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Based on the Group’s Mission, Vision and Company Values Grundfos has established a policy, which covers the entire Group concerning its social responsibility (Corporate Social Responsibility) and which describes the Group’s relations with its employees, local community, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.

Dresden, Germany, 2002-08-14 – The headquarter of VSX – VOGEL SOFTWARE, a leading provider of software and Internet solutions for the pump industry, is closed today because the flood disaster in Dresden.

Anti-corrosion coating and engineering specialists Corrocoat have been awarded a contract worth £360,000 to provide corrosion protection and fluid efficiency systems for the concrete volute pumps, vertical turbine pumps and associated pipework making up the world’s largest irrigation and pumping scheme in Gujarat State, India.

A new series of small state-of-the-art liquid pumps providing high capacity, high endurance and low noise for OEM and retrofit use in fluid power systems has been introduced by Haskel International. Available with 1″ or 2″ stroke, the economical HLP3 pumps are designed for fluid power applications requiring economy and durability.

From 1 January 2003 Process Director Lars Aagaard will take over Poul Vesterbæk’s position as CEO of Grundfos A/S.

At the fair METAV in the June of this year in Duesseldorf Willy Vogel AG has presented its Spandau HPS Srew Pumps.

With the Spandau PXA immersion pump Willy Vogel AG came to the fair METAV in this year. What’s special about the PXA is its sealless design.

Producing highly engineered, quality vertical pumps has been a legacy of Johnston for over 90 years. As a continuing commitment to meet or exceed customer needs, Johnston has introduced a Standard Turbine Pump series.

From the Hilge GmbH according to Qualified Hygienic Design developed single and multi-stage centrifugal pumps of the Contra-Range get the EHEDG certificate. As part of this development, the Department for Machine and Apparatus Studies in Munich – Weihenstephan was commissioned to test the wet-end part for cleanability using the EHEDG Cleanability Method.

Pfeiffer Vacuum, a leading manufacturer of high-quality vacuum pumps, vacuum gauges and mass spectrometers, as well as complete vacuum systems, announces its results for the 1st half of 2002.