NETZSCH will build a new €50 million facility in Waldkraiburg, Germany. A new production unit will be built in Geretsrieder Straße, integrating the assembly hall and offices from the current plant in Liebigstraße. The company said this was part of its global operations strategy, where the Pumps and Systems Business Unit will bring its production and assembly operations... [Read More]

The British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) – the organisation which represents the business interests of UK and Irish suppliers of liquid pumps and related equipment - has reached the milestone of 100 member companies. The most recent company to join is Surrey-based, repair, service, and supply specialist, PumpServ. Formerly known as London Pumps, the business... [Read More]

ESD, a joint venture involving Galliford Try, MWH Treatment and Black & Veatch, has completed the successful upgrade of its mixing operation at Scottish Water’s wastewater treatment plant in St Andrews. Following an intricate diving operation in 6m-deep zero-visibility wastewater, three divers and a dive manager ensured there was no interruption to the crucial aeration... [Read More]

Thames Water has brought in optimisation experts Riventa to test the performance of 90 aeration system blowers across 10 of its sewage treatment works (STW). This is part of the water company’s commitment to continually improve its energy performance. From Beckton, the largest STW in Europe, where 26 blowers will undergo extensive monitoring, to the Blackbirds STW,... [Read More]

The Uniglide-e range is the latest generation of axially split, double entry pumps from Celeros Flow Technology. The pumps, according to Celeros, offer significant advances in the areas of energy saving, reliability and ease of maintenance. Part of the ClydeUnion Pumps (CUP) Glides range, Uniglide-e split pumps have a capacity of up to 4,000 m3/hr (17,600 USgpm), a... [Read More]

County Durham in the UK is set to benefit from a £10.6 million (€11.8 million) investment by Northumbrian Water at three of its treatment works sites, which will improve water quality in the area. The company is investing £8 million (€8.9 million) in a project that will see the treatment works at Pittington replaced with a pumping station that will transfer the... [Read More]

Bedford Pumps has successfully completed the commissioning of two of their fish friendly pump sets in British Columbia, Canada. Pitt Polder pump system is located within Pitt Meadows, which lies at the confluence of the Fraser and Pitt Rivers. Approximately 86% of the city is located within a flood plain and the city relies on a continuous dyke system, comprising of... [Read More]

AW Chesterton has opened a new European mechanical seals manufacturing hub at its German operations near Munich. The fully functional service centre in Ismaning will offer its customers and partners improved services as well as enhance its business development plans in the region. Local engineering, inventory and manufacturing will improve the company’s reaction time... [Read More]

HRS Exchangers recently supplied a G Series gas cooling heat exchanger to a food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operated by one of the UK’s leading waste management companies. The AD plant transforms 45,000 tonnes of food waste from domestic and commercial sources into renewable electricity and high value digestate biofertiliser. From the beginning the plant... [Read More]

A new water treatment plant in the south of the UK is now operational – serving 250,000 people in the area. South West Water’s Mayflower Water Treatment Works at Roborough, just north of Plymouth, uses cutting-edge treatment processes to be more sustainable than a traditional water treatment works. The plant takes over from the old treatment works at Crownhill in... [Read More]

Grundfos, a water technology company, and its primary owner the Grundfos Foundation have announced a $65,000 (€55,000) donation to the American Red Cross following the recent wildfire. The donation to the Central California - Central Valley Chapter is in response to the recent blaze that continues to have a devastating impact on communities in central California. “Our... [Read More]

The use of cartridge filters to remove manganese from the municipal water supply was the focus of a presentation at the Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Innovation Event on 29 October. David Ridealgh, marketing manager at filter manufacturer Amazon Filters, discussed the benefits of substituting cartridge filtration for traditional sand beds to remove the mineral. The presentation... [Read More]

United Utilities has been testing and replacing some equipment at one of its biggest water treatment works in the UK. The work is being carried out at the Huntington water treatment works in Cheshire where the water company was busy replacing old pumps and motors while keeping the site running and the taps flowing for its customers in the north-west. The pumps were... [Read More]

Wilden, a worldwide producer of speciality pumps, is celebrating its 65-year anniversary. Wilden was founded in 1955 by Jim Wilden in the US when he revolutionised the pumping industry by inventing the air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pump. Since that time, Wilden has been recognised as one of the leaders in AODD pump technology for a wide range of applications in... [Read More]

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has won the Community Initiative Award at the 2020 Aquaculture Awards for its work with the Outer Hebrides Local Energy Hub (OHLEH) project on the Isle of Lewis - the first local circular economy of its kind in Scotland. The success of the project, which sees fish waste (transferred from SSC’s processing plant) co-digested with household... [Read More]

BBA Pumps has supplied flood relief pumps to Djibouti after a tender was put out by the United Nations. The African country has suffered from heavy rainfall and floods in recent years. BBA Pumps, partnering with the South African-based African Generator Company, successfully responded to the tender issued in February. The tender required the supply of mobile emergency... [Read More]