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Arbo pumps and filters was founded 60 years ago in Amsterdam by Arnold van den Born (explains the company name Arbo) and is since the last 50 years located in Smilde.

Messe München is expanding its international trade fair network in the environmental technology sector with an additional event in South Africa: The “IFAT Environmental Technology Forum – Water, Sewage, Refuse and Recycling – Solutions for the Mining and Construction Industry” will take place for the first time from September 15 to 18, 2015 co-located with BAUMA CONEXPO AFRICA. Messe München International and its subsidiary MMI South Africa (Pty) Ltd. are organizing the event.

Voith is to modernize one of the generators at one of the most important pumped storage power plants in Germany. The recently awarded contract from E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH involves the replacement, assembly and commissioning of the stator and rotor of machine 6 at the Waldeck 2 pumped storage power plant in North Hesse, Germany.

As part of the “725 HWTII” project, KSB has successfully tested a high-performance gate valve at the “Großkraftwerk Mannheim (GKM)” power plant. The gate valve is designed for a new generation of fossil-fuelled power stations with improved efficiency achieved by using steam temperatures above 700 °C.

The already popular small STN series of close coupled high torque magnetic drive pumps is now available compliant to the ATEX directive.

Ebara has delivered eight pump trucks for emergency drainage to the Philippines. The drainage pump truck is equipped with ultra-lightweight pumps (about 20kg), hose, an operation panel, and a generator, and is capable of moving drainage facilities to flooded areas for early recovery and damage prevention.

National Oilwell Varco, Inc. announces that its Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Dwight W. Rettig, plans to retire effective October 1, 2014, and that the Company has chosen Craig L. Weinstock as his successor.

Calpeda supplied Fincantieri, one of the most important shipyards in the world, with two booster sets for the same number of submarines under construction for the Italian Navy.

Following the continued demand for building services, Xylem Water Solutions UK has bolstered its national Domestic Building Services (DBS) team with representatives now located throughout the UK.

Voith has received two new orders to supply the equipment for hydropower plants in the Himalayas: These comprise the complete electromechanical equipment for three generating units at the Rasuwaghadi Hydropower Plant in Nepal as well as the modernization of six turbine runners at the Salal Hydroelectric Project in India. The two projects have a total order volume of more than 23 million Euros and will both be carried out by Voith Hydro in India.