Scottish Water Tops Water Company Performance Survey

A strong performance on contractual approach, collaboration and communication have catapulted Scottish Water to the top of the 2023 annual water company survey carried out by British Water. Key findings from the survey include: Last year’s joint lowest performing water company, Southern Water, has risen by one place to 10th, while Northern Ireland Water remains […]

New Sales Company Established

The British distributor Obart from Maidstone in Kent now trades as Tsurumi Pumps UK. This means that the Japanese manufacturer now has six sales companies in Europe. This was announced by Tsurumi’s European headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany. The change of name took place on 1 September 2023, following Tsurumi’s entry as majority shareholder in the […]

Valmet Ranked as the Most Attractive Employer in Finland Among Engineering Professionals

Valmet has been ranked as the most attractive employer among engineering professionals in Finland according to a new study by Universum. The ranking was published in Universum’s annual survey, which is the biggest employer attractiveness survey in Finland. Earlier this year, Valmet was ranked as the second most attractive employer among engineering students in Finland. […]

GEA Supervisory Board Appoints Bernd Brinker as Interim CEO

The Supervisory Board of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft has appointed Bernd Brinker (58) as interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with effect from October 16, 2023. For a period of one year, he will succeed Marcus A. Ketter, who passed away suddenly on August 6, 2023. Professor Dieter Kempf, Chairman of the GEA Supervisory Board, said: “In […]

ITT, Inc. and Hexagon Join Forces to Enhance Industrial Equipment Monitoring Solutions

ITT, Inc.’s i-ALERT® and Hexagon’s j5 Operator Rounds will integrate their machine health data tracking and analysis features to help heavy industries reduce maintenance costs and unplanned downtime. The new offering can identify operational risks in advance, which significantly reduces the possibility of failure in pumps, motors, and other industrial equipment – as well as […]

MCE Has Chosen Poland as a Country Partner

The ‘Country Partner’ project launched in the previous editions is one of the promotional activities designed by the organisation each time to promote meetings between exhibiting companies and decision-makers from some of the most attractive foreign markets. For the next edition in March 2024, MCE – Mostra Convegno Expocomfort has chosen Poland to enhance the […]

Flender Further Expands Its Footprint in Australia

Australia plays a significant role in the global ramp up of renewable energies. In view of this, German drive train specialist Flender further expands production and service capacities on the continent by opening a new facility in Sydney. With its Winergy brand for wind turbine drives the company has one of the largest installed bases […]

NETZSCH Expands Its Production Capabilities

NETZSCH Pumps & Systems is building a new production plant at our Brazilian manufacturing site as part of the NETZSCH group’s global strategy for producing and supplying the global NOTOS® multiple screw pumps market. Whether sanitary or industrial pumps, this new plant will take over the entire global production of multiple screw pumps. Furthermore, this […]

Faithful Service for 36 Years

An R5 oil-lubricated rotary vane vacuum pump from Busch Vacuum Solutions has been in service since 1987 in the production area of bakery and cake shop Feinbäckerei Ruch. It is still in use twelve hours a day for flour conveying at the bakery in Rosdorf, in the German upland region of Harz. “This is a […]

Xylem Announces CEO Succession Aligned with Growth Strategy

Xylem Inc. announced that after a distinguished decade leading Xylem, President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Decker has announced his plans to retire as CEO at the end of 2023. In accordance with the Company’s long-term succession planning process, Decker will be succeeded by Matthew Pine, Xylem’s Chief Operating Officer, effective January 1, 2024. At […]