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ABS WINS FRENCH CONTRACT Finnish-based paper company UPM/Kymmene is expanding its activities in France. The subsidiary UPM/ Chapelles Darblay is to increase its deinking capacity from 200 000 t/a to 350 000 t/a, by building a third deinking line at the mill in, Grand Couronne. ABS pumps and agitators will be installed. After completion of the new line, the mill will use 100 per cent deinked waste paper to produce newsprint. The investment cost will be FFr524 million. The start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1999. Engineering will be carried out by the Finnish company Jakko POyry.
CONBRACO EXPANDS PRODUCT LINE Conbraco Industries Inc has signed agreements to acquire two St Louis-area manufacturers. Conbraco will purchase ProTech Valves and Controls Inc and AirTech Inc. ProTech manufactures butterfly valves and AirTech is a producer of actuators and accessories. Both companies' products are used in chemical, sanitary, transportation and general service applications. Based in Matthews, NC, Conbraco Industries is in its seventh decade as a full-line supplier of valves and flow control products. Conbraco manufactures more than 120 products under the Conbraco®, Apollo®, RP&C ® and IPG® brand names, and is most wellknown for its Apollo brand ball valves. ProTech butterfly valves range from 1.5 inches to 24 inches. The company manufactures general purpose
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valves, flanged valves, sanitary and chemical valves as well as 316 stainless steel valves up to 12 inches. Other varieties include high-flow valves, HVAC butterfly valves and transportation valves. AirTech's product line includes a complete line of pneumatic rack-and-pinion actuators, electric actuators and manual valve operators, plus a full range of accessories. Both the AirTech and ProTech manufacturing facilities will remain based in Missouri. Conbraco currently operates nearly 1.5 million square feet of ISO 9001-registered manufacturing space and maintains stocked local inventories through a network of selected distributors.
DOUBLE FIRST FOR WEIR Weir Pumps is to supply the mechanical package of the world's first 3.5 MW variable speed drive descaling pumpset. The contract was awarded by Danieli United for Nucor Steel's new Plate Mill in Hertford County, North Carolina, and is Weir's first success in the US domestic steel market. Dale Robertson, metals industry specialist with Weir Pumps, said: "This is a major breakthrough and by installing variable speed descale pumps, instead of conventional fixed speed units, energy costs are significantly reduced. The maintenance of the pumps is also drastically reduced and this should increase mill productivity and profits due to less down-time." Descaling is the most arduous pumping application in the world and high pressure pumps are used to remove the scale which forms on the surface of the steel slab during the manufacturing process. Descaling technology supplied by Weir helps to produce over 100 000 tonnes of strip steel per day worldwide.
STANDARD DISCOUNT FROM HI The Hydraulic Institute (HI) is offering its five newest standards bound with the latest 1994 edition of its 13 original HI Pump Standards in a discounted package. There will also be a free HI Engineering Data Book with orders placed for the newly combined 18-volume set. The five new standards are Centrifugal Pumps - Horizontal Baseplate Design; Pumps Polymer Materials Selection; Centrifugal and Vertical Pumps - Allowable Operating Region; Centrifugal and Vertical Pumps - NPSH Margin; and Pump Intake Design. The 13-volume 1994 edition of HI Pump Standards and the five new standards are available in text and CD-Rom formats and replace the 14th and all prior editions. They cover the full range of pump types, definitions, industry terminology, design and application, installation, operations and maintenance guidelines and HI's widely accepted test standards. Together, HI's five new standards, the HI Pump Standards' 1994 Edition and the free HI Engineering Data Book are valued at US$629. For a limited time, the new bundled package is available for US$495. To order, contact the HI on: Tel: +1 973 267 7772 Fax: +1 973 267 9055.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS FOR EUROPUMP Europump's General Secretariat is relocating to new offices in Brussels. From January, Guy van Doorslaer can be contacted at: Europump, Diamant Building, 80 Boulevard Reyers, 5th Floor, 1030 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 706 82 30 Fax: +32 2 706 79 88
• ABS has installed its 5 millionth pump worldwide. The submersible system from the AFP series, was installed in the new Frankfurt Hilton hotel. • According to the VDMA (the German Machinery and Plant Manufacturers' Association), October 1998 orders received by members declined by 5 per cent in real terms compared with last year. Domestic orders rose by 3 per cent and foreign orders fell by 10 per cent. In the three-month period August-October, which is influenced to a lesser degree by accidental fluctuations, orders declined by 11 per cent, with domestic orders rising by 3 per cent and foreign orders falling by 20 per cent. • JP Pumps Ltd, formerly Stork Pumps, has set up a specialist food division at its Crawley, UK head office. The company recently launched a new TopLobe rotary lobe pump targeted at the food sector. • By April 1999, KSB AG, Frankenthal will have supplied 37 process pumps and a comprehensive package of additional equipment to Taiwan's largest refinery in Mai-Lao. Designed to comply with API standards, the pumps are intended for a new butadiene extraction plant and will handle petroleum and liquefied gas. • Parker Hannifin expects its financial results for the second quarter ending 31 December 1998 to be lower than anticipated due to a significant decline in customer orders. In line with this reduction in orders, the company's diluted earnings per share are expected to be 10-15 per cent below the US$0.63 per diluted share reported last year.
