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HMS Group announces its interim management statement and financial highlights for the three months ended March 31, 2014. The financial data are based on management accounts only and are not reviewed by external auditors.

Combining the Chemineer Model 20 HT/GT mixer with the Chemineer RL-3 impeller creates an ideal mixer for wastewater treatment plant applications. The high-efficiency gearbox of the Model 20 and the unique characteristics of the RL-3 impeller work together to eliminate downtime and maintenance costs, increase performance and extend the service life of the agitator.

The KSB Group has announced a large investment in its La Roche-Chalais factory located in the west of France. The aim is to strengthen and extend the company’s position on the global cryogenic valves market.

Effective July 1, 2014, Janina Kugel will assume the position of Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) for Siemens AG in addition to her current responsibilities as Head of Personnel Strategy and Executive Development.

NOV Mono has provided ten progressing cavity pumps which are installed at the heart of a new wastewater treatment works in Sussex. The Southern Water works in Peacehaven features a number of different Mono pumps, including EZstrip cake pumps, LF injection pumps and Widethroat pumps.

Stainless Steel Closed Coupled (BLZ) centrifugal pumps from Wilo USA are base-mounted pumps featuring end suction-centerline discharge design, compact design, a foot-mounted volute and permanently lubricated ball bearings.

The world market for air and gas, water and other liquids flow and treatment equipment and services will exceed $387 billion in 2015 up from $367 billion in 2014. This is the latest forecast in Market Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Market published by the McIlvaine Company.

The Hydraulic Institute, in collaboration with Henri Azibert, Technical Director of the Fluid Sealing Association and associated HI committee members, has developed a new webinar session focused on how dual gas seals improve pump system reliability and performance.

Water and environmental protection specifications, efficiency and economic questions have resulted in sewage plant processes becoming very complex. Media of different viscosities from untreated waste water up to thickened sludge must be handled. In order to ensure smooth conveyance at all stages, different types of pumps from the company Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme GmbH were combined in a Swabian sewage plant.

Baker Hughes Incorporated announced the appointment of Greg Brenneman, chairman of CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC (CCMP Capital), and W.H. “Bill” Easter III, retired chairman, president, and chief executive officer of DCP Midstream, to its board of directors.