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NORTHBROOK, Ill., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX), today announced that Gregory B. Kenny, 49, joined its board of directors.

PARSIPPANY, NJ, January 31, 2002 – The Hydraulic Institute (HI) has teamed with Ternion Conferencing, a full-service audio and web conferencing company based in Chicago, to provide secure, reliable, cost-effective conferencing technology to all its members and associate members.

Late in November 2001, the valve factories of KSB Armaturen GmbH in Germany, France, Luxembourg and India were certified to meet the requirements laid down in the European Pressure Equipment Directive (PED). Accreditation was granted by the German TÜV (Association for Technical Supervision) and Lloyds Register.

Kirloskar Brothers Limited, (KBL), India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of pumps, is introducing the new IL range of inline vertical multistage pumps manufactured in pressed stainless steel sheet metal – the first pressed stainless steel pump range from Kirloskars.

The Rovatti submersible range, already designed designed to assure the maximum flexibility to meet the various requests, adds to the family its eldest sister for waste water applications: pump type RH150 for sewage, raw water, storm and effluent water, without long fibres.

In addition to stationary pneumatic diaphragm pumps mobile units are also required in many production plants…

The new submersible pumps of Caprari’s MAT series with shredder become indispensable, when small isolated areas are far from the sewer system and in those particular situations where the installations is often expensive by using a gravity system. Economic and reliable grinder pumps, they represent the best solution for low capacities.

Cardo has acquired the Finnish company Nopon Oy, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of products for aeration in connection with biological wastewater treatment. Nopon has a turnover of approximately SEK 120 million and employs 65 people. The Cardo Pump business area’s range of products for the water and wastewater segment is being supplemented by this acquisition.

Put the Bite on Unwanted Water With the PITBULL Sump Ejector

The series consists of 13 sizes with 1 up to a maximum of 18 stages — horizontal (series MKH, MKE) or vertical (series MKV) centrifugal pumps with closed impellers.