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Busch Vacuum Solutions and Pfeiffer Vacuum are jointly constructing a new sales, systems and service center in Sisseln, Switzerland, 35 km east of Basel. The ground-breaking ceremony has recently taken place, and the new building is expected to be completed in 2025.

ABB announced that the Board of Directors will propose Johan Forssell and Mats Rahmström as new members for election at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 21, 2024.

Operators of offshore platforms are very focused on the reliability of their equipment. Working in such a remote location means that major repairs, if not carefully planned, can result in extended downtime and loss of production. For one platform in Malaysia, a change in output was shortly followed by an increased rate of seal failures on the condensate pumps – an issue that was effectively resolved with a Sulzer retrofit, through their OEM-X line service.

Pentair plc today announced fourth quarter 2023 sales of $985 million. Sales were down 2 percent compared to sales for the same period last year. Excluding currency translation, acquisitions and divestitures, core sales declined 2 percent in the fourth quarter.

Type 1 diabetics entrust their lives to insulin pumps. That is why durable functional reliability is such an important feature of the small devices’ sealing mechanism. Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has now entered into a new purchase agreement for seals with the Swiss medical technology specialist Ypsomed that significantly exceeds the previous order volume.

Preventing contamination is a crucial element in the design of hygienic processing lines. Yet manufacturers often face uncertainty when cleaning ducts, tanks and other confined spaces with hard-to-reach shadow areas. The new Alfa Laval Free Rotating Retractor, a high-efficiency retractable cleaning device, provides complete cleaning assurance, enhancing product safety while boosting uptime and productivity.

In December 2023, WILO SE successfully secured the largest financing package in its over 150-year company history. A promissory note loan (Schuldscheindarlehen) totalling 270 million euros was placed in the international capital market and a syndicated loan totalling 300 million euros was refinanced among the core banks.

In the face of growing public concern about the presence of micropollutants in water and wastewater, Dr Pablo Campo Moreno senior lecturer in applied chemistry at Cranfield University’s water science institute, identifies those taking the lead in tackling them. As the phrase, forever chemicals, enters the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time in 2024, and these fluorinated substances expand the list of micropollutants, it might be time for a change in the way these persistent environmental pollutants are tackled.

A variable frequency drive (VFD) that is fully sealed and weather tight with a UL Type 4X/IP66 rating. The drive employs water industry-specific software features and settings and it is designed for operation in environments where extreme rain, heat, snow, cold, or dust is experienced.

With its new InnoPET BloFill ACF-R aseptic block the Dortmund systems supplier wants to set new standards in safety and hygiene when it comes to bottle sterilization. KHS will be presenting this at Anuga FoodTec in Cologne in March.