Thames Water in the UK has completely refurbished two slow sand filter beds at Hampton water treatment works – one of the biggest in Europe. The water firm has fully rebuilt the porous floor and outer walls to help protect supplies for future generations, with the site the size of 100 football pitches producing a third of London’s water. Hampton, built in the 1850s,... [Read More]

Atlas Copco has acquired CPC Pumps International Inc. The Sweden-based company specialises in the design, manufacturing, and servicing of custom-engineered, mission-critical centrifugal pumps. CPC Pumps has 110 employees and is based in Burlington in Ontario, Canada, with North America as their main market. “CPC Pumps is a very good fit because both its technology... [Read More]

KSB is donating domestic water supply systems and grey water pumps worth €50,000 to flooded areas in Germany. In an effort to help those people hit by recent flooding in Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria the firm is providing 100 Multi Eco-Pro systems for domestic drinking water supplies. In addition, the Frankenthal branch of the Germany’s... [Read More]

The British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) has continued to expand its numbers with another three companies signing up. Devon-based Rauschert, an independent pioneer of innovative industrial solutions in the technical ceramics and plastics market for more than 120 years, has recently joined. For the pump industry, Rauschert offers a large standard range as well... [Read More]

Tsurumi Pumps are being used in a canoe slalom event at the Tokyo Olympic Games. There are 15 submersible pumps being used to pump the water and create turbulence for the event. A total of three of the pumps have 150kW motors and pump 4,000 litres per second! As a comparison, the company’s two-inch submersible pump model LB480 pumps less than 0.5 litres per second.... [Read More]

Next Filtration Technologies, who produce water treatment products Scale Stop and FOG STOP, have agreed a new partnership with the Argonide Corporation to provide a new microbiological removal system. In conjunction with Next’s Scale Stop Template Assisted Crystallisation (TAC) water treatment units, Argonide’s long-recognised advanced filtration technology will provide... [Read More]

A team from Oil Dynamics recently finished a substantial water installation in a wide mountainous area in the Eastern Mediterranean. The German company supplied a turn-key electric submersible pumping system (ESPS) including the electrical variable speed drive, control system, wellhead and production tubing. The ESPS is producing water from more than 1,500 meter below... [Read More]

A water company fined a record £90 million (€104 million) for deliberately dumping raw sewage into the sea has come under fire again for its environmental performance. Southern Water has been ranked one of England's worst water companies for pollution incidents last year, according to Environment Agency data. It comes days after the firm was fined after admitting... [Read More]

Offering unparalleled volumetric efficiency for a rotary lobe pump, Borger has launched the new, BLUELine Nova range. Designed with a special, one-piece DIUS rotor, the BLUEline Nova (available in six sizes, with flow rates up to 110 m³/h) provides almost pulsation-free pumping at pressures up to 12 bar. This new high-tech Nova range can also be supplied without casing... [Read More]

Hydro-Québec has picked ANDRITZ as its major partner to re-equip its 14 turbine generator units at the Carillon generating station. Hydro-Québec has awarded the supply and installation of the first set of six 54-MW turbine-generator units at the facility on the Ottawa River, Canada, to ANDRITZ. The first phase encompasses complete re-equipping of six units with... [Read More]

Riventa, the energy-saving optimisation experts for assets such as blowers, turbines and pumps, has secured an important new strategic partnership in Egypt. Cairo-based Flowtech for Maintenance and Services, who provide key water technology and environmental solutions, will be introducing Riventa’s proprietary monitoring systems and software to its fast-growing customer... [Read More]

Contact Energy has selected Voith Hydro to upgrade its Roxburgh hydropower plant on the Clutha River in New Zealand. Contact is looking to increase its generation output using the same water flow by replacing four turbines with a more efficient and modern design. Under the contract, signed back in May, Voith Hydro will be responsible for engineering, scale model testing,... [Read More]

Morrison Water Services has been appointed by Scottish Water as a strategic contractor partner to support the delivery of one of Scotland’s biggest capital investment infrastructure programmes. The initial contract term for the Scottish Water ‘Delivery Vehicle 2’ (DV2) framework is six years and includes the option to extend by a further six years. The DV2 framework... [Read More]

The global technology leading specialist for progressive cavity pumps, pump systems and digital solutions has joined Ingersoll Rand in order to accelerate its growth. Ingersoll Rand is a global provider of mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions. With the acquisition of Seepex, Ingersoll Rand is pursuing a growth strategy within its precision and sciences... [Read More]

Xylem has unveiled Flygt Bibo – a new dewatering pump that reduces energy, wear and tear, and maintenance costs. The new pump is among the next generation of smart devices that brings built-in intelligence to industrial dewatering. Applying Decision Intelligence, Flygt Biboα automatically adapts to its environment and only operates when needed, delivering energy... [Read More]

Bedford Pumps has provided two of their fish friendly pumps to a chemical plant in Runcorn to aid in the chemical process. kINOVYN ChlorVinyls Ltd, part of INEOS, is Europe’s leading producer of vinyls and manufactures in eight countries across Europe. Their Runcorn site which focuses on the production of chlorine, caustic soda and chlorinated derivatives, produces... [Read More]