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NWPX Park is highlighting its PumpTrooper® Lift Stations, an advanced and comprehensive solution for wastewater and stormwater conveyance across diverse industries.
Delivered as a fully integrated and automated system, PumpTrooper® Lift Stations offer dependable fluid transfer, easy installation and versatile applications.
Each system is custom designed by NWPX Park’s world-class, highly…
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Menzel Elektromotoren has manufactured a pump motor for the Red Cross in Syria.
The vertical motor will help stabilise the water supply in communities destroyed in the civil war. The pump station operator required a straightforward drop-in replacement for an old V1-type motor, matching the existing mechanical interfaces without any constructional changes.
This called for various complex…
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Water solutions company Solenis has opened a new global research centre near its headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.
The 100,000-square-foot facility features advanced laboratories, collaborative workspaces and pilot-scale testing capabilities to accelerate product development and customer support for sustainability-focused products and technologies.
It will serve as the flagship hub in…
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bNovate’s BactoSense analysers are giving scientists live insight into Mount Fuji’s vast volcanic aquifer, helping secure safe drinking water and industrial supply in one of Japan’s most seismic regions.
Annually, 2.2 billion tons of rain and snowfall seep through the multi-layered lava gaps of this emblematic stratovolcano to become clean springs and well water.
A team led by Prof Dr…
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NWPX Park’s MeterVault® water meters and BackFlo® backflow prevention product lines provide accurate, real-time consumption data with automated leak alerts and certified, hydrostatically tested backflow protection in turnkey assemblies.
The MeterVault® water meters monitor usage in real time to ensure accurate billing and optimised resource management for end users.
Automated leak…
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Veolia has built one of the largest PFAS treatment systems in the United States and the largest of its kind in the north-east at a time when water is more vital than ever for public health and environmental protection.
The Stanton Water Treatment Plant will remove regulated PFAS compounds from drinking water and ensure high-quality drinking water for over 100,000 residents, fully meeting the US…
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For sludge tank mixing applications in the north of England, a total of three Landia Chopper Pumps have now replaced units that were causing irritating operational and financial issues for a water company.
Frustrated not only by a broken seal, but the prohibitive cost and time delay to replace it, the water company first switched one sludge tank’s pumping and mixing duties to a Landia Chopper…
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When Cranswick Country Foods Fresh Poultry was looking for a new centrifuge to increase capacity and processing efficiency at a wastewater treatment plant at their Yaxley production plant, they turned to the Hiller model DP45-422VAHYAC centrifuge from MSE Hiller.
Cranswick’s old centrifuge system had become mechanically unreliable, difficult to maintain and was no longer able to keep up with…
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In a TV show that will explain the complex journey of the wastewater treatment process, Lakeside Equipment Corporation is set to feature in Public Television’s All Access with Andy Garcia.
Lakeside was approached to be part of this popular educational program that takes the audience behind the scenes to show the workings and necessity of wastewater treatment, exploring the question: “Where…
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Argent Energy’s programme of sustainable waste management has taken a step forward with the successful commissioning of its second Wastewater Membrane BioReactor (MBR).
This milestone ensures that all of the company’s production sites are now equipped with fully operational MBR systems, with each plant now recycling all process water.
The new MBR is located at the company’s Amsterdam site…
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Residents in Mexico City and Monterrey will soon enjoy more reliable water supply as the two cities launch groundbreaking infrastructure upgrades to save over 1.3 billion litres of water a year – easing pressure from the rapid urbanization and persistent drought conditions that have strained local water systems.
The two cities are working in partnership with global water technology company…
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A £24.5 million (€28 million) investment project to create a vast new underground storm water storage tank is set to get underway in Blackburn in the UK.
The tank will be 30 metres deep and 30 metres wide and capable of holding 12.5 million litres of storm water.
The new tank will be connected by an underground shaft to an existing tank in the same area which was constructed in 2012.
Recent…
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Southern Water has awarded a £15.8 million (€18.6m) contract to Kier Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks to deliver major upgrades at two key wastewater treatment works in the South East of the UK.
The investment will focus on Portswood Wastewater Treatment Works in Southampton and Thornham Wastewater Treatment Works, located just over the border in West Sussex. Both projects aim to…
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A fatberg the size of a blue whale has been successfully removed from a major trunk sewer in Oxford in the UK, following a complex two-week operation by Thames Water.
Weighing in at 120 tonnes and stretching more than a kilometre underground, the congealed mass of fat, oil, grease and wet wipes was lodged 20 metres below ground, posing significant challenges to the teams involved.
The clearance…
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A wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Southern California needed to replace a diaphragm metering pump that injects ferrous chlorate into a transfer line that feeds municipal sludge to the plant’s digesters.
Its existing pump was not able to overcome the line pressure to inject the proper amount of ferrous chlorate required for the process. The new pump selected easily handles the application.…
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United Utilities has reached the momentous halfway point in its Vyrnwy Aqueduct Modernisation Programme (VAMP), upgrading 139 km of pipes that serve water to a million customers across Cheshire and Merseyside.
The Vyrnwy Aqueduct consists of three parallel pipes that run from Lake Vyrnwy through to Merseyside, and account for an impressive 12% of our raw water through the North West.
The…
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A major NHS hospital in the Midlands has cut its annual operational costs by £750,000 after replacing its outdated sewage pumping system with a new high-efficiency setup designed and installed by pump specialists Dura Pump.
The hospital had long struggled with frequent blockages caused by fats, oils, greases, and debris - leading to costly downtime and reliance on tankers to remove waste.
The…
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United Utilities is set to invest £215 million (€248 million) improving water quality around Tameside over the next five years.
The company is set to upgrade three of its treatment works and reduce the number of times that up to 20 storm overflows in the area operate, with the first project set to start later this year.
At Dukinfield Wastewater treatment works, new technology will be…
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