Machine-to-machine communication will be the catalyst to robust growth of sensors and related electronics to measure the status of air, water, combustion gases and other gases and liquids used in fossil, nuclear and renewable energy power generation.
In February 2017, the international trade fair IFAT Eurasia will make the Turkish commercial capital Istanbul the hot spot of the Eurasian environmental technology industry.
Between 1990 and 2014 the level of environmentally harmful greenhouse gases in Turkey rose rapidly, to 468 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. That is an increase of 125 percent, as is evident from the latest figures from the Turkish Statistical Office TÜIK and from Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI).
Andritz Hydro has received an order from Verbund, the leading Austrian electrical energy supplier and one of the biggest hydropower generation companies in Europe, to modernize the Ybbs-Persenbeug run-of-river power plant (total capacity: 236 megawatts), which went into operation in 1959.
Gardner Denver, Inc. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, “KKR”) today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion, including the assumption of debt.
Pentair, Inc. and Tyco International Ltd. announced a definitive agreement to combine Tyco’s Flow Control business (“Tyco Flow”) with Pentair in a tax-free, all-stock merger.
The market for ultrapure water equipment, services, labor and consumables will grow 32 percent to nearly $4.9 billion by 2015.
thinXXS Microtechnology AG, Zweibrücken, Gemany, announced a change of name and legal status as of December 19, 2005. The former limited liability company has now become a stock company.
Nissho Iwai American Corp. (NIAC) was awarded a contract by the State of California, Department of Water Resources (DWR) to furnish and install four vertical centrifugal pumps for the Edmonston Pumping Plant. The pumps will be designed and built by Hitachi, Ltd. of Japan. The contract, valued at approximately $30,000,000, is expected to run for 8 years.
On 1 May 2002, the Grundfos group took over the activities of the Swiss company Arnold AG, specialists in submersible mixers, flowmakers and recirculation pumps, which is based in Schachen in the canton of Lucerne, 70 km from Zurich.
