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John Crane expands service footprint in Belgium and Azerbaijan
NEWS Previous acquisitions for the group have included The Multiple Fabric Company in 1997 and P&S Textiles in 2000. For further information, visit www.arville.com and www.deltafilterservices.co.uk
SPX Flow appoints new Food & Beverage channel partner in Egypt
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PX Flow has named Petroconsult as a new channel partner for its Food & Beverage and hygienic applications business in Egypt. Cairo-headquartered Petroconsult already supports the SPX Flow ClydeUnion Pumps, Bran+Luebbe and Johnson Pump brands across the oil, gas and petrochemical sector in the region. Now, a new Petroconsult subsidiary will provide additional support for Anhydro, APV, Gerstenberg Schröder, Seital Separation and Waukesha Cherry-Burrell brands. “This new partnership will offer tremendous benefits to our customers in the dairy, food & beverage and other hygienic processing industries in the region with enhanced local support and rapid spares deliveries,” said Tom Cork, channel manager at SPX Flow. “Petroconsult has a strong presence in Egypt, with multiple warehouse facilities. It will hold local stock of many common parts and components as well as acting as a distributor for APV, Seital Separation and WCB product lines.” Petroconsult’s warehouse facilities are located in Alexandria’s free trade zone, enabling the company to serve a wider region, including Jordan and Libya, without additional import/export duties. Hazem Elleithy, CEO of Petroconsult, said: “This is an exciting diversification for our business. We already have a long and successful relationship with SPX Flow for
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its process pumps and have the logistical network in place to serve the sanitary business sectors with the additional product ranges. Alongside rapid delivery of products and components, we will be developing a service network into 2020 to support SPX Flow customers across Egypt.” The new Petroconsult partnership with SPX Flow will operate alongside existing sales agents in the Middle East, including CT Group of Egypt. SPX recently appointed a new channel partner in South Australia for its APV and Waukesha Cherry-Burrell (WCB) product lines (see Filtration Industry Analyst, October 2019). For further information, visit www.spxflow.com
H2O Innovation completes Genesys acquisition
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2O Innovation Inc has acquired Genesys Holdings Ltd, Genesys Manufacturing Ltd, Genesys International Ltd and Genesys North America LLC, the UK privately-owned group of companies that develops, manufactures and distributes speciality reverse osmosis (RO) membrane chemicals, antiscalants, cleaners, flocculants and biocides (see Filtration Industry Analyst, October 2019). Genesys has a portfolio of over 35 diversified products that are manufactured at its facility in Cheshire, UK. The company also offers laboratory services such as feed water and pre-treatment tests, membrane autopsies and cleaning program design. “Whilst there was a significant level of interest in our business, we chose H2O Innovation as it became apparent, they were the perfect partner and ultimately represented the right home for our business and more importantly our employees. H2O Innovation will
maintain the family feel that Genesys has developed by looking after its staff and distributors. As there are significant areas of synergy for both companies, we fully endorse the acquisition knowing it will be highly beneficial to all those involved,” said Ursula Annunziata, director and co-founder of Genesys. The purchase price was £16.95 million (C$28.39 million). For further information, visit www.h2oinnovation.com and www.genesysro.com
John Crane expands service footprint in Belgium and Azerbaijan
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ealing specialist John Crane has opened a new service centre in Antwerp, Belgium and moved to a larger facility in Baku, Azerbaijan. Located close to the Port of Antwerp, the new Belgian service centre enhances John Crane’s local service and support network for OEM and end user customers serving oil and gas, power generation, chemical, pharmaceutical production, and general industry markets. “With its strategic proximity to the Port of Antwerp, this new facility enables us to provide effective and efficient operations for our customers through the reduction of downtime costs and service repairs for mechanical seals, sealing systems, couplings and filtration systems,” said Ruben Alvarez, John Crane executive vice president, Sales and Aftermarket. “This service centre also allows us to support a long-term growth vision by investing in local infrastructure and continuing to develop our talent.” “The performance and functionality of our customers’ operations depend on us for a highly responsive service to increase uptime, reduce maintenance
