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You’re back on home ground after a great summer holiday when you suddenly start feeling rough: your head hurts, you develop a cough, and instead of sun, sand and cocktails, you’ve got fever and the chills. It’s down to legionnaires’ disease, a severe form of pneumonia caused by water-borne Legionella. Lutz-Jesco, a specialist in water disinfection technologies, explains what holidaymakers should watch out for.

The Heidelberg-based company offers customised solutions for industrial applications that combine measuring and control technology with metering technology and water treatment systems. The measuring and control technology is at the heart of such solutions and ensures optimum process control.

Finish Thompson Inc. (FTI) highlights its Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) drum pumps, designed to meet the rigorous demands of modern Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) systems. These pumps offer unmatched reliability, compatibility, and versatility, making them the ideal choice for a wide range of industrial settings.

Around 359 billion cubic meters of wastewater is produced globally each year. As well as municipal wastewater, a broad range of industrial processes produce wastewater, such as chemical manufacturing, food processing and powerplants.

Vanessa Hellwing has been appointed to the ANDRITZ AG Executive Board as of January 1, 2025. She will succeed Norbert Nettesheim as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on March 28, 2025.

Under the motto “Fit for the digital future” actuator company AUMA is enhancing its range of service offerings. The AUMA Retrofit Service helps plant designers and operators upgrade their existing plants with state-of-the-art, high-performance valve actuation technology, improving plant performance and reducing operating costs.

The Endress+Hauser success story has been closely tied to the Maulburg location in southern Germany for more than 60 years. The Group’s oldest and largest production facility will now undergo a comprehensive modernization and expansion.

When building a new facility to develop semiconductors in Brisbane, Australia, Silanna Semiconductor needed a reliable supply of ultrapure water (UPW). Using a multi-stage solution from Xylem, the semiconductor manufacturer can now convert 70% of readily available municipal water into Type E-1 ultrapure water. The solution minimizes maintenance and downtime, reduces chemical use, and increases water efficiency.

Since July 15, 2024, Sunil Pandiri is part of the global Board of Management of Voith Hydro. As Chief Service Officer he will continue to strategically expand the company’s service portfolio. The role was newly created in order to meet the requirements of customers and their hydropower plants in the best possible way; making service a priority on top level.

The new DULCOMETER diaLog X multi-parameter controller ensures that complex water treatment systems run as efficiently as possible. The controller is extremely flexible and suitable for multiple parameters. The controller is scalable and manages several systems simultaneously and decentrally.