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HOUSTON – DXP Enterprises, Inc. has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Hennesy Mechanical Sales LLC. DXP funded the acquisitions with cash on the balance sheet.

Hennesy is a manufacturers representative in the municipal water and wastewater treatment market and provides industrial pump sales, service and repair in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, as well as West Texas.

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. – Rusco and Vu-Flow are excited to announce Neal White as their newly appointed president and chief executive officer (CEO).

White's appointment brings extensive water quality experience along with expertise in plumbing, water systems and water quality markets, as well as a long history of consistently delivering exceptional results.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Franklin Electric Co., Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Headwater Companies, LLC acquired substantially all of the assets of LCA Pump, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company, which operates Water Works Pump. Water Works is a professional groundwater distributor located in Springfield, MO, and will operate as a branch of Headwater Wholesale, LLC, a subsidiary of Headwater Companies.

 

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Applied Flow Technology Corporation (AFT) has been acquired by Datacor, Inc of Florham Park, New Jersey, USA. The acquisition occurred in August 2023. It is a mutually beneficial decision and both companies are eager to enhance the engineering solutions AFT develops to help engineers around the world design safer, more efficient and more reliable piping systems.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – The Water Research Foundation (WRF) is providing $125,000 in funding to Brown and Caldwell to develop scalable diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) best practices for water sector organizations.

DE&I is a critical and growing need in the water sector as utilities measure the health and well-being of their organizations and workforce while rethinking how they engage with their communities.