CHICAGO — John Crane, in partnership with Al-Ahed Trading and Contracting Co., today announced the opening of Qatar’s first dry gas seal and testing facility.

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.

STOCKTON, Calif. - Mike Lassas has been named to the position of President of Proco Products, Inc. effective May 1, 2019.

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.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Dustin Davis has been named the midwest regional sales manager for RDI Technologies.

Davis has been in the predictive maintenance industry for more than 16 years. He started his career as a field service technician, then made his way to vibration analyst, reliability consulting engineer, and most recently a business development manager. Davis has a “customer-centric” mentality and firsthand knowledge and experience of the benefits that this technology offers.