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Financial Calendar 3 December 2019 Donaldson Q1 2020 Earnings 5 December 2019 Alfa Laval Capital Markets Day, Malmö, Sweden 6 December 2019 Weir Capital Markets Day 2019, Venlo, the Netherlands 10 December 2019 Voith 2019 Financial Figures 12 December 2019 Amiad Annual General Meeting, London, UK January 2020 Sartorius Preliminary Results for Fiscal 2019 28 January 2020 Atlas Copco Q4 2019 Report February 2020 Sartorius Annual Press Conference, Goettingen, Germany 4 February 2020 Alfa Laval Q4 2019 Report 5 February 2020 Valmet 2019 Financial Statements Review 13 February 2020 Ahlstrom-Munksjö 2019 Financial Statements 14 February 2020 Nederman Financial Statement 2019 4 March 2020 Andritz 2019 Results Evonik Q4 2019 Report 11 March 2020 Lanxess FY 2019 Results 17 March 2020 GEA 2019 Annual Report Published 19 March 2020 Valmet Annual General Meeting, Helsinki, Finland 25 March 2020 Ahlstrom-Munksjö Annual General Meeting, Helsinki, Finland Andritz Annual General Meeting 26 March 2020 Sartorius Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting April 2020 Sartorius Q1 2020 Results 21 April 2020 Nederman Interim Report January–March 2020 23 April 2020 Ahlstrom-Munksjö Interim Report January–March 2020 Alfa Laval Q1 2020 Report and Annual General Meeting Atlas Copco Q1 2020 Report and Annual General Meeting 2020, Solna, Sweden Valmet Interim Review for January–March 2020
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costs whenever possible and help them maintain environmentally safe operations,” said Sébastian Proença, general manager John Crane France & Belgium. “As part of our commitment to them, we are making it our mission to strengthen our service capabilities around the world and strategically build out our strong global footprint of more than 200 facilities.” Meanwhile in Baku, Azerbaijan, John Crane has relocated its service centre to a larger facility in the city. The new Baku service centre is twice the size of the previous facility and enhances John Crane’s local service and support network for OEM and end user customers in the oil and gas, power generation, chemical, mining, and food and beverage markets. It will also allow John Crane to support customers in Georgia and Uzbekistan. “John Crane has been supporting energy sector companies in Baku for more than a decade,” said Aziz Sallie, managing director, John Crane Middle East and Africa. “Our continuous investment in local capabilities, along with the request from customers for increased local support with a higher level of technology and service differentiation, clearly marked our strategy to commit to this investment. The move to a larger facility is a testament to the business growth and customer relationships we have established here and allows us to support our long-term growth vision by continuing to invest in local infrastructure and talent.” Already this year, John Crane has moved to a new, larger service centre in Livorno, Italy, opened a super service centre in Pune, India, expanded in the APAC region with a service centre in Yeosu, South Korea and opened Qatar’s first dry gas seal repair and test facility in Ras Laffan. At the start of 2019, John Crane also announced the opening of a new service centre in Shannon, Ireland. For further information, visit www.johncrane.com
Xylem supports Manchester City’s Cityzens Giving safe water project
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ylem Inc is partnering with Manchester City Football Club’s
Cityzens Giving annual charitable campaign which helps young leaders around the world change lives through football. Now in its’ sixth year, Cityzens Giving sees City Football Group and its partners donate £400 000 to six community football projects. Over a six-week campaign, Manchester City fans will hear from the young leaders in each of the six projects and will vote for their preferred cause at mancity.com/ cityzensgiving. The more votes a project gets, the greater the funding it will receive. Xylem is supporting a new safe water project in Cape Coast, Ghana, as one of the six initiatives in the campaign. The project, “Kicking for Change,” will combine football, safe water education and equipment to provide clean water access to schools and communities to help prevent waterborne illnesses and keep children in school. The project will use football to teach children about life-saving water and sanitation education, keeping them healthy and in school, and will be combined with a new clean water source in the community. This project is delivered in partnership with Play Soccer Ghana and is supported by Xylem. “Xylem is committed to raising awareness of global water challenges and our partnership with Cityzens Giving for this project will provide a powerful opportunity to share in a community commitment to solving water,” said Joseph Vesey, Xylem SVP and chief marketing officer. “We look forward to watching the votes and to moving forward on a great initiative for the youth of Cape Coast, Ghana, to help advance education for young girls, water security and work towards a more sustainable future.” Last year, a safe water project in Bangalore, supported by Xylem, secured the most votes, and received the largest grant of the £400 000 in funding (see Filtration Industry Analyst, November 2018 and February 2019). Xylem entered into a global multi-year partnership with Manchester City in 2018 to become the football club’s official water technology partner (see Filtration Industry Analyst, July 2018). For further information, visit www.xylem.com, www.xylemwatermark.com and www.mancity.com/cityzensgiving
