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Wilden announced that its groundable Advanced and Original X Series Metal and Plastic air-operated double-diaphragm pumps comply with the ATEX 95 directive for explosive atmospheres.

Hayward Tyler Fluid Handling, a division of the Hayward Tyler Group, is celebrating 50 years of business in August this year. This is an important milestone for the company who today specialise in the design and manufacture of canned motor pumps.

Baker Hughes Incorporated and BJ Services Company announced that their Boards of Directors have approved a definitive merger agreement, which represents a transaction value of $5.5 billion for BJ Services based on closing stock prices on August 28, 2009.

KMT Waterjet Systems Inc., the leading global manufacturer of high pressure pumps and components for waterjet systems, introduces the Next Generation of waterjet cutting pumps, an ultra high pressure (UHP) 90,000 PSI/6.200 bar pump.

It’s a fact of life in natural-gas production: at both the wellhead and tank batteries, some quantity of recovered product will either escape, be vented or flared off into the atmosphere.

If you are working with a locally installed version of the PumpSelector (on your computer) then it is time to do an update on your version.

In the first half of 2009, Sulzer’s sales remained stable at a high level due to a strong order backlog. Return on sales before restructuring expenses reached 14.5% and return on sales including those expenses was 12.4%. The net income remained stable, cash flow improved and net liquidity was further strengthened.

Moyno, Inc., a leading American manufacturer of Moyno progressing cavity pumps, now offers the Moyno Metering Pump with new pumping elements and new, integral VFD/Motor Controls. These new features will help expand the scope of metering applications and enhance economical and efficient performance when metering low-flow liquids in a wide range of processing applications including dosing, sampling and metering.

“In the first half-year 2009, we have made significant progress in shaping the new CHRIST. In a really adverse economic climate, we have advanced the organisational and financial reorganisation of the Group refocusing our exciting water technology capabilities in our Ultrapure Water and Municipal Water divisions while reinstating our financial health with sale of the Pharma business,” says Malek Salamor, CEO of the Christ Water Technology Group about the events so far in 2009.

Wilden, the worldwide leader in air-operated double-diaphragm pump technology and an operating company within Dover Corporation’s Pump Solutions Group (PSG), announced that its PX20 Original Metal air-operated double-diaphragm pumps feature operating capabilities that make them ideal for pumping materials that contain larger solid particles.