HARRISON, Ohio - The TASI Group recently acquired ONICON, a private company specializing in the design and manufacture of flow meters and energy measurement systems. ONICON addresses liquid flow, steam flow, natural gas flow, airflow, and thermal energy applications with a broad range of flow meter technologies, including electromagnetic, turbine, ultrasonic, thermal mass, vortex, Pitot tube and BTU meters. Through its own acquisitions, ONICON offers six brands including:

MAIDSTONE, U.K. - Pete McMutrie has been appointed as Sales Director of Obart Pumps Ltd. McMutrie joins Obart from a major distributor of construction equipment, where for 20 years he was the national and key account sales manager for many high profile customers in the UK and across Europe. He was responsible for selling construction and ground-care products for global brands such as Honda, Stihl, Husqvarna, Saint Gobain , Yanmar , JCB and many other well-known manufacturers.

BOSTON – The International Desalination Association (IDA) has awarded its Channabasappa Memorial Scholarship to Mr. Enzo Rene García-Bartolomei of Chile for the 2019/2020 academic year. The Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization (ISDMU), SOA (Tianjin, China), is co-sponsoring the 2019/2020 scholarship through a matching contribution to the IDA Sustainable Water Resources Foundation (SWRF), which will issue a $5,000 USD matching grant.