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By the beginning of June, 163 exhibitors – from Belgium (76%), the Netherlands (16%), Germany, Italy, China, Luxembourg and the USA – had announced their participation at Pumps & Valves, the trade fair for industrial pumps, control valves, shutt-off valves, services and accessories. New at Pumps & Valves 2002 are: the Service Village, the fringe programme (comprising seminars and product presentations), job vacancies and Package and VIP formula.

ABS launches the next generation of SANIMAX®, the compact wastewater lifting station for domestic applications.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Hydra-Cell Industrial Pumps, Wanner Engineering Inc., introduces Hydra-Cell D-15 Series industrial pumps. This long-lasting industrial pump features the proven sealless Hydra-Cell design with five hydraulically balanced diaphragms for accurate, virtually pulse-free positive displacement delivery.

Chairman Louis Giuliano announced that the company is in discussion with the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) in China to sponsor China’s entry into the prestigious Stockholm Junior Water Prize starting in 2003.

Cost-effective pumping has been synonymous with ABS for many years. It means offering the optimal solution for every application, whether for a pump, mixer, agitator or aerator. Now ABS offers a LCC (Life Cycle Cost) calculator on the web.

Intensive trials and hard series of tests by means of a pilot plant have qualified the hose diaphragm piston pump of the FELUWA Pumpen GmbH, Mürlenbach, for the wet oxidation process for waste-water treatment.

On the morning of Wednesday, June 19, Manfred Wolf, a member of the Executive Board of Coperion Holding GmbH, Konstanz (Germany), unexpectedly died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 64. He passed away while taking part in a meeting for the Coperion Group, the Plant Engineering Group of the Georg Fischer Corporation.

The successful blower units DELTA BLOWER of the Aerzener Maschinenfabrik GmbH have been modified specially for applications in the range of landfill- and biogas as well as also natural – or town gas. Consequently the customer can select from one of the most extensive blower series those unit optimal for his case of application. With totally 10 sizes the DELTA BLOWER for biogas now cover intake volume flows of 60 m³/h up to 2.500 m³/h and overpressures up to 1.000 mbar.

The BOERGER – UNIHACKER is a disintegrating device for raw sewage and sludge.

The influence of liquid pumps on the safety and availability of materials processing units is often underestimated. For the handling of toxic, abrasive and aggressive media, the utilization of such pumps is recommendable whereby the fluid is not in contact with sliding seals. The FELUWA hose diaphragm piston pump is a hermetically sealed, leak-proof, reciprocating positive displacement pump with unique technical and economical value.