West Virginia (Oct. 15, 2015) – BridgeValley Community and Technical College in West Virginia celebrated the opening of a Process Training Unit (PTU) made possible by contributions from Endress+Hauser, BridgeValley and Rockwell Automation. BridgeValley will be the new home to a $1 million, 1,800 square-foot, state-of-the-art PTU.
SWARTZ CREEK, Mich. (Oct. 15, 2015) – TriTec Seal, LLC (TriTec), a portfolio company of Edgewater Capital Partners, has named Marcus Pillion as CEO. Pillion will be responsible for TriTec’s global strategic operations with a primary focus of expanding upon current seal thought leadership and overall company growth.
Isolation valves, centrifugal solids separators and clean-in-place connections improve thermal performance.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (Oct. 14, 2015) – Engineers at Oregon State University have developed a new “sustainable development methodology” to help address a social and regulatory demand for manufacturing processes that more effectively consider their economic, environmental and social impacts.
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (Oct. 14, 2015) – Grundfos has appointed Thomas Morrison as vice president of service and Rob Montenegro as vice president of municipal sales.
LONDON (Oct. 14 2015) – The future of manufacturing is defined by the Industry 4.0 paradigm, which will be singularly determined by the design, development and implementation of the Internet of Things.
IRVINE, Calif. (Oct. 14, 2015) – Intellian, a global player in satellite communication antenna systems, has been picked as the hardware partner on RigNet’s recently announced contract to provide remote communications solutions to a premium offshore driller across its entire global fleet of existing and new-build rigs.
BOSTON, Mass. (Oct. 13, 2015) – Since launching its 2010 Master Plan, Indonesia has amassed a sizable water infrastructure pipeline of 32 public-private partnerships (PPP) requiring more than US$2.5 billion of investment in a time of regulatory uncertainty.
Following a 10-year hiatus, during which no PPP projects were awarded in the country, two legal decisions in 2015 have shaken the country’s receptiveness to private water investment.
NEW YORK (13 October 2015)—Addressing attendees of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Kuwait Oil & Gas Show and Conference, BP CEO Bob Dudley spoke at length about the necessary exchange of technology between private and state-owned E&P companies that must take place for the Middle East to remain competitive in the global energy market. “With oil and gas becoming more difficult to extract, and low prices putting pressure on costs, the challenges may have grown,” he said.