(April 18, 2016) -- Val-Matic Valve & Manufacturing Corp. announced that John V. Ballun, executive vice president and chief operating officer will succeed Ted J. Makowan as president and CEO.
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WAUKEGAN, Ill. (April 15, 2016) -- Yaskawa America Inc. (YAI) has announced the promotion of Mike Knapek, president and COO of the Drives & Motion Division, to the position of CEO.
Knapek takes over for Masahiro Ogawa, who has led Yaskawa’s Drives, Motion and Robotics business in the Americas for the past 5-1/2 years. Ogawa will return to Kurosaki, Japan, to take on the role of corporate vice president and general manager of Yaskawa’s global robotics business.
HOUSTON (April 14, 2016) – Intertek, a provider of quality solutions to industries worldwide, has partnered with Pepperl+Fuchs to pilot its ETL Hazardous Locations Panel Program. The collaboration marks the first complete project under Intertek’s new hazardous areas panel shop certification offering.
CAMBRIDGE, UK (April 13, 2016) -- AVEVA announced that BashNIPIneft LLC, a research and design institute for leading Russian oil and gas company Bashneft, has implemented AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) and AVEVA Laser Modeller.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. and ATHLONE, Ireland (April 13, 2016) – The Dow Chemical Company announced its investment in OxyMem Ltd.
The investment will accelerate the commercialization of OxyMem’s promising wastewater treatment technology, the Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR). The MABR technology has the potential to bring wastewater treatment closer to energy neutrality by reducing energy consumption for aeration by up to 75 percent.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (April 13, 2016) – The Water Environment Federation (WEF), the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) and the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF)—in partnership with the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW)—have announced the recipients of the 2016 Singapore International Water Week Scholarship (SIWWS):
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (April 12, 2016) — ITT Corporation’s Goulds Pumps, PRO Services and Bornemann brands today observed the fifth-annual Pump Appreciation Day, a global event held to raise awareness of the value of pumps to modern manufacturing and products and to honor those that make them possible.
KYOTO, Japan (April 11, 2016) (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nidec Corporation hereby announces, based on the resolution of the Board of Directors made on April 9, 2016, that the company will apply for voluntary delisting of its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and intends to file for the termination of registration of its ADSs under the U.S.
NORDBORG, Denmark (April 7, 2016) - On April 4, Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science Ulla Tørnæs inaugurated a new cross-Atlantic partnership, the Water Technology Alliance (WTA) California, in San Francisco, California. The aim of the cross-Atlantic partnership is to share knowledge and to develop water technology solutions targeting the current water crisis caused by climate change.
LOUISVILLE, KY (March 30, 2016) - Zoeller Company, a family-owned manufacturer of submersible sump and sewage pumps, recently opened a $4 million expansion at its headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.