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Pump expert Sulzer has entered into exclusive discussions with Moret Industries to acquire the pump manufacturer Ensival Moret (EM) at a proposed price of €80 million.
EM, whose main manufacturing facilities are based in Saint Quentin, France, and Thimister, Belgium, achieved sales of €115 million in 2015 and has currently about 730 employees.
The company also operates manufacturing…
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Valves
Velan France, a subsidiary of Canadian valve manufacturer Velan, has been awarded contracts to supply nuclear-class valves to China Nuclear Power Engineering Corp. (CNPEC), China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. (CNPE), China Nuclear Energy Industry Corp. (CNEIC), and State Nuclear Power Engineering Corp.(SNPEC).
These nuclear valve orders represent a sales value of about $36 million (€33…
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Veolia, through its subsidiary Veolia Water Technologies, has been chosen by contractor Tecnicas Reunidas to engineer and procure a wastewater treatment plant in Saudi Arabia.
The plant will be located at the Jazan Refinery and Terminal, a new refinery and terminal in the Kingdom’s southwest wholly-owned and operated by Saudi Aramco, with an expected capacity to process 400,000bpd of…
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Pumps
Global Pumps, a major Australian supplier of industrial pumps, has extended its peristaltic pump range with the addition of the new Verderflex Vantage 5000.
Recommended for dosing chemicals in water treatment applications, the new Verderflex peristaltic pumps can provide flow rates up to 6,600ml/min and maximum pressure of 7 bar.
With a flow rate exceeding most brands in the market,…
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Valves
Valve maker Rotork has fitted and delivered its IQ3 intelligent electric actuators to fifteen gate valves at a Canadian oil sands mine project.
In a recent contract, Rotork’s facility at Calgary fitted the actuators to gate valves sized 42", 48" and 60" and shipped them to the Suncor Fort Hills project in the Athabasca region of Alberta.
The contract is one of many for Suncor Fort Hills…
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Pumps
T-T’s range of heavy duty chopper pumps has been designed to tackle the tough industrial processes.
The ETO, ETV, and PTS ranges of heavy duty chopper pumps have a double chopping system to ensure chopping of solids prior to pumping, which enables high efficiency due to the anti-clogging action.
The first chopping system consists of two chrome steel blades secured on the body inlet, acting…
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Pumps
DAB Water Technology, an Italian expert in the global water management industry, eyes at least 50% growth in the Middle East market in the next few years.
DAB officials said it will target the exponential infrastructure development activities underway in this market, where there is a huge requirement for sustainable water pumping, submersible motoring, and other water management technology…
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Canadian city of West Kelowna is planning to construct a new C$53.5 million (€37.5m) water treatment plant to supply half of the city’s population of 31,000.
Officials of the British Columbian city have submitted an application for provincial and federal governments to cover 83% of the costs through the Clean Water and Wastewater Fund.
The plant, on which construction work is planned…
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Flowmeters
Chemoil Middle East DMCC has fitted its time-chartered and owned barges in Fujairah with E&H mass flowmeter (MFM) systems that have passed the TR48 acceptance test.
Chemoil worked closely with Lloyd's Register (LR), together with the National Metrology Centre (NMC) of Singapore, A*Star, and bunker consultancy Metcore International to certify the barge systems to Singapore MPA’s…
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Alpha Process Controls (APC) has secured a contract to supply GNL Quintero regasification terminal in Chile with its LNG hose transfer system with innovative emergency release collar (ERC) breakaway couplings.
The UK-based division of the GT Group will deliver the complete ERC systems, consisting of liquid and vapour lines, which will be employed for emergency ship-to-shore transfer of liquid…
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The city of Greater Sudbury in Canada is facing a massive bill to renovate and upgrade its water network within the next 15 years.
According to a recent testimony delivered to the City Council, the cost of the works could rise to anywhere from C$76 million to C$435 million (€52.4m to €304.3m), the Sudbury Star reports.
The cheaper option would include keeping the city’s current…
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Hungarian bioethanol producer Pannonia Ethanol has successfully completed a €135 million credit facility agreement with a consortium of Hungarian banks.
The facility will support expansion at the company’s Dunaföldvár, Hungary, biorefinery, investment in new projects, cost reduction, additional jobs, and increases in both corn buying and animal feed output.
“The plant…
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Pumps
Growing urbanisation and industrialisation in the developing countries and increasing use of water pumps in industries is driving the demand for water pumps globally.
A new market study by Persistence Market Research names four segments driving growth in the water pump marketplace, namely industrial, municipal, agricultural, and domestic water pumps.
Based on technology, the two categories…
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The famous Orange County in California is set to get a new multi-million dollar water treatment plant in a bid to create another water source for the arid region.
Five water districts around the area have joined together to fund and build the $107 million (€100m) Baker Water Treatment Plant, which is expected to begin operation in January.
The plant is estimated to provide 28.1 million…
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IMI Sensors, a manufacturer of industrial vibration and pressure monitoring instrumentation, has released models 176A03 and 176A05 pressure sensors for extreme environments.
The 176A03 and 176A05 are very high/extreme temperature differential charge pressure sensors with a UHT-12 sensing element.
IMI has developed the sensors to be used in the combustion instability monitoring of power generation…
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Flowmeters
Arjay Engineering has discontinued its 4100-OCF open channel flow monitor, and replaced it with the new 4100-PRO monitor.
The 4100-PRO is a multi-oil/water interface profiler monitor and uses multiple sensing probes to measure the capacitance field at distinct points within the tank.
The resulting profile can be used to track the vertical location of an interface/rag layer and the emulsion…
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SPX Cooling Technologies, designer and manufacturer of evaporative and air-cooled heat exchangers, has released the new Marley LW, an induced-draft counterflow closed-circuit fluid cooler.
The new fluid cooler design incorporates patent-pending heat transfer technology, a lower height to address local code restrictions, and other installation and maintenance advantages.
The Marley LW is a…
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Valves
German valve maker Gemü has equipped its valves with integrated RFID chips to enable continuous electronic traceability and direct maintenance support in response to industry’s growing needs for documentation.
The system, referred to as Gemü Conexo, comprises valves with an integrated RFID chip (in the body, diaphragm, and actuator), an electronic reading device, the Conexo pen,…
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