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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (April 20, 2015) – Effective July 1, 2015, Paul Cooke has been appointed Regional President Americas and President & CEO of Bosch Rexroth Corporation U.S. Cooke will continue as Senior Vice President Sales within the Business Unit Industrial Applications at the headquarters in Lohr, Germany until the end of June 2015.

RENO, Nev. (April 17, 2015) – Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA) has just received the Presidents Award from the Partnership for Safe Water (PSW). With this award, TMWA’s Chalk Bluff Water Treatment Plant ranks among the highest performing water treatment plants in the country for individual filter performance. Only 18 utilities across the country have achieved this award.

LONDON (April 14, 2015) – POWER-GEN Europe and its co-located event Renewable Energy World Europe, the leading conference and exhibition for the international power and renewable industries, has announced the launch of the POWER-GEN Confidence Index—a pan European study of the region’s power market which will allow power generation industry practitioners from across Europe to have their say on the industry.

RYE BROOK, N.Y. (April 13, 2015) – Xylem Inc. announced that it has been selected to participate in the U.S. Presidential Trade Mission to the People’s Republic of China, taking place April 12-17. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall will lead this Smart Cities – Smart Growth Business Development Mission, accompanied by representatives from 25 companies.

CHICAGO (April 13, 2015) – The Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA), the preeminent association for the industrial power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) distribution channel, welcomed three new distributor member companies.

BK Industrial Solutions, LLC (Beaumont, Texas) is a distributor of motors, material handling/conveyor systems and components, bearings and mechanical power transmission products.

WILMINGTON, Mass. (April 13, 2015) – Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. (KMS), developer and manufacturer of innovative membranes and membrane filtration systems, announced that is has been selected to provide its PURON High Flow (HF) reinforced hollow fiber ultrafiltration system for the expansion of the Alto da Boa Vista (ABV) drinking water plant in São Paulo, Brazil.

SAN FRANCISCO (April 10, 2015) – The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) together with San Mateo Board of Supervisors Dave Pine and Peninsula water agencies stood on top of a new 11 million gallon treated water reservoir to celebrate the completion of a $278 million project improving the seismic and operational reliability of the Harry Tracy Water Treatment Plant located in San Bruno.