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SPX Flow appoints new Food & Beverage channel partner in Egypt
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PX Flow has named Petroconsult as a new channel partner for its Food & Beverage and hygienic applications business in Egypt. Cairo-headquartered Petroconsult already supports the SPX Flow ClydeUnion Pumps, Bran+Luebbe and Johnson Pump brands across the oil, gas and petrochemical sector in the region. Now, a new Petroconsult subsidiary will provide additional support for Anhydro, APV, Gerstenberg Schröder, Seital Separation and Waukesha Cherry-Burrell brands. “This new partnership will offer tremendous benefits to our customers in the dairy, food & beverage and other hygienic processing industries in the region with enhanced local support and rapid spares deliveries,” said Tom Cork, channel manager at SPX Flow. “Petroconsult has a strong presence in Egypt, with multiple warehouse facilities. It will hold local stock of many common parts and components as well as acting as a distributor for APV, Seital Separation and WCB product lines.” Petroconsult’s warehouse facilities are located in Alexandria’s free trade zone, enabling the company to serve a wider region, including Jordan and Libya, without additional import/export duties. Hazem Elleithy, CEO of Petroconsult, said: “This is an exciting diversification for our business. We already have a long and successful relationship with SPX Flow for
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its process pumps and have the logistical network in place to serve the sanitary business sectors with the additional product ranges. Alongside rapid delivery of products and components, we will be developing a service network into 2020 to support SPX Flow customers across Egypt.” The new Petroconsult partnership with SPX Flow will operate alongside existing sales agents in the Middle East, including CT Group of Egypt. SPX recently appointed a new channel partner in South Australia for its APV and Waukesha Cherry-Burrell (WCB) product lines (see Filtration Industry Analyst, October 2019). For further information, visit www.spxflow.com
H2O Innovation completes Genesys acquisition
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2O Innovation Inc has acquired Genesys Holdings Ltd, Genesys Manufacturing Ltd, Genesys International Ltd and Genesys North America LLC, the UK privately-owned group of companies that develops, manufactures and distributes speciality reverse osmosis (RO) membrane chemicals, antiscalants, cleaners, flocculants and biocides (see Filtration Industry Analyst, October 2019). Genesys has a portfolio of over 35 diversified products that are manufactured at its facility in Cheshire, UK. The company also offers laboratory services such as feed water and pre-treatment tests, membrane autopsies and cleaning program design. “Whilst there was a significant level of interest in our business, we chose H2O Innovation as it became apparent, they were the perfect partner and ultimately represented the right home for our business and more importantly our employees. H2O Innovation will
maintain the family feel that Genesys has developed by looking after its staff and distributors. As there are significant areas of synergy for both companies, we fully endorse the acquisition knowing it will be highly beneficial to all those involved,” said Ursula Annunziata, director and co-founder of Genesys. The purchase price was £16.95 million (C$28.39 million). For further information, visit www.h2oinnovation.com and www.genesysro.com
John Crane expands service footprint in Belgium and Azerbaijan
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ealing specialist John Crane has opened a new service centre in Antwerp, Belgium and moved to a larger facility in Baku, Azerbaijan. Located close to the Port of Antwerp, the new Belgian service centre enhances John Crane’s local service and support network for OEM and end user customers serving oil and gas, power generation, chemical, pharmaceutical production, and general industry markets. “With its strategic proximity to the Port of Antwerp, this new facility enables us to provide effective and efficient operations for our customers through the reduction of downtime costs and service repairs for mechanical seals, sealing systems, couplings and filtration systems,” said Ruben Alvarez, John Crane executive vice president, Sales and Aftermarket. “This service centre also allows us to support a long-term growth vision by investing in local infrastructure and continuing to develop our talent.” “The performance and functionality of our customers’ operations depend on us for a highly responsive service to increase uptime, reduce maintenance
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CALENDAR/NEWS
