ELMHURST, Ill. (Oct. 8, 2015) – Val-Matic’s vice president of sales and marketing, Carl W. Smith, will retire on March 31, 2016, after a 32-year career with Val-Matic Valve and Manufacturing Corp.
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SURREY, British Columbia (Oct. 8, 2015) – Singer Valve has launched MetroH2O, an online educational tool for control valve users.
“We have had a great response from customers who are using MetroH2O as a training refresher for their operators. We are hoping to also get an engineering post-secondary institution on board to give students a more in depth understanding of control valves,” said Mark Gimson, marketing and business development manager for Singer Valve.
Washington, D.C. (Oct. 8, 2015) – California Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 802 into law, meaning the state’s commercial building benchmarking program will be implemented, and it will be expanded to cover large multifamily housing, making California the first state in the country with such a program.
MCALLEN, Texas (Oct. 6, 2015) – Xylem has been awarded a $1.25 million contract to provide advanced treatment technology to the South Wastewater Treatment Plant in the city of McAllen in Texas. The plant provides 240 million gallons of reclaimed, treated wastewater annually to the McAllen Palm View Golf Course for irrigation purposes. Xylem’s technology will help ensure consistent quality at the plant as it treats up to 10 million gallons per day (MGD) of wastewater.
BOSTON, Mass. (Oct. 5, 2015) – Private water concessions in Manila have driven water coverage from under 60 percent to nearly 100 percent between 1997 and 2015 and created a more positive environment for private company participation going forward.
PHOENIX, Ariz. (Oct. 5, 2015) – As part of its western region expansion, DXP/Phoenix has hired Dean Taylor as mechanical engineer/technical sales.
Taylor began his career with Parker Hannifin as a field service technician for heavy-duty mining equipment. He also has served Metso Minerals as wear products specialist for mining and industrial equipment.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Oct. 5, 2015) – ITT Corporation has completed the previously announced acquisition of Wolverine Automotive Holdings Inc., the parent company of Wolverine Advanced Materials LLC (Wolverine).
LONDON (Oct. 1, 2015) – The continuing deterioration of security conditions in Yemen has led to several international oil companies withdrawing from their operations in the country, with a once-significant source of global supply being reduced to marginal volumes, says an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.
LONDON (1 October 2015)—The continuing deterioration of security conditions in Yemen has led to several international oil companies withdrawing from their operations in the country, with a once-significant source of global supply being reduced to marginal volumes, says an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData. Oil production in Yemen peaked at 441,000 barrels per day (bd) in 2001, but this decreased to 125,000 bd in 2014 and is forecast to fall to as low as 30,000 bd in 2015.
EMMABODA, Sweden (Sept. 29, 2015) - Xylem, Inc., a global water technology company, has produced the 4 millionth Flygt wastewater pump at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Sweden. Xylem is the first international pump manufacturer to have produced this quantity of wastewater pumps at the same facility.