IRVING, Texas (Sept. 30, 2014) – Flowserve Corporation announced that it has received a major order to provide multiple pumping systems to Alstom, a France-based global leader in power generation. The orders, totaling approximately $30 million, were booked in the second quarter of 2014. The pumping systems will be used for boiler feedwater and condensate service at two units for a new ultra-supercritical (USC), coal-fired power plant in Opole, Poland.

NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 29, 2014) – GE has announced the appointment of Ralph Exton to serve as 2014-2015 treasurer on the board of trustees for the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international organization of water quality professionals headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. He was first elected to WEF’s board of trustees in 2012.

TOKYO (Sept. 25, 2014) – Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (TMEIC) has formed a new manufacturing subsidiary in North America, TMEIC Power Electronics Products Corporation, to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) inverters and medium-voltage (MV) variable frequency drives in North America. Fabrication of PV inverters will commence in fall 2014, followed by MV drives in spring 2015 at the Houston, Texas-based facility.