ALEXANDRIA, Va. (July 29, 2013)—The Water Environment Federation (WEF) announced the appointment of Dr. Eileen O’Neill as WEF Interim Executive Director following the resignation of Executive Director Jeff Eger.
NEWS
Here you will find the latest news and information from the pumps industry. To keep up with the goings-on, don’t miss a thing by subscribing to our Pump Users Digest and Pump Industry Insider newsletters, as well as our all-product edition, Products for Pump Users.
BRUSSELS (July 17, 2013) – The Europump Technical Commission has published its guidelines on pump vibration standards, available for free on the Europump website. The guidelines present the essential points of each standard and explain where each standard tends to be used.
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (July 22, 2013) – The Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America, Inc. announced that it has received the NorthFace ScoreBoard AwardSM from Omega Management Group Corp. in recognition of achieving excellence in customer service and support in 2012. Since 2000, the award has been presented annually to companies who, as rated solely by their own customers, exceeded expectations in customer satisfaction during the prior calendar year.
MALDEN, Mass. (July 19, 2013) – Asahi/America, Inc., a manufacturer of thermoplastic fluid flow technologies, has redesigned their Internet website. The new site offers engineers, designers, installers and plant managers a wealth of technical and product information encompassing the entire Asahi/America family of products including valves, actuators, piping systems and high purity products.
CAMARILLO, Calif. (July 23, 2013) – Power-One, Inc. announced that the stockholders approved the adoption of the merger agreement, pursuant to which ABB will acquire Power-One for $6.35 per share of Power-One common stock.
KENT, England (July 5, 2013) – Euroflo Fluid Handling, exclusive U.K. distributors of the Dragflow, Grindex and Marelli brands, launched a new site as they increase their marketing efforts and launch into an e-commerce side of the business.
CHICAGO (July 15, 2013) – McIlvaine has identified a distinct liquid macrofiltration market which will generate revenues of $6 billion this year. The market is undergoing transformation due to a number of acquisitions. Here are some of them as identified in the continuous online McIlvaine report, Liquid Filtration and Media: World Markets.
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland (July 15, 2013) – Xylem has won a contract to provide ultraviolet (UV) drinking water treatment solutions to the largest UV disinfection project ever undertaken in Sweden. The Xylem solutions will help deliver clean, treated drinking water to 900,000 people across 16 municipalities. The facility will have the capacity to handle a potential 25 percent increase in water volume to support future population growth.
CHICAGO (July 15, 2013) – Producers of treatment chemicals will generate revenues of $11.9 billion next year in Asia. This is the latest forecast in the continually updated McIlvaine publication—“Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market.”
Water and Wastewater Chemical Revenues, Asa (millions of dollars)