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In 1901 Peter Alfred Stenberg opened up a glass mould factory in the small village of Lindås in southern Sweden. Little did he know that he had built the foundation for the world’s most successful submersible liquid handling company.

QUINCY, Ill., June 14 /PRNewswire/ — Gardner Denver, Inc. (NYSE: GDI) announced today that it has received a substantial order for drilling pumps from Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., a subsidiary of Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (NYSE: HP). The amount of the order is in excess of $12 million and requires deliveries throughout the remainder of 2001 and mid-2002.

BRIDGEPORT, NEW JERSEY – Godwin Pumps of America, Inc. (GPA), the largest manufacturer and rental supplier of portable pumping systems in North and South America, has announced its acquisition of Godwin Pumps Limited (GPL), Quenington, England. The combined companies will have sales in excess of $100 million.

The new hermetical pump series TAIFUN of Wernert-Pumpen (Germany) is equipped with internal anticorrosion protection plus outer closed metallic cover for highest safety requirements.

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NORTHBROOK, Ill., June 11 /PRNewswire/ — IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX), a leading manufacturer of proprietary industrial products, reported that it will combine its Corken business unit with Liquid Controls, which IDEX acquired in January 2001.

CLEVELAND, June 8 /PRNewswire/ — Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE: PH) was recognized in a worldwide survey of product design engineers as the global leader in fluid power technologies. Parker is the leading supplier of a full range of motion and control technologies, including fluid power.

Machinery and plant design involving compressed air-driven vacuum pumps can be greatly eased by the new P3010 vacuum pump. So claims the vacuum technology company PIAB, which has introduced a range of pumps with an emphasis on modularity and efficiency.

New model 893-09 or -10 pumps with brushless 12 or 24 volt D.C. motors can be run in open air or fully submerged in water.

The E5 Groundable Acetal 1/2″ pump can be used to safely transfer non-conductive fluids such as solvents through the use of a specific plastic composite which can be grounded to dissipate a static charge. It has been independently lab tested and certified for quality assurance and safety.