 percent of the electricity-related emissions abatement can be achieved at negative or neutral cost.

Many vacuum applications only operate in a certain pressure range. In order to operate vacuum systems with high precision, the total pressure must be measured reliably. For this purpose, Pfeiffer Vacuum offers a range of different measurement equipment series with a digital or analog signal output, which is now being expanded with the addition of the CenterLine series.

Two new additions to the SPX Hydraulic Technologies range of hydraulic spreader kits have just been launched onto the market.

Tapflo is proud to announce its new distributor, Al Sharq as its sole distributor of Tapflo products in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Amarinth has opened a new office in Malaysia to handle increasing demand in the Asia Pacific region, including two orders this year for API 610 pumps from National Oilwell Varco for water treatment plants being built in Singapore and destined for Total’s new Egina FPSO vessel and the Mariner platform in the North Sea.

Xylem has produced the 4 millionth Flygt wastewater pump at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Sweden. Xylem is the first international pump manufacturer to have produced this quantity of wastewater pumps at the same facility.

Tencarva officially relocated recently to a larger facility at 14 Park Place Court in Greenville, S. C., after the completion of renovation of an existing building, according to Edwin W. Pearce, III, president of Tencarva.