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Extreme heat is pushing cooling demand to new highs, prompting countries to increasingly rely on fossil fuel-based power sources to keep the grids stable and flexible.

DAB Pumps has announced the appointment of Carolyn Bainbridge as Area Sales Manager – North, further strengthening the company’s UK sales team as it continues to expand its presence and support for installers, merchants and contractors across the region.

EBARA Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announce that they have reached an agreement on November 12, 2025, for the transfer of the following assets from Mitsubishi Electric to EBARA.

In 2025, VSX, a leading global provider of pump selection and sales software solutions, will celebrate 30 years of successful business operations as a limited liability company. The company celebrated this milestone on November 6, 2025, with its entire workforce in Dresden’s Neustadt district.

The Prädifa Technology Division of Parker Hannifin has published a comprehensively updated version of the O-Ring Handbook. The Parker O-Ring Handbook covers an extensive range of topics related to O-Rings and sealing technology and has enjoyed a longstanding reputation as a standard reference widely used by design engineers, maintenance experts, and purchasers around the world.

The Endress+Hauser Group has opened a new development and production building for liquid analysis at its Waldheim site in Saxony, Germany. The family-owned company has had a presence in Waldheim since 1990 and has steadily grown its operations there over the years. This latest expansion signals the company’s commitment to the region and enables further growth.

Valuable energy is lost in pressure reduction stations, exhaust steam pipes and condensation systems. With Energify system, the company CFT GmbH offers a simple and robust solution for the cost-effective conversion of even slight pressure differences into energy. This saves electricity costs and lowers CO₂ emissions. The system performance is controlled precisely with sliding gate valves from Schubert & Salzer.

Valmet has been awarded a Gold Medal in the EcoVadis sustainability assessment, placing the company among the top 5% of more than 150,000 companies assessed worldwide. EcoVadis evaluates companies across four categories: environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement. Valmet’s overall score was 82/100, six points higher than last year. The result places the company among the top two percent of all companies assessed by EcoVadis worldwide, bringing the company even closer to its goal, the Platinum Medal.

When it comes to dosing different fertilizers, Spanish filling and packaging specialist Maquienvas was discontent with their electromagnetic and mass flow meters. They therefore turned to NETZSCH, who recommended PERIPRO peristaltic pumps specifically for this application that requires handling abrasive, corrosive and organic fluids.

Vesconite Bearings is pleased to confirm that its long-established Standard Vesconite bearing material is completely free of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and has been since its development in 1969.