LANDIVISIAU, France - Siemens will build a new combined cycle power plant as a turnkey project in Landivisiau in western France. The company will also operate and maintain the plant for 20 years. With an installed capacity of 446 megawatts, the power plant will help to reliably cover Brittany’s growing demand for electricity. The order volume is approximately 450 million pounds.
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The Fluid Sealing Association (FSA)’s technical director, Henri Azibert, has retired after leading a long career serving the fluid sealing industry.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The first W12 Congress, sponsored by DuPont Water Solutions, will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2020. The conference, organised by international water charity SOS NPO, will take place from January 27-31, and bring together 1,500 water industry experts and key government and business figures to discuss the challenges facing major cities across the world that are at risk for a “Day Zero” scenario, where water resources are depleted and taps run dry.
HOUSTON – Henderson, a specialist in the sales and service of drilling rigs and capital drilling equipment, has named Chris Naquin as senior business development manager.
His job responsibilities will include building and maintaining relationships with drilling contractors to service their fabrication, rig build and refurbishment needs.
SAO PAOLO - ABB will provide Brazil’s electric power transmission company, Argo Energia, a complete suite of asset management software solutions to improve the efficiency and stability of their new power transmission network in Brazil. Globally, this is the first such integrated system to be deployed in a power transmission network.
KARLSTAD, Sweden - International technology Group Andritz has acquired the Swedish company Kempulp, a specialist provider of process technologies for the chemical pulping industry.
The company designs and markets technologies used in chemical pulping, including pulp washing, oxygen delignification and bleaching technologies.
ATLANTA - Genuine Parts Company announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary EIS, Inc. (EIS), the Electrical Specialties Group of Motion Industries, to Audax Private Equity (Audax). GPC intends to use the net cash proceeds from the transaction in accordance with its disciplined capital allocation strategy.
West Palm Beach, Fla. – Holland Pump, an independent specialty pump rental and dewatering solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Keno Cox as its chief financial officer (CFO).
TEMECULA, Calif. – Industrial automation and industrial internet of things (IIoT) manufacturer Opto 22 today named Josh Eastburn as director of technical marketing. In this position, Eastburn will lead the creation of useful and engaging customer content, discover and highlight Opto 22 customer applications, and work closely with industrial automation media outlets.
ENON, Ohio - Bill Martiniere has accepted the new position of SEEPEX chemical market manager. In this new position, Martiniere will be responsible for all chemical pump sales related activities. He has more than 35 years of industrial experience with heavy emphasis in chemical applications along with extensive knowledge of progressive cavity pumps in chemical metering applications.