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TORONTO (Aug. 17, 2016)—Armstrong Fluid Technology has been selected as a winner of the 2016 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award that recognizes companies around the world for superior leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Armstrong received special recognition for its “Global Intelligent Fluid-Flow Equipment Product Line Strategy Leadership.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Aug. 15, 2016)—FCX Performance announced that it has completed the acquisition of RL Stone Inc. Based in Syracuse, New York, RL Stone is a regional distributor of valves and instrumentation to the process market.

FCX Performance is a leading specialty flow control distributor serving original equipment manufacturers; engineering, procurement and construction firms; and end-users across the industrial process, energy and high-purity industries.

ROCK ISLAND, Illinois (Aug. 15, 2016)—The 29th annual Inpro/Seal VIP Charity Golf Tournament raised more than $20,000 for Aspire, a nonprofit in the Midwest that provides services to children and adults with developmental disabilities.

More than 100 Inpro/Seal customers, vendors and employees attended the VIP Charity Golf Tournament on Aug. 8 at Oakwood Country Club in Coal Valley, Ill., to raise money and build awareness for the nonprofit.

SHANGHAI (Aug. 15, 2016) — GE announced that it will supply its advanced wastewater treatment equipment for the Jingneng Zhuozhou coal-fired power plant in Zhuozhou City, 60 kilometers south of Beijing, in Hebei Province, China. GE will provide its membrane and brine concentration technologies followed by crystallization to produce pure NaCl salt (sodium chloride).