After three years as Chairman of the German Eastern Business Association, Oliver Hermes, President and CEO of the Wilo Group, is stepping down from his honorary post effective 1 June 2022.
Greene Tweed announced that it has been recognized as a winner in the 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Awards for its outstanding achievement in digital transformation of its facilities into smart factories, specifically through internal video media for employee education.
Global water technology company, Xylem, has announced Limited Partner (LP) investments in venture capital funds Burnt Island Ventures and The Westly Group’s Funds III and IV, supporting the development of innovative water and industrial technologies. The combined $20 million investment across both funds forms a key part of Xylem’s external innovation program, Xylem Innovation Labs. These investments bolster Xylem Innovation Labs’ open innovation network and its commitment to bringing the most important water technology innovations to market at speed and scale.
GEA and its employees have donated EUR 250,000 to the German Red Cross for the victims of the war in Ukraine. As part of a global fundraising campaign, GEA staff members from 42 countries collected EUR 125,000. The company then matched their contribution.
Edwards introduces EJGO, a next-generation vacuum pump controller with cloud connectivity and control for industrial vacuum pumps and systems. EJGO intelligently manages, commands, directs, and regulates the operation of Edwards vacuum pumps and offers flexible accessibility and outstanding control functionality.
Multinational technology group Wilo ends the fiscal year 2021 with sales of nearly 1.7 billion euros.
The Wilo Group is donating more than 60 mobile water treatment systems to Ukraine. Each of these systems, called PAUL (portable aqua unit for lifesaving), can filter around 1,200 litres of water per day and therefore supply at least 400 people in crisis areas with fresh drinking water. Thus, the water-backpacks help to maintain vital basic supplies in severely stricken communities.
Drain valves comprise up to 20% of all valves in a typical processing plant. But cleaning them is costly, difficult, and time-consuming due to long cleaning cycles and the risk of pressure shocks. The new Alfa Laval ThinkTop pulse seat clean addresses all these issues, quickly and effectively making drain valves spotless while delivering savings of up to 95% in Cleaning-in-Place (CIP) liquid.
Through a radical two-year experiment living inside a mini-Earth, ecologist Dr Mark Nelson developed a deep understanding of humans’ connection with the planetary biosphere and their impacts on the water cycle.
Energy turnaround at the Liebenwalde wastewater treatment plant thanks to innovative blower technology.
