DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Emerson has recently opened its Middle East and Africa Flow Service Center at its Dubai campus. The facility will operate as a service center for customers in the Middle East and Africa.

HOUSTON – Planning, engineering and program management firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) has promoted Jeremy N. Nakashima, P.E., to lead the firm’s wastewater practice.

In this role, he will be responsible for building client relationships and expanding the firm’s wastewater practice around the country, ensuring the design quality of the firm’s wastewater projects, and mentoring the engineers in the group.

LUBBOCK, Texas – SIMFLO, a provider of industrial, agriculture and municipal-use pumps, has appointed Woody Boyd as its new president.

Boyd will be responsible for day-to-day company operations, management over its 120 employees, and guidance over the company’s growth via new product offerings and engineering technologies.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Fred Weisinger has been named as Kingsbury Inc.’s director of engineering. Weisinger is an accomplished engineer with strong production and management experience who has worked in the rotating-equipment industry for more than 30 years and in the fluid-film bearing industry for most of that time.

MUNICH and BOSTON - In the companies' latest Alliance Board meeting, Bentley Systems and Siemens decided to further strengthen their strategic alliance. The two companies have decided to extend their existing agreement, to further develop their joint business cooperation and commercial initiatives. Therefore, the joint innovation investment program will be increased from the initial 50 million euros funding to 100 million euros.