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Godwin Pumps of America acquires Godwin England been designing and building portable pumps for more than 100 years - - with the rental, sales and marketing prowess of GPA, is expected to see significant growth.
Godwin Pumps of America (GPA) manufacturer and rental supplier of portable pumping systems in North and South America, has bought Godwin Pumps Limited (GPL), Quenington, England. John Michael Paz, who assumed the role of GPA president in 1985, will remain as president. Michael Stone, managing director of GPL, will continue in that position, as will the other directors of GPL. Both companies are privately held.
"The long term relationship of our two companies has now blossomed together to form a synergy of talents that will continue to make the Godwin Dri-Prime the leader in portable diesel driven pumps," stated President Paz. "We are poised for explosive growth not only in the United States, but also around the world. From the seedling in 1976 of Godwin Pumps of America to
GPA has been GPL's major client over the past five years. Combining the manufacturing background of GPL - which has Show report
AxFlow Holding AB, Sweden, has through its Danish subsidiary AxFlow A/S, Allemd, acquired Scana Godtkjaer & Armatur AS, Smcrum, Denmark. With this acquisition AxFlow A/S strengthens its position on the Danish market as a supplier of pumps, mixers, valves, fittings, instrumentation and filters to the Danish industry. President John Michael Paz.
accomplishing this merger. Being able to grow our business through our core expertise is within our corporate philosophy of 'Sticking to the knitting'." Acquisition
EuroChem results According to Reed Exhibitions, organisers of EuroChem 2001, the process engineering show at the NEC, exhibitors deemed Birmingham last month, highly successful. With visitors from all UK regions and abroad from Australasia, South East Asia, Mexico, the Middle East, Pakistan, Russian Federation, South Africa and the USA. The unaudited total was declared to be 6,200. Exhibition statistics show that nearly 87% of visitors were senior management or engineers,
AxFIow acquires Scana Godtkjaer
Cryogenics takeover comprising chairman/proprietor/ MDs 10.24%, directors 11.37%, managers 35.28% and engineers. 29.86% with 'other' making up the final 13.24%. Another draw for visitors was the range of exhibitor seminars that ran throughout the show's duration.
Rockwood Swendeman, which manufactures and assembles safety relief valves and diverter-switching valves for the industrial gas industry has become a 'Circor Cryogenics company' member of the new cryogenics division of Circor InternationaL
During the show, Reed Exhibition Companies presented magnums of champagne and a Palm Pilot to winners drawn from the list of visitors that had pre-registered on the Eurochem website.
The products will continue to be marketed under Rockwood Swendeman which will carry on manufacturing from its new production facility, located in Walden, NY.
Scana Godtkjaer & Armatur AS offers components and complete services, where the common denominator is pressure temperature and aggressive medias for all types of industries. The company represents European pump and valve manufacturers such as Lewa dosing pumps, Bredel peristaltic pumps, Hermetic canned motor centrifugal pumps, Gestra valves and control equipment. Scana Godtkjaer & Armatur AS has a turnover of EURO 4.5 million. AxFlow was established in Denmark in April 1998 under the name of Danax A/S. In November 1999, the Flow Division of Berendsen PMC was acquired. In October 2000 Danax A/S changed company name to AxFlow A/S.
Award
Award
Child's play
Queen's Awards for Enterprise 2002
Alexander Bridle, who attends the Brook First School, Crawley, is winner out of 6,000 entrants of the eighth 'Today's Engineers Help Us Every Day' national competition tor primary schoolchildren, which was organised by 16 of the UK's professional engineering bodies.
Engineering companies of all sizes are being urged to apply now for the 2002 Queen's Awards for Enterprise. The scheme recognises and rewards exceptional achievements and advances in all areas of British business.
Alexander received his prizes - which include a cheque for £1000 for technology equipment for his school. The competition challenged five-to-seven year olds to draw or paint a picture of either an engineer at work or something designed by engineers that has helped them or someone they
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know. Its aim was to make children aware that engineering; science and technology play a major part in every aspect of our lives and are also creative and fun. Alexander's entry illustrates a range of energy exploration technologies from oil rigs to coal mines that provide us with the power we use every day.
August 2001
Any type of business unit can apply for a Queen's Award in one or more of three categories: International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development. The minimum requirements are that entrants employ at least two people, be based in the UK and be high achievers in their field.
There is no limit to the number of Awards that can be made in any year. The deadline for next year's Awards is 31 October 2001. Entrants should phone 0870 5 13 44 86 or visit www.queensawards. org.uk for an entry pack. The winners will be announced on 21 April 2002 - - The Queen's birthday. Each winner will receive the Award at their own premises from the Lord Lieutenant. There is also a reception at Buckingham Palace for representatives from each winning business.
www.woridpumps.com
Acquisition
~cquisitior
Godwin Pumps of America acquires Godwin England been designing and building portable pumps for more than 100 years - - with the rental, sales and marketing prowess of GPA, is expected to see significant growth.
