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ITT Industries announced second quarter 2005 net income of $137.7 million, up $25.7 million over the second quarter 2004 including the net benefit of special items.

“Strong orders received during the second quarter 2005 gave an increase with almost nine percent, excluding exchange rate variations”, Lars Renström, President and CEO.

On September 16, Allweiler will host a specialty trade fair at their Radolfzell headquarters in southern Germany. The exhibits and presentations will focus on applications for pumps and ready-to-use components in power plants.

With sales virtually unchanged, Allweiler closed the year 2004 with a significantly higher level of incoming orders and an order backlog. During the first five months of 2005, the company bucked the general trend with incoming orders that were 10 percent higher than the previous year and 15 percent higher than projected.

Davey Products’ RainBank was selected as a finalist for the Product of the Year 2005 of the GreenSmart Awards of the Australian Housing Industry Association HIA. GreenSmart are the only exclusive built environment awards in Australia.

With the new series CN…B, CNF…B und CNK…B, HERMETIC presents enlarged standard series in modular construction principle up to 126 kW. The new B-Series replaces and extends after five years the successful A-Series.

Bunny village in Nottinghamshire (UK), has a long history and many impressive historical buildings. The new small green Bunny Hill booster station provided by Grundfos Pumps may not be one of them, but it has nevertheless aroused considerable interest in UK water supply circles.

ITT Flygt Canada announced the signing of a multi-million dollar contract to supply a complete installed package of 14 pumping stations, accessories, controls, etc. with engineering company Dessau-Soprin, Montreal for the Venezuelan Ministry of the Environment around the city of Barcelona in Northeast Venezuela.

ITT Flygt has launched a Life Cycle Cost (LCC) e-learning course from its website www.flygt.co.uk, aimed at providing easily accessible information to customers about how they can reduce ownership, maintenance and energy costs by using the LCC solution.

The Weir Group PLC has entered into agreements to dispose of the desalination and water treatment businesses of its Techna Division to Veolia Water Systems, part of Veolia Water, the water division of Veolia Environnement.