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Flowserve Corp. announced it has acquired Innovative Mag-Drive, LLC, or Innomag(TM), a privately owned American manufacturer of advanced sealless magnetic drive centrifugal pumps used primarily in the chemical and general industries.

Pump and valve manufacturer KSB has announced a change in the Board of Management at the turn of the year. On 31 December 2013 Professor Dr. Dieter-Heinz Hellmann (71) will retire from the Board of Management of KSB AG as planned; he will assume a function in the KSB-Stiftung [KSB Foundation].

Voith has been awarded the contracts for the supply of the electro-mechanical equipment of two small hydropower projects in Indonesia being an important success in the promising hydropower market of South East Asia.

On 11 November 2013, the Frankenthal-based pumps and valves manufacturer received the RWE Supplier Award in the category “Quality Global”. The award ceremony took place as part of the sixth RWE Supplier Conference at the congress centre in Essen with around 800 guests present.

KNF, manufacturer of diaphragm pumps and systems has successfully achieved the re-certification of its explosion-proof pumps series NF 1.100 EX, NF 1.300 EX, N 026, N 87, N 143, N 186, N 726 and N 0150 according to ATEX 94/9/EU directive.

More than 5,000 processing professionals from over 60 countries will be convening at the 55th biennial Chem Show in New York City, December 10-12, 2013, to see the latest product innovations being unveiled by nearly 300 exhibiting companies.

Suppliers of flow control and treatment products including those dealing with air, gases, water and other liquids are generating annual revenues of over $300 billion. Each region of the world is participating both in the manufacture and consumption of these products. In Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Market, McIlvaine Company analyzes the production, imports and exports in each region and country.

Baker Hughes Incorporated announced that the Company s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Peter A. Ragauss, intends to retire by the end of next year.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) and Pump Systems Matter (PSM) have announced the dates of the upcoming Variable Speed Drives 4-part webinar series. The opening session will be held January 9, 2014 at 1:00pm EST.

When a number of Mono pumps were switched off recently, it marked the end of a 20-year operation to preserve the remains of an historic Tudor warship, the Mary Rose. The progressing cavity pumps from Mono have been used to help spray the fragile timbers of the Mary Rose with a mixture of water and wax – a crucial stage in the preservation process which has now come to an end.