Milwaukee, Wis. – The Water Council announced the first round of the Tech Challenge, a new, international competition designed to identify cutting-edge freshwater technologies and ideas with high potential for commercialization or implementation.
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HOUSTON – Wild Well Control, a Superior Energy Services company, has named Bryan Ellis as president.
Ellis, who has been with Wild Well since 2008, succeeds Freddy Gebhardt as president effective immediately. Most recently, Ellis served as a chief administrative officer overseeing all financial and administrative operations.
OAKBROOK, Ill. - James Holzapfel, P.E., joins the midwest office of planning, engineering and program management firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) as a senior project manager. In this role, Holzapfel will manage the firm’s municipal infrastructure projects in the Midwest region.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – With 20,740 registrants, the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) 91st annual technical exhibition and conference drew the most registrants ever for New Orleans and lived up to its billing as the world’s largest annual water quality event.
WEFTEC 2018 also featured 1,019 exhibitors using 299,850 net square feet of space to showcase the latest developments, technologies and services for the water sector.
FORT WORTH, Texas - Weir Oil & Gas announced the hiring of David Paterson as president of pressure pumping. Based in Fort Worth, Paterson will lead Weir’s Oil & Gas pressure pumping business as the company continues to be the leader in the well service pump market.
IRVINE, Calif., – ITT Inc.'s BIW Connector Systems brand has unveiled a new $1.5 million high pressure, high-temperature chamber for qualification testing of new electrical penetrator systems used in oil and gas wells.
Birmingham, Ala.—Motion Industries, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, has hired Hal Midkiff as product sales manager, process pumps and equipment.
CLACKAMAS, Ore. – Cornell Pump announced Nick Ivers has joined the company as the Southwest Agricultural regional manager, with responsibilities for irrigation, farm dewatering and manure in California, the desert Southwest and the Mountain West.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Induron Protective Coatings announced that Tom Wunderlin has joined the company as sales manager of the Mid-Atlantic region. Wunderlin will manage the service and sales team in the Maryland and Virginia markets.
HOUSTON – Sulzer has signed an agreement with Nidec Industrial Solutions that will introduce customers to the high performance, energy efficient drives with class-leading maintenance services. Sulzer’s extensive network of service centers throughout North America will provide expert, local support from one of the world’s leading independent repair specialists of electromechanical equipment.