ATLANTA - Mobile, on-demand water treatment solutions are valuable options for industries needing high-quality water in an emergency or for a scheduled outage. To better serve its customers in the Southeastern United States, SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions is opening a new mobile water service center in Atlanta.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Motion Industries, Inc., a distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, announced the promotion of Pamela Sims to Vice President of Marketing, effective Sept. 1, 2018.
RYE BROOK, N.Y. – Xylem Inc. congratulates Caleb Liow Jia Le and Johnny Xiao Hong Yu of Singapore, the winners of the 2018 Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), the most prestigious international student competition for water-related research. The award was presented during the 22nd SJWP ceremony at the annual World Water Week celebration in Stockholm.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Emerson has recently opened its Middle East and Africa Flow Service Center at its Dubai campus. The facility will operate as a service center for customers in the Middle East and Africa.
HOUSTON – Planning, engineering and program management firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) has promoted Jeremy N. Nakashima, P.E., to lead the firm’s wastewater practice.
In this role, he will be responsible for building client relationships and expanding the firm’s wastewater practice around the country, ensuring the design quality of the firm’s wastewater projects, and mentoring the engineers in the group.
LUBBOCK, Texas – SIMFLO, a provider of industrial, agriculture and municipal-use pumps, has appointed Woody Boyd as its new president.
Boyd will be responsible for day-to-day company operations, management over its 120 employees, and guidance over the company’s growth via new product offerings and engineering technologies.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Fred Weisinger has been named as Kingsbury Inc.’s director of engineering. Weisinger is an accomplished engineer with strong production and management experience who has worked in the rotating-equipment industry for more than 30 years and in the fluid-film bearing industry for most of that time.
MUNICH and BOSTON - In the companies' latest Alliance Board meeting, Bentley Systems and Siemens decided to further strengthen their strategic alliance. The two companies have decided to extend their existing agreement, to further develop their joint business cooperation and commercial initiatives. Therefore, the joint innovation investment program will be increased from the initial 50 million euros funding to 100 million euros.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $699 million low-interest loan to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to help finance its innovative Southeast Treatment Plant Biosolids Digester Facilities Project.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Weir Oil & Gas Dubai announced today it has signed multi-year contracts in Iraq with two international oil companies totaling more than $50 million.
The contracts secure the provision of Weir Oil & Gas workshop services and engineering support for an oil field and valve repair and maintenance services for another giant oil field, respectively.