ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Eighteen municipalities received recognition for excellence in innovation and program management in the 2020 National Municipal Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Awards. These awards celebrate administrators of municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) that perform beyond regulatory requirements.
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WASHINGTON, DC - The Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA) announces its 2020 Person of the Year and Service Award winners at its Annual Meeting.
Mark Nahorski, President of IMI PBM, was recognized with VMA’s most prestigious honor, Person of the Year, and Stephen Szpak, Director Sales & Marketing for Trillium Flow Technologies, was recognized with the Service Award.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Atlas Copco has appointed Peter Kinnart as senior vice president, chief financial officer and member of Atlas Copco’s group management. Kinnart will assume his new role in July 2021
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Water Environment Federation (WEF) announced students from the University of Guelph and the Colorado School of Mines as winners of the 2020 Student Design Competition. The 19th annual competition, sponsored by GHD, showcased the innovative ideas of 27 teams from 22 WEF member associations and five countries.
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Caterpillar Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire the Oil & Gas Division ("Weir Oil & Gas") of the Weir Group PLC, a Scotland-based global engineering business. Headquartered near Fort Worth, Texas, Weir Oil & Gas produces a full line of pumps, flow iron, consumable parts, wellhead and pressure control products that are serviced via an extensive global network of service centers located near customer operations.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Rockwell Automation, Inc., announced that it has acquired Oylo, a privately-held industrial cybersecurity services provider based in Barcelona, Spain. Oylo is dedicated to providing a broad range of industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity services and solutions including assessments, turnkey implementations, managed services and incident response.
HOUSTON, Texas. - Quality Companies, the global offshore and onshore construction, fabrication and electrical and instrumentation company, has appointed Iain Gault as business development manager of the Houston and international branches.
Based in Houston, Gault will serve to grow the Quality Companies client base in the Deepwater and international arenas and introduce an expanded range of Quality Companies services to the energy sector.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - After much thought and consideration, the leadership team of the TEES Turbomachinery Laboratory has decided to transition the face-to-face Asia Turbomachinery & Pump Symposium event to a virtual setting.
All short courses and technical sessions, as well as the exhibition, will be held online. The symposium dates will continue to be Feb. 23-25, with short courses on Feb. 22, 2021.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Hydraulic Institute (HI) announced the launch of its Pump Savings Calculator to assist specifiers and end users in determining the most energy and cost-efficient pump systems for their applications.