Oct 1, 2021
Pump sector celebrates at long-awaited return of awards night
Water/Wastewater News
Sep 21, 2021
Pumps
Leading Singapore technology partner InnovEng has agreed a new partnership with UK-based Riventa, whose testing and monitoring expertise is designed to maximise the reliability of assets such as turbines, blowers and pumps.
InnovEng, specialists in water and wastewater technologies, equipment and piping installation, , as well as electrical and instrumentation for the... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Sep 9, 2021
Pumps
Voith has acquired a majority share in the Croatian small hydro company Sintaksa.
The company specialises in products and services for electromechanical and automation systems.
The agreement took place in Zagreb, Croatia.
Sintaksa is a technology company with a strong focus on small hydro, providing products and services in the field of electromechanical and automation... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Aug 31, 2021
Pumps
A project using natural flood management techniques to protect homes against flooding, while improving water quality is nearing completion.
The project in Thornton, near Blackpool, UK, has brought together experts from United Utilities, the Wyre Rivers Trust, Wyre Council and McDermott Homes to deliver an innovative natural flood management project, which is creating... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Aug 24, 2021
Pumps
Pump and mixer manufacturer Landia is hosting an Open Day at its premises in Shropshire, UK, appealing to slurry and wastewater companies.
At the Open Day, Landia will give businesses a behind-the-scenes look at the pumping and mixing solutions it provides to the agricultural, biogas and wastewater sectors.
Companies offering solutions for tanks, controls, separators,... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Aug 16, 2021
Pumps
Anglian Water is investing £1.7 million (€1.9 million) in an essential project to future-proof the wastewater network in Hullbridge, UK.
Work on an essential sewer upgrade scheme in Hullbridge, in Essex, will begin on Monday 16 August.
The investment will see 2 km of new sewer pipes installed from the west of its pumping station on Ferry Road, under Kendall Park... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Aug 13, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Aug 6, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Aug 4, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Aug 3, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Aug 2, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Jul 28, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Jul 19, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Jul 19, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Jul 15, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Jul 14, 2021
Pumps
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]
Water/Wastewater News
Jul 8, 2021
Pumps
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]