(April 18, 2016) -- Val-Matic Valve & Manufacturing Corp. announced that John V. Ballun, executive vice president and chief operating officer will succeed Ted J. Makowan as president and CEO.
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (April 15, 2016) -- Yaskawa America Inc. (YAI) has announced the promotion of Mike Knapek, president and COO of the Drives & Motion Division, to the position of CEO.
Knapek takes over for Masahiro Ogawa, who has led Yaskawa’s Drives, Motion and Robotics business in the Americas for the past 5-1/2 years. Ogawa will return to Kurosaki, Japan, to take on the role of corporate vice president and general manager of Yaskawa’s global robotics business.
Preventive maintenance programs at refineries can result in reduced costs and better reliability.
HOUSTON (April 14, 2016) – Intertek, a provider of quality solutions to industries worldwide, has partnered with Pepperl+Fuchs to pilot its ETL Hazardous Locations Panel Program. The collaboration marks the first complete project under Intertek’s new hazardous areas panel shop certification offering.
Corrections can be a sustainable, cost-saving measure and should be considered by companies with a large installation of these types of motors.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (April 13, 2016) – The Water Environment Federation (WEF), the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) and the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF)—in partnership with the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW)—have announced the recipients of the 2016 Singapore International Water Week Scholarship (SIWWS):
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. and ATHLONE, Ireland (April 13, 2016) – The Dow Chemical Company announced its investment in OxyMem Ltd.
The investment will accelerate the commercialization of OxyMem’s promising wastewater treatment technology, the Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR). The MABR technology has the potential to bring wastewater treatment closer to energy neutrality by reducing energy consumption for aeration by up to 75 percent.
CAMBRIDGE, UK (April 13, 2016) -- AVEVA announced that BashNIPIneft LLC, a research and design institute for leading Russian oil and gas company Bashneft, has implemented AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) and AVEVA Laser Modeller.
