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Charles Austen Pumps announce a new agreement with Hiblow of Japan to represent their linear diaphragm pumps in the UK and other related markets.

John Michael Paz, President of Bridgeport, New Jersey-based Godwin Pumps, was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP.

Flowserve Corp. reported that it completed on Aug. 12, 2005, its previously announced $1 billion refinancing of its high yield notes, Term A and Term C loans, and consolidation of its revolving credit and backup liquidity facilities.

The rising costs of energy are shaping the $27 billion/yr pump market in a number of ways. This is one of the conclusions in the continually updated Pumps: World Market report, published by the McIlvaine Company.

Awal Gulf Manufacturing has become the first company from Bahrain to join the ranks of exhibitors at Building Solutions Poland 2005, taking the largest stand of all international exhibitors. Advantix Spa also first time exhibitors from Italy …

During the first six months of 2005, the Grundfos Group has registered pre-tax profits of DKK 432m. Apart from last year’s record of DKK 461m, this is the best interim result ever. Sales have increased by 7 per cent, and turnover reached DKK 6.356 b.

Wilo has extended their Multivert MVI range of high-pressure centrifugal pumps with the new models MVI 32 C and 52 C, with 30 and 37 kW motors and with the new Wilo-Multivert MVI 70 series.

Providing a wide range of high quality spare parts which are fully interchangeable with most manufacturers of progressing cavity pumps, is a new service recently launched by Robbins & Myers in the UK.

Cardo Group reports decreased sales and earnings in the interim report for the first half year 2005, while the pump business (ABS Pumps) shows a positive trend in the infow of orders. The company announces a group-wide reorganization into a purely operational industrial group aimed at business-to-business customers.

In the first six months of 2005, the volume of orders in the KSB Group increased by 14.3 percent compared with the same period last year. Sales revenue increased by 12.8 percent.