LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. (May 20, 2014) – Honeywell announced it has appointed Sach Sankpal as president for Honeywell Safety Products, a part of the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions’ Life Safety business.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (May 20, 2014) – Simerics announced the launch of a redesigned and enhanced website. It has been created to provide a user-friendly experience with improved navigation and functionality throughout. The site includes an interactive experience for viewing the Simerics gallery and videos. It offers access to information on PumpLinx and SimericsMP capabilities as well as white papers and brochures.

SAN DIEGO (May 20, 2014) – Pentair announced that the Calmark and Birtcher products have been rebranded and integrated into its Schroff brand. Schroff offers a wide range of standard products including 19" cabinets, subracks, cases, backplanes, motherboards and microcomputer systems. Schroff became part of Pentair Technical Solutions, a global business unit of Pentair Ltd., in 1994.

ZURICH (May 19, 2014) – ABB has won contracts worth in excess of $20 million to supply electrical power and propulsion systems for two offshore vessels.

The first vessel, of ULSTEIN SX165 design, is being constructed at Ulstein Verft in Norway for Island Ventures 11, the joint venture set up in 2012 by the leading US and Norwegian owners Edison Chouest Offshore and Island Offshore, whose advanced subsea service vessels provide high quality solutions to the offshore oil industry.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 19, 2014) – Flygt has started crisscrossing the country with 24- and 12-foot long mobile display units (MDUs) equipped with informative exhibits of the manufacturer’s solutions for water and wastewater systems. The larger mobile showroom features equipment marketed by Flygt and Godwin, a companion line of pumps also owned by Xylem, Inc.

(May 19, 2014)—Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the receipt of an order from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. to supply control systems, safety instrumented systems, analysis systems and other products for Stage-1 of the Jeddah South supercritical oil-fired thermal power plant project in Saudi Arabia. The joint order recipients are Yokogawa Electric and a subsidiary, Yokogawa Middle East & Africa B.S.C.(c).

ERLANGEN, Germany (May 19, 2014) – A consortium comprising of Siemens AG, Siemens Ltd. Thailand and the Japanese partner Marubeni has completed the Wang Noi 4 combined cycle power plant in Thailand on schedule. The owner, the state-owned utility Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), took the power plant into commercial operation on April 7, 2014. The natural gas fired power plant features an efficiency of over 57.3 percent with an electrical capacity of 770 megawatts (MW).

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 19, 2014) – In an important victory for U.S. water utilities and their customers, a House-Senate committee has released legislation to create a pilot Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority that would lower the cost of renewing America’s aging water infrastructure.