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Textron buys KSB’s French oil & energy division Textron has acquired KSB Annecy in France, a subsidiary of the KSB group. The Annecy factory designs and manufactures pumps for the oil and gas industry, as well as pumps for nuclear power plants. Textron will market the acquired product line under the brand David Brown Guinard pumps. Serving markets in Europe, North Africa and Asia, these
pumps complement the David Brown and Union ranges of pumps for the oil and gas industry. In addition, Textron will benefit from additional manufacturing capacity and a new line of multiphase subsea completion pumps, a market sector in which Textron anticipates solid growth. KSB had already announced its intention to withdraw from the
KSB Anne+ 1998 revenues were approximately US$40 million. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. KSB first acquired Pompes Guinard in 1986.
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Wastewater success for Weir Pumps
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Weir Pumps is to supply 31 of its new range of Swallowglide horizontal pumps to Hull wastewater treatment works in the UK, under a contract awarded by Kvaerner Water. Worth 5350 000, it is the biggest contract success to-date for the new range. The pumping station is being built to service the wastewater needs of the city of Hull and its surrounding catchment area in the north-east of England. It will incorporate the sequence batch reactor (SBR) process, based on an American design for wastewater treatment. Polymer
Weir’s package includes four intermediate pumps, which will be used to transfer the wastewater from the settling tanks to the SBR tanks. They will each operate at 2400 m3/h at 7 m head. 24 SBR recirculation pumps (four per tank) will operate at 965 m3/h at 10 m head. Three desludge pumps will then take the sludge from the bottom of the SBR tanks to storage tanks. Weir’s new modular end-suction design offers high operational efficiency combined with excellent solids handling.
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New force in high-performance Saint-Gobain (Paris, France) has combined the operations of its Norton Performance Plastics subsidiary with recently acquired Furon Company to create a new business unit, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics. The new unit will be headquartered in Wayne, NJ, USA, will employ 5400 people worldwide, and is expected to have
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oil extraction, transportation and refinery markets - with the exception of India and Brazil. In those two countries, KSB will provide distribution support for Textron products.
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PUMPS
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2000
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annual sales worth around US$830 million. Both subsidiaries specialized in performance polymers andhi:: new division’s product portfolio will include ultrapure fluidhandling systems; hose and tubing; medical devices for fluid control and delivery; films, tapes, coated fabrics and release liners; flexible foams for sealing, mounting and vibration damping.
Frank Hansen, president and chief executive officer of Idex Corporation has announced that his decision to retire. Hansen, 58, has been with the company for 24 years and was named president in 1998. He will remain in his present roles until a replacement has been selected. Pentair Carp has named a new president and chief operating officer. Randall Hogan, 44, has been elected president and COO with effect from December 1, 1999. Winslow Buxton remains chairman and chief executive officer. Hogan was formerly an executive at both United Technologies’ Carrier Transcold Division and General Electric before joining Pentair as an executive vice president and president of the Electrical and Electronic Enclosures group in March 1998.
Marty Organ has been appointed as marketing supervisor for Alfa Lava1 Flow Inc. He was previously senior marketing communication specialist for the company. Alfa Lava1 Flow has also appointed David Kirk as inside sales manager for the Sanitary Flow Division.
Conoco to invest on the Humber Conoco has announced a 5700 million investment programme for its Humber refinery in the UK during the plant’s 30th anniversary celebrations. The ten-year plan includes 590 million on new units to produce clean fuels and &250 million on an advanced combined heat and power plant to meet the refinery’s future energy needs. The clean fuels initiative will produce ultra-low sulphur petrol and diesel fuels, many of the components of which are presently imported into the UK. The refinery at South Killingholme on the east coast of Britain was first established in 1969, in advance of the discovery of North Sea oil but ideally placed to benefit from it. Humber has recently become Conoco’s first refinery accredited to the international environmental standard ISO14001. lndia contract
LPG pumps for Indian pipeline David Brown Union Pumps has won an order worth more than US$7 million to supply pumping equipment to India. 12 multi-stage DB36 barrel-casing pumps will be supplied to operate on a new LPG pipeline. The contract represents the biggest order ever placed by the Gas Authority of India for pumps of this type. The API610 pumps will be located at four pumping stations along a 1250 km pipeline which stretches from Jamnagar on the north-west coast to Loni, near Delhi. Each pump is rated to run at 3600 rpm, is capable of pumping 323 m3/h and is driven by a 1 MW electric motor.