Godwin Pumps of America (GPA) manufacturer and rental supplier of portable pumping systems in North and South America, has bought Godwin Pumps Limited (GPL), Quenington, England. John Michael Paz, who assumed the role of GPA president in 1985, will remain as president. Michael Stone, managing director of GPL, will continue in that position, as will the other directors of GPL. Both companies are privately held.
"The long term relationship of our two companies has now blossomed together to form a synergy of talents that will continue to make the Godwin Dri-Prime the leader in portable diesel driven pumps," stated President Paz. "We are poised for explosive growth not only in the United States, but also around the world. From the seedling in 1976 of Godwin Pumps of America to
GPA has been GPL's major client over the past five years. Combining the manufacturing background of GPL - which has Show report
AxFlow Holding AB, Sweden, has through its Danish subsidiary AxFlow A/S, Allemd, acquired Scana Godtkjaer & Armatur AS, Smcrum, Denmark. With this acquisition AxFlow A/S strengthens its position on the Danish market as a supplier of pumps, mixers, valves, fittings, instrumentation and filters to the Danish industry. President John Michael Paz.
accomplishing this merger. Being able to grow our business through our core expertise is within our corporate philosophy of 'Sticking to the knitting'." Acquisition
EuroChem results According to Reed Exhibitions, organisers of EuroChem 2001, the process engineering show at the NEC, exhibitors deemed Birmingham last month, highly successful. With visitors from all UK regions and abroad from Australasia, South East Asia, Mexico, the Middle East, Pakistan, Russian Federation, South Africa and the USA. The unaudited total was declared to be 6,200. Exhibition statistics show that nearly 87% of visitors were senior management or engineers,
AxFIow acquires Scana Godtkjaer
Cryogenics takeover comprising chairman/proprietor/ MDs 10.24%, directors 11.37%, managers 35.28% and engineers. 29.86% with 'other' making up the final 13.24%. Another draw for visitors was the range of exhibitor seminars that ran throughout the show's duration.
Rockwood Swendeman, which manufactures and assembles safety relief valves and diverter-switching valves for the industrial gas industry has become a 'Circor Cryogenics company' member of the new cryogenics division of Circor InternationaL
During the show, Reed Exhibition Companies presented magnums of champagne and a Palm Pilot to winners drawn from the list of visitors that had pre-registered on the Eurochem website.
The products will continue to be marketed under Rockwood Swendeman which will carry on manufacturing from its new production facility, located in Walden, NY.
Scana Godtkjaer & Armatur AS offers components and complete services, where the common denominator is pressure temperature and aggressive medias for all types of industries. The company represents European pump and valve manufacturers such as Lewa dosing pumps, Bredel peristaltic pumps, Hermetic canned motor centrifugal pumps, Gestra valves and control equipment. Scana Godtkjaer & Armatur AS has a turnover of EURO 4.5 million. AxFlow was established in Denmark in April 1998 under the name of Danax A/S. In November 1999, the Flow Division of Berendsen PMC was acquired. In October 2000 Danax A/S changed company name to AxFlow A/S.
Award
Award
Child's play
Queen's Awards for Enterprise 2002
Alexander Bridle, who attends the Brook First School, Crawley, is winner out of 6,000 entrants of the eighth 'Today's Engineers Help Us Every Day' national competition tor primary schoolchildren, which was organised by 16 of the UK's professional engineering bodies.
Engineering companies of all sizes are being urged to apply now for the 2002 Queen's Awards for Enterprise. The scheme recognises and rewards exceptional achievements and advances in all areas of British business.
Alexander received his prizes - which include a cheque for £1000 for technology equipment for his school. The competition challenged five-to-seven year olds to draw or paint a picture of either an engineer at work or something designed by engineers that has helped them or someone they
. . . . 41,[ WORLD P U M P S
know. Its aim was to make children aware that engineering; science and technology play a major part in every aspect of our lives and are also creative and fun. Alexander's entry illustrates a range of energy exploration technologies from oil rigs to coal mines that provide us with the power we use every day.
August 2001
Any type of business unit can apply for a Queen's Award in one or more of three categories: International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development. The minimum requirements are that entrants employ at least two people, be based in the UK and be high achievers in their field.
There is no limit to the number of Awards that can be made in any year. The deadline for next year's Awards is 31 October 2001. Entrants should phone 0870 5 13 44 86 or visit www.queensawards. org.uk for an entry pack. The winners will be announced on 21 April 2002 - - The Queen's birthday. Each winner will receive the Award at their own premises from the Lord Lieutenant. There is also a reception at Buckingham Palace for representatives from each winning business.
www.woridpumps.com