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WEG has presented its CFW11W variable speed drive in Europe for the first time. The water-cooled drive offers up to 40% higher power in a more compact size than standard air-cooled inverters, enabling manufacturers across a wide range of industries to increase efficiency and optimise processes.

Sales of industrial pumps will reach $58.5 billion in 2019 according to the latest forecasts in Pumps World Market published by the McIlvaine Company.

In the last Supervisory Board meeting, the contract of CEO Oliver Hermes was extended early to last until 31 December 2020.

Wilo USA secures a 3-year re-certification of their ISO 9001 (International Organization for Standardization) Quality Management certification and continuation of their ISO 14001 environmental management system certification.

Clean water is in short supply in Singapore and therefore innovative thinking is necessary, as the city-state ensures its access to the scarce resource. Grundfos has received a good 1.2 million euro to sophisticate a brand new technology in which the waste water is treated through sludge. The cleansed water can help ease the strain on the water resources in the area.

Gerd von Brandenstein, Peter Gruss and Berthold Huber have announced that they will resign from the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG, effective the end of the Annual Shareholders Meeting on January 27, 2015. As of the spring of 2015, Gruss will head the new Siemens Technology & Innovation Council (STIC) that is being established by Siemens Managing Board.

AHR Expo Show Management has announced that the Council of Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration Educators (CARE) and the Partnership for Air Conditioning, Heating, Refrigeration Accreditation (PAHRA) have become the newest AHR Expo Endorsing Associations.

Xylem has been recognised with a leading Swedish business magazine’s ‘Swedish Innovation Prize’ for its Flygt SmartRun intelligent pump controller. Working in tandem with Xylem’s Flygt Experior wastewater pumping solution, SmartRun can reduce a wastewater pump station’s energy usage by up to 50 percent.

Providing a dependable, efficient and environmentally-friendly source of quality compressed air in a compact, towable unit are the important benefits of two new portable compressors introduced by HPC Kaeser.

The Meyer Werft Germany, Meyer Turku, STX France, and Fincantieri shipyards have all placed orders with Wärtsilä for the supply of fresh water generators to a total of seven cruise ships. The orders were placed between September and November 2014. Delivery of the Wärtsilä systems is scheduled to commence in May 2015 and will be completed by autumn 2017.