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The UK water sector’s AMP8 programme will invest more than £100 billion in infrastructure over five years. In this guest comment, BPMA Technical Officer Gary Wilde argues that success will depend on more than capital alone — whole-life procurement, resilient supply chains and investment in skills and technology.

Emerson recently launched the TESCOMTM RC-X motorized injection rate control valve, which supports accurate, repeatable dosing of offshore chemicals to maintain flow assurance for refineries and reduce overall chemical injection costs.

Valmet has appointed Max Luedtke as Executive Vice President, Pulp, Energy and Circularity business area and a member of Valmet’s Executive Leadership Team. He will start in his position on September 1, 2026, and will be based in Tikkurila, Vantaa, Finland.

In vacuum technology, precision and reliability are critical. Whatever the application, vacuum equipment must always provide the same level of performance in order to produce consistent results. Non-genuine components may look the same as genuine parts, but their inconsistent quality can reduce efficiency, compromise reliability, and increase total cost-of-ownership. This article explains how genuine spare parts and oil preserve vacuum pump efficiency, reliability and performance, and outlines the risks of substandard substitutes.

NETZSCH Pumps USA, a provider of complex fluid handling solutions, announces that James Brown has joined NETZSCH as LACT Pipeline Territory Sales Manager.

Lutz-Jesco is expanding its research and development in safe chlorine gas technologies. The aim is to improve the handling of chlorine gas further and to make drinking water disinfection even safer. Although chlorine gas is classified as a hazardous substance, it remains indispensable in many regions of the world for the safe and economical disinfection of large quantities of water.

The boom in artificial intelligence and cloud services is driving the construction of new data centers worldwide. At the same time, the need for high-performance cooling systems – and thus for clean water – is increasing. Efficient water filtration is becoming a crucial factor for operational reliability, energy efficiency, and sustainability.

A circulator pump may be a relatively small part of a heating system, but choosing the right one can have a significant bearing on installation time, energy consumption and long-term reliability. With EVOSTA 3, DAB Pumps has developed its circulator range to give installers a high-quality, efficient pump that is straightforward for them to fit, set up and leave working with confidence.

Finish Thompson highlights its SP Series pumps, a highly efficient self-priming pump designed for transferring corrosive chemicals and dense fluids, ensuring safe and reliable fluid handling across various stages of production or treatment processes.

As offshore oil and gas developments expand into deeper waters and more technically challenging environments, the industry continues to prioritize equipment reliability, pressure integrity, and lifecycle performance. In deepwater operations, where maintenance interventions are costly and production downtime can have significant financial and environmental implications, the performance of critical flow-control components has never been more important.