Global Pump Market Growing
The global pump market, driven in part by pump use in buildings, is expected to experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5 percent between this year and 2020, according to research firm Technavio.
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High-Efficiency Recirculation Pump for Wastewater Treatment
Industrial manufacturing firm Sulzer has introduced a submersible recirculation pump for water and wastewater applications. The new pump series, ABS XRCP 800 PA, was developed for the pumping and recirculation of activated sludge in wastewater treatment plants during the nitrification and denitrification process, as well as for the pumping of ... Read more »
Xylem’s 4M Wastewater Pumps Solve Worldwide Water Challenges
Water technology company Xylem has produced its 4 millionth Flygt wastewater pump at its manufacturing facility in Sweden, making it the first international pump manufacturer to have produced this quantity of wastewater pumps at the same facility. The 4 millionth Flygt wastewater pump will support the the central pumping station ... Read more »
GE Hitachi Pumps Improve Nuclear Plant Safety
General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy is working with utility customers in Japan to deliver turbine water lubricated (TWL) pumps manufactured by ClydeUnion Pumps, an SPX brand. The steam-powered pumps are designed to ensure emergency reactor cooling in the event of a complete station blackout and can function when fully submerged ... Read more »
NOV Waste Pumps Cut Day-Long Maintenance to 30 Minutes
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) has provided a pair of Mono progressing cavity pumps, which are helping to manage some 12,000 metric tons of waste material each year, including 7,500 metric tons of food waste from North Somerset Council, at a major waste recycling plant in Weston-super-Mare, UK. An EZstrip transfer ... Read more »
Sulzer Pumps for Salt Caverns Storage Project
Sulzer has received an order from Strathcona Storage Limited Partnership to supply pumps for the application of injecting hydrocarbons at a very high pressure into salt caverns for storage. The CP Volute Style Pumps for the ethylene service and CP Volute Style Pumps for the ethylene service will be shipped ... Read more »
Grand Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant Installs Landia Chopper Pumps
The Grand Canyon’s South Rim Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) will soon have six new Landia non-clog chopper pumps. The Landia chopper pumps, which are designed with an external knife system to prevent solids from entering the pumps’ casing, will be installed adjacent to the plant’s returned activated sludge and waste ... Read more »
Xylem Wins $6M Panama Canal Expansion Project Contract
Water technology company Xylem has been awarded a $6 million contract to provide pumps in the Panama Canal expansion program. Xylem is providing its heavy duty Godwin dewatering pumps to fill the third set of basin locks on the Pacific Ocean sector, with 1.7 billion gallons of water, as part ... Read more »
IoT Shakes Up Global Pumps Industry
By the end of 2015, the global pumps market will tide over several waves of uncertainty to register substantial growth, Frost & Sullivan says. The decline in oil prices, in the beginning of 2015, in particular, forced consolidation and a shift to innovative operational procedures as end users focused on ... Read more »
GEA Acquires Hygienic Pumps Supplier
Technology group GEA has acquired Hilge, a leading supplier of hygienic pumps, especially stainless steel pumps for food and beverage applications. The company is based at Bodenheim, Germany and generated with about 150 employees revenues of more than EUR 35 million ($39 million) in fiscal year 2014. Hilge’s product range ... Read more »
Acoustiblok Quiets Water District’s Well Motor Noise
Acoustiblok has installed a system to quiet a noisy well motor issue that was affecting some nearby residents for Three Valleys Municipal Water District in California. The source of the noise was a new groundwater well that had been drilled, and a pump and variable frequency drive (VFO) motor installed ... Read more »
Global Water Pumps Market to Surpass $54bn by 2020
The global water pumps market is projected to surpass $54 billion by 2020, according to a TechSci Research report. Global Water Pumps Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2020 says the market is growing on account of increasing industrialization and growth in various end-use industries such as water and wastewater treatment, chemicals, power, ... Read more »