MANCHESTER, Conn. (Feb. 20, 2014) – Lydall, Inc. announced that it has acquired the industrial filtration businesses (Andrew Filtration) of Andrew Industries Limited, an Altham, UK-based corporation, for $83 million in cash. The transaction strengthens Lydall's capacity as a provider of filtration and engineered materials products and diversifies its end markets and geographic revenue base.

YOUNGSVILLE, N.C. (Feb. 19, 2014) – Xerium Technologies, Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday for its new press felt manufacturing facility in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China.

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (Feb. 4, 2014) – Nominations are open for the third annual Heart of Industry Awards and Pulse of Industry Honor Roll. These recognition programs were developed as part of Pump Appreciation Day – a worldwide celebration of pumps as the heart of industry that will take place Tuesday, April 8, sponsored by ITT Corporation’s Goulds Pumps, PRO Services and Bornemann brands.

LONDON (Feb. 18, 2014) – The manufacturing sector has traditionally implemented a range of wired networks to automate plant floor operations. However, emerging machine-to-machine (M2M) systems such as short-range wireless and long-range cellular networks are evolving into choice solutions for factories of the future.

BALTIMORE (Feb. 6, 2014) – Danfoss announced it is seeking entries for its fifth annual EnVisioneer of the Year award competition.

(Feb. 17, 2014) – Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it received an order from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. to supply the control system for an LNG carrier that is being built for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia.

(Feb. 17, 2014) – The company formed by the 2009 merger of FW Murphy, Tulsa, Okla., and EControls, San Antonio, Texas, took another step in its development by changing its name to Enovation Controls to reflect the now fully integrated company.

DAVISON, Mich. (Feb. 17, 2014) – Global Pump announced the appointment of Victor Krotikov as its European Union/Commonwealth of Independent States (EU/CIS) Business Development Manager.

Krotikov joins Global Pump with vast experience in business development and sales in Eastern European and former USSR countries.

WILMINGTON, Del. (Feb. 11, 2014) – DuPont Fluoropolymer Solutions announced that Underwriters Laboratory Inc. (UL) has certified DuPont ECCtreme ECA 3000 perfluoroplastic resin with a 300 degrees Celsius rating for a minimum thickness of 0.75 millimeters in the UL Plastics Online Certification Directory. The new rating is based on UL mechanical, electrical, and fire performance testing.