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Textron buys KSB’s French oil & energy division Textron has acquired KSB Annecy in France, a subsidiary of the KSB group. The Annecy factory designs and manufactures pumps for the oil and gas industry, as well as pumps for nuclear power plants. Textron will market the acquired product line under the brand David Brown Guinard pumps. Serving markets in Europe, North Africa and Asia, these
pumps complement the David Brown and Union ranges of pumps for the oil and gas industry. In addition, Textron will benefit from additional manufacturing capacity and a new line of multiphase subsea completion pumps, a market sector in which Textron anticipates solid growth. KSB had already announced its intention to withdraw from the
KSB Anne+ 1998 revenues were approximately US$40 million. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. KSB first acquired Pompes Guinard in 1986.
Contract
Personnel
Wastewater success for Weir Pumps
People movements
Weir Pumps is to supply 31 of its new range of Swallowglide horizontal pumps to Hull wastewater treatment works in the UK, under a contract awarded by Kvaerner Water. Worth 5350 000, it is the biggest contract success to-date for the new range. The pumping station is being built to service the wastewater needs of the city of Hull and its surrounding catchment area in the north-east of England. It will incorporate the sequence batch reactor (SBR) process, based on an American design for wastewater treatment. Polymer
Weir’s package includes four intermediate pumps, which will be used to transfer the wastewater from the settling tanks to the SBR tanks. They will each operate at 2400 m3/h at 7 m head. 24 SBR recirculation pumps (four per tank) will operate at 965 m3/h at 10 m head. Three desludge pumps will then take the sludge from the bottom of the SBR tanks to storage tanks. Weir’s new modular end-suction design offers high operational efficiency combined with excellent solids handling.
unit
New force in high-performance Saint-Gobain (Paris, France) has combined the operations of its Norton Performance Plastics subsidiary with recently acquired Furon Company to create a new business unit, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics. The new unit will be headquartered in Wayne, NJ, USA, will employ 5400 people worldwide, and is expected to have
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oil extraction, transportation and refinery markets - with the exception of India and Brazil. In those two countries, KSB will provide distribution support for Textron products.
WORLD
PUMPS
January
2000
polymers
annual sales worth around US$830 million. Both subsidiaries specialized in performance polymers andhi:: new division’s product portfolio will include ultrapure fluidhandling systems; hose and tubing; medical devices for fluid control and delivery; films, tapes, coated fabrics and release liners; flexible foams for sealing, mounting and vibration damping.
Frank Hansen, president and chief executive officer of Idex Corporation has announced that his decision to retire. Hansen, 58, has been with the company for 24 years and was named president in 1998. He will remain in his present roles until a replacement has been selected. Pentair Carp has named a new president and chief operating officer. Randall Hogan, 44, has been elected president and COO with effect from December 1, 1999. Winslow Buxton remains chairman and chief executive officer. Hogan was formerly an executive at both United Technologies’ Carrier Transcold Division and General Electric before joining Pentair as an executive vice president and president of the Electrical and Electronic Enclosures group in March 1998.
Marty Organ has been appointed as marketing supervisor for Alfa Lava1 Flow Inc. He was previously senior marketing communication specialist for the company. Alfa Lava1 Flow has also appointed David Kirk as inside sales manager for the Sanitary Flow Division.
Conoco to invest on the Humber Conoco has announced a 5700 million investment programme for its Humber refinery in the UK during the plant’s 30th anniversary celebrations. The ten-year plan includes 590 million on new units to produce clean fuels and &250 million on an advanced combined heat and power plant to meet the refinery’s future energy needs. The clean fuels initiative will produce ultra-low sulphur petrol and diesel fuels, many of the components of which are presently imported into the UK. The refinery at South Killingholme on the east coast of Britain was first established in 1969, in advance of the discovery of North Sea oil but ideally placed to benefit from it. Humber has recently become Conoco’s first refinery accredited to the international environmental standard ISO14001. lndia contract
LPG pumps for Indian pipeline David Brown Union Pumps has won an order worth more than US$7 million to supply pumping equipment to India. 12 multi-stage DB36 barrel-casing pumps will be supplied to operate on a new LPG pipeline. The contract represents the biggest order ever placed by the Gas Authority of India for pumps of this type. The API610 pumps will be located at four pumping stations along a 1250 km pipeline which stretches from Jamnagar on the north-west coast to Loni, near Delhi. Each pump is rated to run at 3600 rpm, is capable of pumping 323 m3/h and is driven by a 1 MW electric motor.
www.worldpumps.com