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Effective as of March 15, 2015, Willi Meixner (50) will be appointed as the CEO of the Power and Gas Division as the successor to Roland Fischer (52), who left Siemens at his own request.

The Hydraulic Institute named Aleks Roudnev, Manager of Research and Design – Applied Hydraulics, Weir Minerals North America as its 2014 Member of the Year. The award was conferred to Mr. Roudnev at the Hydraulic Institute’s 2015 annual meeting held recently in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Numbering over 194 thousand employees and with 40 billion euros revenue, the mechanical engineering industry is the backbone of Italian industry as a whole and a true excellence both in Europe and the World. Anima, Confindustria s Federation of Italian Associations of Mechanical and Engineering Industries, is one of Europe s most important and well-established organizations comprising 34 Associations and over one thousand member companies.

The manufacturer of coated and uncoated wear components appoints DeGroot to the position after 7 years of service with the company.

The Sulzer Board of Directors has appointed Fabrice Billard as Chief Strategy Officer and member of the Sulzer Executive Committee. Billard, who is currently Head of the Mass Transfer Technology business unit of Chemtech, will assume his role as of March 1, 2015. He will be responsible for the implementation of the Sulzer Full Potential program.

Chuck Martin has recently joined the team at M & C Pump Americas, LLC as Executive Vice President and principal minority owner.

Flowserve Corporation announced that Michael Taff, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will be leaving the company. To ensure a smooth transition, Taff will be staying on through March 31.

Travis Horak, formerly the manager of Planning, will be the new manager of the Procurement/Planning Group. Travis will continue to report to Dan Kaplan, Operations Manager for Canby, Oregon.

Atlas Copco Portable Energy has appointed two new Product Marketing Managers and a new R&D Manager to support the rapid expansion of its pump business. Ola Hällgren is now responsible for the development and marketing of electrical pumps and Joakim Cronstrand will oversee diesel pumps. Martin Lindskog is the new R&D Manager.

Xylem announced the appointment of Anthony Milando as Senior Vice President for Continuous Improvement and Business Transformation, effective February 2, 2015. In this newly created position, Milando will be responsible for driving operational excellence and process simplification across the organization, reporting directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Decker.