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Colfax wins €5.7mn pump order from Brightoil
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Grundfos opens engineered systems facility in Texas Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos has officially opened its new Peerless Engineered Systems building in Brookshire, Texas, after an investment of almost US$4 million.
which will continue to focus on the design and manufacture of pre-packaged fire pump systems, shares land with Grundfos Commercial Building Services (the former Paco Pumps).
The new 45 000 sq ft Peerless Engineered Systems facility,
www.grundfos.us www.peerlesspump.com
Hyundai Heavy Industries delivers pumps to Russia Hyundai Heavy Industries Engine & Machinery Division (HHI-EMD) is supplying large cooling water supply pumps for the nuclear power plant which is being built in Kalinin, Russia. The order covers eight sets of Hyundai Heavy Industries vertical cooling water supply pumps, driven by 3900 kW
electric motors equipped with variable frequency drivers. Each Hyundai Heavy Industries pump set is capable of pumping 47 520 cubic metres of cooling water per hour at a head of 23 metres. The first four pump sets are being delivered in March and the rest in April. www.hyundai-engine.com
ProMinent expands in South Korea
Colfax wins €5.7mn pump order from Brightoil
Metering pump specialist ProMinent has expanded its production plant in South Korea.
Colfax is supplying 180 two-screw rotary positive displacement pumps to China’s Brightoil Shipping Group for installation in 40 new tankers under a €5.7 million pump order.
The German pump group has invested around €2.5 million in its metering system production plant in Giheung-gu, Yongin City, Gyeonggi-do, near Seoul. “With high-capacity local production, we are ideally equipped for the future and, at the same time, can meet
customers’ requirements more precisely, avoid long distribution channels and expand our global production and logistics network,” said Prof Dr hc Viktor Dulger, chairman of the ProMinent supervisory board. ProMinent has had a presence in South Korea since 1991 with its own production and distribution company. www.prominent.com
Teikoku USA to acquire pump service business Teikoku USA Inc has reached an agreement with Texas Process Equipment Co of Houston, Texas to acquire its canned motor pump service business. Texas Process Equipment, a distributor of process pumps in the US Gulf Coast market, is the authorised service centre and sales channel partner for Teikoku USA’s Teikoku, Chempump and Dynapump brands of canned motor pumps. After the divestment of the canned motor pump service
business to Teikoku USA, Texas Process Equipment will continue to supply sales, customer support and value added services to the process pump market. Teikoku USA will maintain the Texas Process Equipment canned motor pump service business facility in Houston and consolidate its current sales and warehouse operations in the city into the service centre. www.chempump.com www.texasprocess.com
The Colfax pumps, manufactured by Houttuin in Utrecht,
the Netherlands, will be used for transferring fuel oil and gas oil, as well as stripping. Colfax will ship the pumps in instalments beginning later this year and continuing into 2011. www.colfaxcorp.com
Hydraulic Institute elects 2010 board, officers The Hydraulic Institute has announced its 2010 board of directors and officers.
training manager, Grundfos Pumps USA, is the new vice president, Knowledge & Education.
Dennis Ziegler, president and CEO of GIW Industries Inc, is the newly elected chairman of the HI board. Ziegler served as the 2009 president of the pump association. Ken Napolitano, president, ITT Residential & Commercial Water, takes on the HI presidency, having served as the HI’s vice president, Knowledge & Education in 2009.
The other board members include Sven Olsen, president, Leistritz Corp; Mike Medaska, vice president, ARO Fluid Products; Rich Heppe, president, Industrial Motors & Systems, Emerson/US Motors; Mike Sutter, VP and GM, Flowserve Flow Solutions Group; Chad Tuttle, COO Americas, ClydeUnion; Dave Brockway, president, Intelliquip LLC; Dave Roland, president, Pentair Engineered Flow Technologies; and Tom Conroy, VP and GM, Chempump – A Division of Teikoku USA Inc.