Financial Calendar 3 December 2019 Donaldson Q1 2020 Earnings 5 December 2019 Alfa Laval Capital Markets Day, Malmö, Sweden 6 December 2019 Weir Capital Markets Day 2019, Venlo, the Netherlands 10 December 2019 Voith 2019 Financial Figures 12 December 2019 Amiad Annual General Meeting, London, UK January 2020 Sartorius Preliminary Results for Fiscal 2019 28 January 2020 Atlas Copco Q4 2019 Report February 2020 Sartorius Annual Press Conference, Goettingen, Germany 4 February 2020 Alfa Laval Q4 2019 Report 5 February 2020 Valmet 2019 Financial Statements Review 13 February 2020 Ahlstrom-Munksjö 2019 Financial Statements 14 February 2020 Nederman Financial Statement 2019 4 March 2020 Andritz 2019 Results Evonik Q4 2019 Report 11 March 2020 Lanxess FY 2019 Results 17 March 2020 GEA 2019 Annual Report Published 19 March 2020 Valmet Annual General Meeting, Helsinki, Finland 25 March 2020 Ahlstrom-Munksjö Annual General Meeting, Helsinki, Finland Andritz Annual General Meeting 26 March 2020 Sartorius Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting April 2020 Sartorius Q1 2020 Results 21 April 2020 Nederman Interim Report January–March 2020 23 April 2020 Ahlstrom-Munksjö Interim Report January–March 2020 Alfa Laval Q1 2020 Report and Annual General Meeting Atlas Copco Q1 2020 Report and Annual General Meeting 2020, Solna, Sweden Valmet Interim Review for January–March 2020
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costs whenever possible and help them maintain environmentally safe operations,” said Sébastian Proença, general manager John Crane France & Belgium. “As part of our commitment to them, we are making it our mission to strengthen our service capabilities around the world and strategically build out our strong global footprint of more than 200 facilities.” Meanwhile in Baku, Azerbaijan, John Crane has relocated its service centre to a larger facility in the city. The new Baku service centre is twice the size of the previous facility and enhances John Crane’s local service and support network for OEM and end user customers in the oil and gas, power generation, chemical, mining, and food and beverage markets. It will also allow John Crane to support customers in Georgia and Uzbekistan. “John Crane has been supporting energy sector companies in Baku for more than a decade,” said Aziz Sallie, managing director, John Crane Middle East and Africa. “Our continuous investment in local capabilities, along with the request from customers for increased local support with a higher level of technology and service differentiation, clearly marked our strategy to commit to this investment. The move to a larger facility is a testament to the business growth and customer relationships we have established here and allows us to support our long-term growth vision by continuing to invest in local infrastructure and talent.” Already this year, John Crane has moved to a new, larger service centre in Livorno, Italy, opened a super service centre in Pune, India, expanded in the APAC region with a service centre in Yeosu, South Korea and opened Qatar’s first dry gas seal repair and test facility in Ras Laffan. At the start of 2019, John Crane also announced the opening of a new service centre in Shannon, Ireland. For further information, visit www.johncrane.com
Xylem supports Manchester City’s Cityzens Giving safe water project
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ylem Inc is partnering with Manchester City Football Club’s
Cityzens Giving annual charitable campaign which helps young leaders around the world change lives through football. Now in its’ sixth year, Cityzens Giving sees City Football Group and its partners donate £400 000 to six community football projects. Over a six-week campaign, Manchester City fans will hear from the young leaders in each of the six projects and will vote for their preferred cause at mancity.com/ cityzensgiving. The more votes a project gets, the greater the funding it will receive. Xylem is supporting a new safe water project in Cape Coast, Ghana, as one of the six initiatives in the campaign. The project, “Kicking for Change,” will combine football, safe water education and equipment to provide clean water access to schools and communities to help prevent waterborne illnesses and keep children in school. The project will use football to teach children about life-saving water and sanitation education, keeping them healthy and in school, and will be combined with a new clean water source in the community. This project is delivered in partnership with Play Soccer Ghana and is supported by Xylem. “Xylem is committed to raising awareness of global water challenges and our partnership with Cityzens Giving for this project will provide a powerful opportunity to share in a community commitment to solving water,” said Joseph Vesey, Xylem SVP and chief marketing officer. “We look forward to watching the votes and to moving forward on a great initiative for the youth of Cape Coast, Ghana, to help advance education for young girls, water security and work towards a more sustainable future.” Last year, a safe water project in Bangalore, supported by Xylem, secured the most votes, and received the largest grant of the £400 000 in funding (see Filtration Industry Analyst, November 2018 and February 2019). Xylem entered into a global multi-year partnership with Manchester City in 2018 to become the football club’s official water technology partner (see Filtration Industry Analyst, July 2018). For further information, visit www.xylem.com, www.xylemwatermark.com and www.mancity.com/cityzensgiving
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