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Atlas Copco Compressors has announced the appointment of Keith Findlay as AIRScan Manager within its Compressor Technique Service division in the UK.

Operators of fossil and nuclear power plants will spend over $3 billion in 2014 for pumps to move water, slurries and condensate. East Asia will be the leading purchaser. This is the conclusion in Pumps World Market published by the McIlvaine Company.

Being awarded by the German corporate initiative DENEFF for developing the SuPremE synchronous reluctance motor was a good opportunity for the pump and valve manufacturer KSB to once more underline the massive savings IE4 motors can make compared with today’s most commonly used IE2 asynchronous motors.

In the regular meetings of the Voith Shareholders Committee and the Voith Supervisory Board on June 10 resp. June 11, 2014, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Hans-Peter Keitel (*1947), former President of the Federation of German Industries e. V. (BDI), has been elected as Chairman of both panels.

Pressure reducing and regulator valves are designed to meet the requirements of many industry sectors. Products include high flow, pressures and temperatures.

The established range of CSF pumps available through fluids handling specialists Pump Engineering now includes the CP Series, a close-coupled, single stage peripheral impeller pump which is ideally suited to high pressure, low flow hygienic applications.

Yet another addition has been made to KSB’s comprehensive range of heat transfer fluid pumps: In April the Frankenthal-based pump manufacturers introduced their new Etaline SYT series.

Caprari K-Kompact Series has the hydraulic fit for wastewater pumping, activated by high efficiency surface electric motors. These pumps are the most able in dry chamber applications to handle fluids with high percentage of sand and other solids.

Armstrong Fluid Technology has launched a new website designed to help industry professionals make the best decisions in selecting fluid flow solutions.

Rethinking entrenched design assumptions to create the space for improvements is a guiding principle that has already enabled Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme GmbH to implement significant improvements in rotary lobe and progressing cavity pumps.