David McKinstry, vice president, IMO Pump, was re-elected vice president of Technical Affairs; Dean Douglas, president, Dover Pump Solutions Group, will serve as vice president, Member Services; and Jim Swetye, regional
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Business news
4H`
Grundfos opens engineered systems facility in Texas Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos has officially opened its new Peerless Engineered Systems building in Brookshire, Texas, after an investment of almost US$4 million.
which will continue to focus on the design and manufacture of pre-packaged fire pump systems, shares land with Grundfos Commercial Building Services (the former Paco Pumps).
The new 45 000 sq ft Peerless Engineered Systems facility,
www.grundfos.us www.peerlesspump.com
Hyundai Heavy Industries delivers pumps to Russia Hyundai Heavy Industries Engine & Machinery Division (HHI-EMD) is supplying large cooling water supply pumps for the nuclear power plant which is being built in Kalinin, Russia. The order covers eight sets of Hyundai Heavy Industries vertical cooling water supply pumps, driven by 3900 kW
electric motors equipped with variable frequency drivers. Each Hyundai Heavy Industries pump set is capable of pumping 47 520 cubic metres of cooling water per hour at a head of 23 metres. The first four pump sets are being delivered in March and the rest in April. www.hyundai-engine.com
ProMinent expands in South Korea
Colfax wins €5.7mn pump order from Brightoil
Metering pump specialist ProMinent has expanded its production plant in South Korea.
Colfax is supplying 180 two-screw rotary positive displacement pumps to China’s Brightoil Shipping Group for installation in 40 new tankers under a €5.7 million pump order.
The German pump group has invested around €2.5 million in its metering system production plant in Giheung-gu, Yongin City, Gyeonggi-do, near Seoul. “With high-capacity local production, we are ideally equipped for the future and, at the same time, can meet
customers’ requirements more precisely, avoid long distribution channels and expand our global production and logistics network,” said Prof Dr hc Viktor Dulger, chairman of the ProMinent supervisory board. ProMinent has had a presence in South Korea since 1991 with its own production and distribution company. www.prominent.com
Teikoku USA to acquire pump service business Teikoku USA Inc has reached an agreement with Texas Process Equipment Co of Houston, Texas to acquire its canned motor pump service business. Texas Process Equipment, a distributor of process pumps in the US Gulf Coast market, is the authorised service centre and sales channel partner for Teikoku USA’s Teikoku, Chempump and Dynapump brands of canned motor pumps. After the divestment of the canned motor pump service
business to Teikoku USA, Texas Process Equipment will continue to supply sales, customer support and value added services to the process pump market. Teikoku USA will maintain the Texas Process Equipment canned motor pump service business facility in Houston and consolidate its current sales and warehouse operations in the city into the service centre. www.chempump.com www.texasprocess.com
The Colfax pumps, manufactured by Houttuin in Utrecht,
the Netherlands, will be used for transferring fuel oil and gas oil, as well as stripping. Colfax will ship the pumps in instalments beginning later this year and continuing into 2011. www.colfaxcorp.com
Hydraulic Institute elects 2010 board, officers The Hydraulic Institute has announced its 2010 board of directors and officers.
training manager, Grundfos Pumps USA, is the new vice president, Knowledge & Education.
Dennis Ziegler, president and CEO of GIW Industries Inc, is the newly elected chairman of the HI board. Ziegler served as the 2009 president of the pump association. Ken Napolitano, president, ITT Residential & Commercial Water, takes on the HI presidency, having served as the HI’s vice president, Knowledge & Education in 2009.
The other board members include Sven Olsen, president, Leistritz Corp; Mike Medaska, vice president, ARO Fluid Products; Rich Heppe, president, Industrial Motors & Systems, Emerson/US Motors; Mike Sutter, VP and GM, Flowserve Flow Solutions Group; Chad Tuttle, COO Americas, ClydeUnion; Dave Brockway, president, Intelliquip LLC; Dave Roland, president, Pentair Engineered Flow Technologies; and Tom Conroy, VP and GM, Chempump – A Division of Teikoku USA Inc.
David McKinstry, vice president, IMO Pump, was re-elected vice president of Technical Affairs; Dean Douglas, president, Dover Pump Solutions Group, will serve as vice president, Member Services; and Jim Swetye, regional
www.pumps.org
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