TOBIAS WETZEL NAMED AS NEW MANAGERIAL HEAD OF SALES AND SERVICE

Tobias Wetzel Named as New Managerial Head of Sales and Service

Back to his old domain: on January 1, 2024, Tobias Wetzel will become the new managerial head of Sales and Service at KHS. This has now been confirmed by the company’s supervisory board. The 50-year-old switches from the Mannesmann Stainless Tubes group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of seamless stainless steel and nickel-based alloy […]

RETROFITTING PUMPS FOR A NEW ROLE

Retrofitting Pumps for a New Role

Floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels are used for processing oil and transferring it to tankers or pipelines. Positioned close to an oilfield, they remain there until the field is exhausted. Originally designed with a service life of over 20 years, FPSOs represent a huge investment for international oil companies (IOCs) and to maximize […]

WATER SECTOR MUST DIG DEEPER ON COLLABORATION

Water Sector Must Dig Deeper on Collaboration

The need to intensify collaboration, integration and digitisation, to deliver a vast programme of works in AMP8 – the asset management plan period 2025-30 – was one of the themes under discussion at British Water’s first annual conference, which took place in Manchester on 21 November 2023. Delivering a keynote address, Jane Simpson, commercial, engineering […]

INNOVATION MODEL WILL ACCELERATE WATER COMPANY TRIALS

Innovation Model Will Accelerate Water Company Trials

An updated innovation accelerator has been launched by Spring as part of a multi-year effort to remove the barriers to mobilising trials at pace within the water sector. The new Spring Accelerator calls for implementable innovations for water companies to trial, progress and adopt in collaboration, working to deliver ambitions set out in the 2050 […]

EBARA FELLOW MANABU TSUJIMURA AWARDED MEDAL OF HONOR AT 2023 AUTUMN CONFERMENT OF DECORATION

EBARA Fellow Manabu Tsujimura Awarded Medal of Honor at 2023 Autumn Conferment of Decoration

Manabu Tsujimura, a Fellow* of EBARA CORPORATION (EBARA) and former Chairman of the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ), has been awarded a Medal with Blue Ribbon at the 2023 Autumn Decoration conducted by the Cabinet Office of Japan. Background The Cabinet Office of Japan awards decorations, including Medals of Honor, to individuals in recognition […]

SULZER PUMP RETROFIT SECURES FLARE KNOCKOUT PUMP RELIABILITY

Sulzer Pump Retrofit Secures Flare Knockout Pump Reliability

To ensure the profitability of offshore oil and gas extraction, operators require equipment to perform reliably throughout long periods between maintenance intervals. When an international oil company (IOC) was experiencing short mean time between failures (MTBF) for its liquified petroleum flare knockout vessel pumps on an offshore platform in Malaysia, the business approached Sulzer for […]

Sulzer Pump Retrofit Secures Flare Knockout Pump Reliability

Sulzer Pump Retrofit Secures Flare Knockout Pump Reliability

To ensure the profitability of offshore oil and gas extraction, operators require equipment to perform reliably throughout long periods between maintenance intervals. When an international oil company (IOC) was experiencing short mean time between failures (MTBF) for its liquified petroleum flare knockout vessel pumps on an offshore platform in Malaysia, the business approached Sulzer for […]

ATLAS COPCO HAS ACQUIRED A TURKISH DISTRIBUTOR OF COMPRESSED AIR SOLUTIONS

Atlas Copco Has Acquired a Turkish Distributor of Compressed Air Solutions

Atlas Copco has acquired Hamamcıoğlu Makina (HAMAK), a Turkish company mainly focused on sales and service of air compressor solutions, providing compressors, parts, and service to the Turkish market. Hamamcıoğlu Makina has its head office in Istanbul, Türkiye, and has 23 employees. The company has customers in industries such as textile, iron and steel, automotive, […]

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 […]