BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – To further expand its service network in the United States of America the KSB Group has bought the U.S. company DUBRIC Industries Inc. The company was founded in 1974 in Comstock Park, Michigan, about halfway between Detroit and Chicago. It is specialized in servicing and selling pumps, other rotating equipment and the corresponding spare parts. The new company operates under the name of KSB Dubric Inc.

More than 30 industry leaders answered key questions about the pump marketplace in 2017. The Pumps & Systems editorial team selected excerpts from their responses to help you prepare for the new year.

MUNICH, Germany (June 2, 2016)—Team KSB-USA was awarded the gold medal in Munich, Germany, as the overall winner of the third Open German Championship in Wastewater Technology as part of IFAT 2016. The all-star Operations Challenge team competed against 36 teams from six countries as part of the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management, which runs from May 30 to June 3.

Industry leaders voiced their thoughts about 2016—what is important, what trends we should watch for, what is new in the market. Here are some of those remarks, as selected by our editorial team.

PORT ARTHUR, Texas (Nov. 10, 2015) – Standard Alloys Inc., a KSB company, has expanded its pump engineering facilities with the opening of a new 15,000-square-foot workshop in Deer Park, Texas. The new plant is strategically located near the Houston ship channel to add further capacity to Standard Alloys already established repair centers located in Vidor and Port Arthur, Texas and Port Allen, Louisiana.

(16 October 2015)—KSB Pumps Ltd. India won an order for the supply of six boiler feed pumps to be installed in the new fossil-fueled power station located in Tanda in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. India’s national power utility is currently building two new power plant units there, each with a capacity of 600 megawatts (MW). The pumps are designed for a pressure of 500 bar. An electric motor and a turbine with power ratings of 11 MW and 17 MW respectively will serve to drive the pumps.