EXTON, Pa. (Feb. 12, 2015) – NETZSCH Pumps North America, LLC recently expanded its sales force by hiring Mark Mintun as regional sales manager for the central region of the U.S. He is responsible for supporting the industrial and municipal distributors and EPC customers in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Mintun is based in Chesterfield, Missouri.

ERLANGEN, Germany (Feb. 11, 2015) – Siemens has been awarded an order by Electrogas Malta for the turnkey construction of a 200 megawatt (MW) natural-gas-fired combined cycle power plant (CCPP). The order value for Siemens is about EUR 175 million. The CCPP is part of a program of the government of Malta to phase out the use of heavy fuel oil and switch to the use of natural gas for power production.