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In the future Endress+Hauser Oy will be the exclusive provider of Endress+Hauser field devices and related solutions and services in the Finnish market. The new company started operations as of 1 July 2015 and resume all business responsibilities which include maintaining the longstanding customer relationships with companies in the Finnish process industries.

The RCE chemical centrifugal pump from Friatec AG – Division Rheinhütte Pumpen offers a reliable and durable solution for varied and difficult pumping tasks in many areas of industry.

Xylem has launched a new YouTube channel dedicated to its Flygt brand. The new channel features informative, engaging content including a behind-the-scenes video of one of Xylem’s main factories producing Flygt branded solutions, a Flygt Experior non-clog test, service ‘how-to’ guides, product information videos and case stories demonstrating Flygt in action.

EagleBurgmann, a Joint Venture of the Freudenberg and EKK Group, acquired Tianjin Nibot Seal Technology Co. Ltd., the Chinese company in Tianjin, to 100% on June 19, 2015. Tianjin is a major industrial center and an important seaport in the northeast of China, approximately 145 kilometers from Peking.

The first vacuum pump with hygienic design in the world has been introduced by Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems. This new rotary vane vacuum pump was developed specially for foodstuffs packaging with tray sealers and thermoforming machines, and is designed to be cleaned using steam jets and conventional detergents.

Transferring highly corrosive and dangerous fluids requires reliable solutions to warrant an absolute tightness of pumps against atmosphere. Richter further improved the hermetically sealed PFA lined magnetic drive pump MNK by means of the new Safeseal secondary seal technology.

Amarinth has invested over £1M in designing and launching a new reliable low-maintenance range of API 610 VS4 vertical sulphur pumps for the oil and gas industry.

Xylem congratulates Perry Alagappan of Houston, Texas, as the 2015 winner of the United States Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), the world’s most prestigious youth award for water-related science and technology projects.

Tapflo CTM horizontal centrifugal pumps are pumps of centrifugal type where the power from the motor is transmitted to the centrifugal impeller by means of a magnetic coupling. CTM pumps are designed and manufactured for chemical transfer and circulation surface treatment industries. Now Tapflo introduces the biggest CTM pump in range.

The announced joint venture with Saudi Pump Factory was completed on June 29, 2015. Sulzer signed the agreement for the acquisition of a 75% stake in Saudi Pump Factory in February 2014.