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ITT Flygt, one of the founders of the Stockholm Water Prize, and sponsors of the Swedish Junior Water Prize, once again took part in the Stockholm Water Week. This year marked the tenth anniversary of the event, and the theme for the Stockholm Water Symposium was “Water Security for the 21st Century – Innovative Approaches”

The constantly increasing demand for drinking water creates considerable investments in the field of sea water desalination plants. The company GEA Jet Pumps of Ettlingen, one of the market leaders in the field of jet pump technology, benefits from this development. The company has received another large-scale order for five multiple-stage steam jet vacuum pumps with precondensers for a sea water desalination plant in Abu Dhabi.

Energy-Saving Pumps Meet Olympic Goal of “Green Games”

KSB Limited of Loughborough, the UK arm of KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, has acquired the companies Prüftechnik Services Limited and Pumpserve Limited in a deal that will increase KSB’s service capability across the UK.

Leading manufacturer of high viscosity pumps consequently enlarges his product range!

Homa Pumpenfabrik GmbH, Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, has expanded the Chromatic submersible pump series by two more powerful models. They are designed for application in stationary pump sumps as well as for using as mobile emergency pump in case of overflow. This series includes the optimal pumps for pumping from cellars, sumps and pits.

Lutz Pumpen has developed a new container pump in vertical, wet-end centrifugal construction which combines high capacity, low weight, high level of operational safety, continuous operation suitability and low speed.

Homa Pumpenfabrik GmbH has launched its web site at homa-pumpen.de now. You will find there a complete overview about the products, including planning and selection hints, a facility to order the pump selection software, the latest company and product news and much more. Homa Pumpen is a German based manufacturer of pumps for wastewater and sewage pumping, dewatering, sanitary technology as well as lifting stations and per-assembled sewage sumps.

Unfortunately the web site is currently available in German language only.

Wincaps 7.0 can be used as a valuable tool for searching for the right pump required for a certain job. The program will guide you through a series of choices such as which flow-rate, maximum pressure, fluid temperature etc. the pump must sustain and based on this information, Wincaps will present a range of pumps that comply with the information provided.

VSX plans to present a new pump search engine at the Pump Users International Forum 10.-12. October 2000 in Karlsruhe. This will be an improved version of the internet pump selection system Spaix® Online. The main focus of the development points to the combination of a complete technical product selection with the idea of B2B. There are different ways of search depending from application and user profile, e.g. via duty point, area of application or pump type.