OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. (Feb. 10, 2016) – PSG has appointed Steve Basclain to business development manager for PSG Ebsray. In this role, Basclain will help drive new business opportunities for the Ebsray brand and support the PSG Sales teams globally while directing the functional areas of applications engineering, customer care, contracts, product management and aftermarket. He will report directly to John Cosgrove, general manager for PSG Ebsray.

CENTER HARBOR, N.H. (Feb. 9, 2016) – Smartware Group, Inc. and Technology Evaluation Centers, Inc. (TEC) has released the results of a comprehensive survey of U.S. manufacturers and their usage of computerized maintenance and management system (CMMS) and enterprise asset management (EAM) software. According to the survey, 34 percent of respondents stated they aren’t capturing operational asset data at all.

LOS ANGELES and DALLAS (Feb. 9, 2016) – OriginClear Inc. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Progressive Water Treatment Inc. (PWT), was awarded a key contract, valued at about $700,000, for upgrading and expanding a large boiler feedwater treatment system at a power plant in the Northeast. In the upgrade, a modern ultrafiltration pretreatment system will feed both an existing and an expanded reverse osmosis system.

Industry leaders voiced their thoughts about 2016—what is important, what trends we should watch for, what is new in the market. Here are some of those remarks, as selected by our editorial team.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 8, 2016) – DC Water and the Water Environment Federation (WEF) have signed an agreement to develop a National Green Infrastructure Certification Program aimed at promoting skilled individuals who will install, inspect, and maintain green infrastructure (GI) systems. In addition, the program will help support community-based job creation in U.S. cities and establish national standards for professionals seeking to work on GI projects.