MANCHESTER, U.K. (October 2014) – NOV Mono’s forward-thinking approach to commerce and product development has earned the business a prominent business award in Australia. The award recognizes the general performance of the business and the company’s InviziQ Pressure Sewer System (PSS).
EDMONTON, Alberta and VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Sept. 30 2014) – EPCOR Water Services Inc. and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies have partnered to build the largest nutrient recovery facility in Canada.
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. 30, 2014) – Xylem Inc. has won a 2014 Innovative Technology Award from the Water Environment Federation (WEF) for the company’s revolutionary wastewater pumping solution, Flygt Experior. Flygt Experior’s clog-resistant design has been successfully field tested and proven to reduce energy consumption.
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.