ABS WINS FRENCH CONTRACT Finnish-based paper company UPM/Kymmene is expanding its activities in France. The subsidiary UPM/ Chapelles Darblay is to increase its deinking capacity from 200 000 t/a to 350 000 t/a, by building a third deinking line at the mill in, Grand Couronne. ABS pumps and agitators will be installed. After completion of the new line, the mill will use 100 per cent deinked waste paper to produce newsprint. The investment cost will be FFr524 million. The start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1999. Engineering will be carried out by the Finnish company Jakko POyry.
CONBRACO EXPANDS PRODUCT LINE Conbraco Industries Inc has signed agreements to acquire two St Louis-area manufacturers. Conbraco will purchase ProTech Valves and Controls Inc and AirTech Inc. ProTech manufactures butterfly valves and AirTech is a producer of actuators and accessories. Both companies' products are used in chemical, sanitary, transportation and general service applications. Based in Matthews, NC, Conbraco Industries is in its seventh decade as a full-line supplier of valves and flow control products. Conbraco manufactures more than 120 products under the Conbraco®, Apollo®, RP&C ® and IPG® brand names, and is most wellknown for its Apollo brand ball valves. ProTech butterfly valves range from 1.5 inches to 24 inches. The company manufactures general purpose
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valves, flanged valves, sanitary and chemical valves as well as 316 stainless steel valves up to 12 inches. Other varieties include high-flow valves, HVAC butterfly valves and transportation valves. AirTech's product line includes a complete line of pneumatic rack-and-pinion actuators, electric actuators and manual valve operators, plus a full range of accessories. Both the AirTech and ProTech manufacturing facilities will remain based in Missouri. Conbraco currently operates nearly 1.5 million square feet of ISO 9001-registered manufacturing space and maintains stocked local inventories through a network of selected distributors.
DOUBLE FIRST FOR WEIR Weir Pumps is to supply the mechanical package of the world's first 3.5 MW variable speed drive descaling pumpset. The contract was awarded by Danieli United for Nucor Steel's new Plate Mill in Hertford County, North Carolina, and is Weir's first success in the US domestic steel market. Dale Robertson, metals industry specialist with Weir Pumps, said: "This is a major breakthrough and by installing variable speed descale pumps, instead of conventional fixed speed units, energy costs are significantly reduced. The maintenance of the pumps is also drastically reduced and this should increase mill productivity and profits due to less down-time." Descaling is the most arduous pumping application in the world and high pressure pumps are used to remove the scale which forms on the surface of the steel slab during the manufacturing process. Descaling technology supplied by Weir helps to produce over 100 000 tonnes of strip steel per day worldwide.
STANDARD DISCOUNT FROM HI The Hydraulic Institute (HI) is offering its five newest standards bound with the latest 1994 edition of its 13 original HI Pump Standards in a discounted package. There will also be a free HI Engineering Data Book with orders placed for the newly combined 18-volume set. The five new standards are Centrifugal Pumps - Horizontal Baseplate Design; Pumps Polymer Materials Selection; Centrifugal and Vertical Pumps - Allowable Operating Region; Centrifugal and Vertical Pumps - NPSH Margin; and Pump Intake Design. The 13-volume 1994 edition of HI Pump Standards and the five new standards are available in text and CD-Rom formats and replace the 14th and all prior editions. They cover the full range of pump types, definitions, industry terminology, design and application, installation, operations and maintenance guidelines and HI's widely accepted test standards. Together, HI's five new standards, the HI Pump Standards' 1994 Edition and the free HI Engineering Data Book are valued at US$629. For a limited time, the new bundled package is available for US$495. To order, contact the HI on: Tel: +1 973 267 7772 Fax: +1 973 267 9055.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS FOR EUROPUMP Europump's General Secretariat is relocating to new offices in Brussels. From January, Guy van Doorslaer can be contacted at: Europump, Diamant Building, 80 Boulevard Reyers, 5th Floor, 1030 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 706 82 30 Fax: +32 2 706 79 88
• ABS has installed its 5 millionth pump worldwide. The submersible system from the AFP series, was installed in the new Frankfurt Hilton hotel. • According to the VDMA (the German Machinery and Plant Manufacturers' Association), October 1998 orders received by members declined by 5 per cent in real terms compared with last year. Domestic orders rose by 3 per cent and foreign orders fell by 10 per cent. In the three-month period August-October, which is influenced to a lesser degree by accidental fluctuations, orders declined by 11 per cent, with domestic orders rising by 3 per cent and foreign orders falling by 20 per cent. • JP Pumps Ltd, formerly Stork Pumps, has set up a specialist food division at its Crawley, UK head office. The company recently launched a new TopLobe rotary lobe pump targeted at the food sector. • By April 1999, KSB AG, Frankenthal will have supplied 37 process pumps and a comprehensive package of additional equipment to Taiwan's largest refinery in Mai-Lao. Designed to comply with API standards, the pumps are intended for a new butadiene extraction plant and will handle petroleum and liquefied gas. • Parker Hannifin expects its financial results for the second quarter ending 31 December 1998 to be lower than anticipated due to a significant decline in customer orders. In line with this reduction in orders, the company's diluted earnings per share are expected to be 10-15 per cent below the US$0.63 per diluted share reported last year.