Grundfos Upgrade Program promotes higher efficiency pumps

Grundfos Upgrade Program promotes higher efficiency pumps

NEWS Grundfos Upgrade Program promotes higher efficiency pumps G rundfos Pumps Corp has launched an initiative to replace old, low-efficiency pumps...

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Grundfos Upgrade Program promotes higher efficiency pumps

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rundfos Pumps Corp has launched an initiative to replace old, low-efficiency pumps with new, higher-efficiency pumps. The Upgrade Program, which is designed to increase business in the short-run, will give users the opportunity to purchase a higher efficiency pump at a discounted price, and replace lower-performing pumps with an energy-conserving solution. “The program is not limited to only replacing other manufacturers’ pumps,” said market development manager Edward Smiley. “Older Grundfos models in some of the categories will qualify as well, providing widespread benefit to the marketplace. We are offering an unprecedented incentive to upgrade old technology to new, while at the same time improving the customer’s use of energy.” The Upgrade Program covers pumps for industrial and commercial building applications, as well as machine tool, vertical multistage, ANSI and dosing pumps. The program will continue until 16 December 2009. For further information, visit www.grundfos.us

ITT Flowtronex launches “Cash for Pumpers” program

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ollowing the highly successful “Cash for Clunkers” automobile program in the US, ITT Flowtronex is offering a 10% factory-direct cash rebate for the replacement of old and inefficient irrigation pump systems. For a limited time, the new “Cash for Pumpers” program will allow customers to replace pump equipment that has been in service for 15 years or more with a new Flowtronex Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) Silent Storm packaged pump system. The Silent Storm pump systems are used on 78 of the top 100 golf courses in the US and in more than 72 countries worldwide. “With the help of our Sponsoring Partners, The ‘Cash for Pumpers’ program creates a unique 16

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opportunity for budget-strained owners and operators to save significant money on both energy and water costs while getting cash back on their old equipment,” said Boyd Rose, Flowtronex business manager for Turf Irrigation. The offer applies to all qualifying equipment in North America. For further information, visit www.itt.com and www.flowtronex.net

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GEA streamlines group structure

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EA Group AG will have a new structure in place from 1 January 2010. Under the new structure, the existing nine divisions, which are reported as two segments, will be regrouped into five segments: GEA Farm Technologies; GEA Heat Exchangers; GEA Mechanical Equipment; GEA Process Engineering and GEA Refrigeration Technologies. The GEA Mechanical Equipment segment will include centrifuges, pumps, homogenizers and valves mainly for food & beverage and industrial applications, with Hildemar Böhm as president. The GEA Process Engineering segment provides stand alone installations and processing lines mainly for the food industry, but also for pharmaceutical, chemical and other industrial applications. The segment includes air treatment filters and will be headed up by Anders Wilhjelm. GEA says that this new segmentation by products and solutions is the best suited approach to enhance further organic growth and integrate future acquisitions. “The current divisional management structure, largely unaltered since 1997, had created too much product overlap during the rapid organic growth and acquisitions of the recent years, especially in the area of heat exchangers which represent over a third of GEA’s sales,” said GEA CEO Jürg Oleas. “This reorganization is aimed at rationalizing the manufacturing and related activities and promoting in general lean structures in the Heat Exchanger Segment. The elimination of overlap will also help our sales force and engineers to better focus on specific customer needs, that is to realize efficiency in their food and energy production processes,” added Oleas. For further information, visit www.geagroup.com

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