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Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water (DCWW) has signed a three-year agreement with industrial artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Samotics for the on-going predictive condition monitoring of critical wastewater assets across its estate. This will help the water company intervene much earlier on potential incidents that could lead to pollution and unplanned downtime.

Vacuum technology is indispensable in paper sack manufacturing. It plays a vital role at several critical stages of the production process. At dy-pack, suction cups mounted on small robotic arms grip the sides of each sack blank, lift it from the stack and position it for the next process step. Vacuum ensures that the sacks are aligned one after the other so that the bottom can be opened in a controlled manner.

Together with environmental services provider PreZero and Enagás Renovable, WELTEC BIOPOWER began construction of a biomethane plant north of Madrid in August 2026. Once operational, the plant in Colmenar Viejo will generate up to 60 gigawatt-hours of green energy annually, equivalent to the energy requirements of approximately 11,700 households or 30,000 residents.

Long-term inspection validates reliability of grease-free turbine bearing and water quality package installed at Columbia Basin Hydropower’s Russell D. Smith Power Station.

International technology group ANDRITZ will supply the complete electromechanical equipment for the comprehensive refurbishment of SPEEH Hidroelectrica’s Râul Mare Retezat hydropower plant in Romania.

Sudsplanter Ltd has delivered a multi-site sustainable drainage project across seven schools in the London Borough of Merton helping to manage surface water runoff and reduce localised flooding. Identified by the council as being at high risk of surface water flooding through risk mapping, the schools had experienced recurring problems, including water pooling in playgrounds, that disrupted outdoor activities and, in some cases, flooding which impacted classrooms and learning environments.

Instead of climbing 8-metre-high tanks for risky manual dip-tape readings, Sanut Dominicana now monitors its tallow and lard storage automatically with 12 compact 80 GHz radar units, KROHNE’s OPTIWAVE 1520 – safer, more reliable, and free of pump dry-running or overfills.

Dependable high-pressure pumping is vital to modern longwall coal mining operations, but mines are increasingly looking beyond this requirement to apply integrated and automated solutions that respond dynamically to changing production conditions while providing real-time performance data.

During the separation of C-massecuite in a sugar mill, the manufacturer continuously monitors the flow of hot dilution water fed to the centrifuges. Despite tight installation conditions, cost-effective and reliable flow meters ensure the required measuring accuracy – boosting process stability and enabling efficient sugar recovery.

International technology group ANDRITZ, in partnership with the Slovak engineering firm VUJE, has been awarded by VODOHOSPODÁRSKA VÝSTAVBA a contract to carry out a comprehensive modernization of the Gabčíkovo hydroelectric power plant on the Danube.