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A UK filter and housings manufacturer has increased the capabilities of its welding fabrication shop as part of a major programme of investments designed to boost future growth.
Amazon Filters has invested £500,000 (€572,000) in the enhanced welding capability at its European production centre in Camberley, Surrey.
The spend includes automated welding equipment, heavy duty craneage and…
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With the news that Denmark is one of first European countries aiming to slowly put the Coronavirus lockdown into reverse, leading pump and mixer manufacturer Landia has won significant new orders from Asia.
The first order is to supply pumps for a new biogas project in Japan, while the second order is to provide submersible mixers for an industrial WWTP in Malaysia.
Landia had also won an order…
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Yorkshire Water is calling for contractors to bid for places on its £800m (€909m) clean water network repair and maintenance services contract.
The contract by the water company will be tendered in five lots. The initial contract term for lots 1 to 4 is four years, with a further four-year extension option. For lot 5, the term is three years, with a two-year extension option.
Lot 5 will be…
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Warren Controls, a leading manufacturer of control valves and speciality fluid handling products, announces its new ARIA Series electrically actuated, modulating, globe control valves.
The valves are ideally suited for challenging, modulating, industrial processes that require electric actuation with the actuation speed and reliability of pneumatics.
Warren Controls launched the ARIA as an…
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Severn Trent has revealed the trial of fibre optic cables inside its pipes as part of its efforts to cut down and reduce the number of leaks and bursts across its network.
The UK-based water company has installed 750m of fibre optic cable inside a live section of its network. This was done to test its ‘listening’ capabilities over a four-hour period, where the impacts of leaks were…
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The introduction of five Landia mixers has brought improvements to the biological and dewatering processes at a wastewater treatment plant in Pennsylvania.
Serving six municipalities in Northern Northumberland County, the new-look Milton Regional Sewer Authority (MRSA) wastewater treatment plant has been designed so it is powered by anaerobic treatment of wastewater from the nearby ConAgra…
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The KSB Group has announced it will present its new borehole pump at this year’s IFAT trade fair from 4 to 8 May.
The UPA S 200 submersible new pump series, has been designed for water supply, irrigation and groundwater management as well as pressure boosting applications.
With its optimised hydraulic design, the pump series achieves very high levels of efficiency.
The…
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The construction division of India’s Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has recently secured a number of orders, including for works on a water and effluent treatment plant.
The water infrastructure order was secured from a customer in the United Arab Emirate and includes the execution of a recycled water transmission pipeline project.
The scope of this contract include engineering,…
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Germany’s KSB Group has added a new submersible motor pump to its Amarex type series, suitable for applications including wastewater, sludge treatment and the transport of storm water.
The pump can handle wastewater containing long fibres, solid substances, fluids containing gas and sludge, service water and grey water. It is equipped with either free-flow impellers (F-max) or open two-vane…
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Lead contractor for the UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power project has enlisted the help of Sykes Pumps to provide varied pumping solutions across the site’s six water management zones (WMZ).
One of the first tasks for Sykes was to provide a solution to manage the large surges in flow caused by the tide during construction of the sea wall at the site, which is located on the coast of…
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Semtech, a leading supplier of semiconductors and advanced algorithms, has announced that Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider iioote will introduce new functionalities to its WebIoT platform and initially the SenseIoT solution for water leakage detection and prevention.
The solution uses Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine…
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German pump manufacturer KSB has announced its new Amarex KRT range of submersible motor pumps featuring jacket-cooled drives, which are designed to transport untreated wastewater in municipal and industrial wastewater management.
The new pump sets are available with drive ratings from 10 to 30kW and are suitable for vertical and horizontal dry installation. As the pump motors remain…
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Spanish infrastructure, energy and telecommunications group Elecnor has been awarded a contract to carry out one of the largest water transmission and supply projects to date in Oman.
The contract, which is worth €192 million, was awarded by the Public Authority for Water (Diam) in an international call for tender. Elecnor won the bid in a joint venture agreement with Omani company…
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Northern Ireland Water (NI Water) has completed a £1.6 million (€1.9 million) upgrade of the Ballinagard Water Pumping Station, as part of the utility’s Water Pumping Station Improvement Programme.
Pumps and control panels at the station were upgraded to provide greater robustness and efficiency to enable water to be pumped to the local Croppy Hill Reservoir, near Londonderry in Northern…
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A new digital tool developed by BHR Group is being used by water utilities to analyse their sludge pumping systems and reduce costs.
The software, known as SLOT 2.0, is able to calculate sludge flow properties and behaviours, as well as frictional pipe pressure losses and system curves. It can also identify the most effective pumps to use on any system, selecting the optimal size, type,…
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KSB Group has dispatched a boiler feed pump with reportedly the largest drive rating in the world, to be used in a coal-fired power plant currently under construction in Huaibei, China.
The supercritical power station Pingshan II is using a new technology that is expected to reach an efficiency of almost 50% at a unit output of 1,350MW.
The developers designed the CHTD 11 boiler feed pump…
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Cheshire, UK-nased Chemical Support Systems (CCS), which designs, manufactures, installs and commissions chemical dosing systems, has selected Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology’s (WMFTG) Qdos pumps for polymer dosing in wastewater treatment applications.
According to the company, this usage is expected to increase, as more effort is made to reduce the presence of phosphorus wastewater, which…
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Water technology company Xylem has expanded its pump portfolio to include industrial-strength product lines capable of handling critical industrial challenges.
The new large capacity vertical turbine, multistage ring section and double suction centrifugal pumps solve water and fluid management intensive applications, according to a statement from the company.
The new pumps – the e-MP…
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