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With a global membership of more than 220 companies, SOCMA is the only US-based trade association dedicated solely to the specialty chemical industry. As this industry segment’s leading authority, SOCMA represents a diverse membership of small, medium and large chemical companies which employ more than 46,000 people in the US alone. The value of the products and services provided by SOCMA members exceeds $24 billion.

A single progressing cavity pump form NOV Mono has been used to replace a number of centrifugal pumps and improve pumping performance on an agricultural effluent duty in New Zealand. The Mono pump is now transferring animal effluent over considerable distances at Castle Glen Farms in Foxton, on New Zealand’s North Island.

Morrison Pump Company, Inc. is proud to announce it has successfully completed and passed its re-certification audit for its Quality Management System to ISO 9001:2008 Full Design standard.

Xylem was presented with a Silver Medal Innovation Award from the German agriculture organization Deutsche Landwirtschafts Gesellschaft (DLG) at the Bioenergy Decentral Fair which took place at Hanover Fairground, November 11 -14.

The board of directors of Franklin Electric has elected Jennifer Sherman to be a director of the company effective January 1, 2015.

A new range of heavy duty hydraulic drive high pressure cleaners with pressures up to 500 BAR (7,300 psi) have been released by Australian Pump Industries. Years of product development and market research have led to the development of the full range hydraulic drive blasters that are ideal for mobile plant cleaning applications, especially in the mining industry.

Hermetic-Pumpen GmbH has launched a new, highly flexible modular system for the chemical industry. The Hermetic canned motor pump ranges provide the basis for individually configurable pumps that, thanks to the huge number of possible combinations of the individual modules, are available in around 700,000,000 variations.

The wide variety of applications that can be accommodated by Moyno progressing cavity (PC) pumps has been highlighted by an offshore application. Ten of Moyno’s 2000 Series pumps have been ordered for a new fleet of offshore supply vessels that will be used to service drilling rigs worldwide.

Every commercial and industrial company in Europe is subject to a multitude of regulations for the protection of staff, users and the environment. This not only affects the manufacturing machines themselves, but also the pump systems being used.

With the introduction of the Euro 6 emission standard, manufacturers have a duty to further reduce emissions of nitrous oxides in new diesel vehicles. As a result, new technologies for improving emission control are currently in demand on the market – and Scherzinger is offering the perfect gear pump solution.