DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – Brian Halstensgaard, lead customer service technician for SJE, won the Employee Owner of the Year Award on April 12 at the annual meeting of the Minnesota/Dakotas ESOP Association chapter. This award honors a non-management employee owner who has taken the initiative to learn about the ESOP, helped educate and motivate their colleagues, and actively promoted an employee ownership culture.

HOUSTON & OSLO, Norway - Arundo Analytics, a software company enabling advanced analytics in heavy industry, announced a partnership with Acteon Group, an integrated global provider of subsea services, to deliver machine learning models for subsea applications on the Arundo Enterprise platform.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – To further expand its service network in the United States of America the KSB Group has bought the U.S. company DUBRIC Industries Inc. The company was founded in 1974 in Comstock Park, Michigan, about halfway between Detroit and Chicago. It is specialized in servicing and selling pumps, other rotating equipment and the corresponding spare parts. The new company operates under the name of KSB Dubric Inc.

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Effective immediately, Watermark Engineered Product Sales is CSI Control’s new manufacturers’ representative for Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. The addition of Watermark increases CSI Controls’ growing distribution network into areas previously unrepresented and will provide a higher level of service to customers in that region.

EL CENTRO, Calif. – Schneider Electric announced it has secured a $1.6 million grant to help fund a facility improvement project at the El Centro Wastewater Treatment Plant in Imperial County, California. Representatives from Schneider Electric presented a check to El Centro city officials during a recent City Council meeting to mark this important occasion.