BATAVIA, N.Y. (April 4, 2013) – Graham Corporation was awarded five orders totaling $12 million during its fourth quarter which ended March 31, 2013. The projects are expected to ship at various times from the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014 through the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015.

HOUSTON (April 10, 2013) – Wood Group GTS was awarded a $11.2 million contract to re-rate one of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP’s) Hitachi hydro turbine generators at the Castaic Power Plant, a pumped storage facility 50 miles north of Los Angeles. This contract will complete the upgrade of the sixth and final turbine generator, undertaken as part of the Castaic Power Plant modernization program.
 

TREVOSE, Pa. (April 11, 2013) – GE announced the commissioning of its high-performance LEAPmbr* membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology at a wastewater treatment plant owned by the Spanish poultry processing firm, Procavi S.L. GE’s LEAPmbr technology will help Procavi improve water quality and double its water treatment capacity without expanding the existing facility. This is the first industrial LEAPmbr installation in Spain.

NEWNAN, Ga. (April 12, 2013) – Yokogawa Electric Corporation and KBR announced the signing of a technology alliance for a fertilizer automation package (FAP) that will form part of the ammonia process technology solutions that KBR offers to its customers worldwide. Under the terms of this alliance, KBR will incorporate Yokogawa’s high value-added process control solutions in the FAP.

MANCHESTER, U.K. (April 16, 2013) – NOV® Mono® announced a new working partnership which will enhance the levels of support which the company delivers to customers in the wastewater industry in Northern Germany. NOV Mono has begun working in co-operation with a leading service provider in this sector – Preetz-based Walter Fiedler – who will be making their considerable experience of the German wastewater industry available to customers in the Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg areas.

DALFSEN, Netherlands (April 18, 2013) – Amarcon, a member of the ABB group, announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with GTT (Gaztransport & Technigaz) to market and further develop a forecasting and advice software system for sloshing prevention onboard LNG carriers. The agreement was signed at the LNG17 Conference & Exhibition in Houston.

NEWNAN, Ga. (April 19, 2013) – Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Yokogawa Electric Korea Co., Ltd., has won an order from Korea South-East Power Co., Ltd., (KOSEP), a subsidiary of Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), to supply control systems for the No. 1 unit of the Yeosu Thermal Power Plant in the city of Yeosu, which is located in Korea’s South Jeolla Province.

UFA, Russia (April 22, 2013) – GE and Russian oil company Bashneft have launched pilot testing of GE’s ZeeWeed* membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology for biological treatment of sewage water from the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim oil processing complex and other enterprises of the Northern Industrial Block of Ufa.

BATESVILLE, Ind. (April 2, 2013) – Elgin Fastener Group, LLC has completed the acquisition of Vegas Fastener Manufacturing of Las Vegas.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (April 3, 2013) – In a partnership dedicated to temporary cofferdam dewatering on a wide variety of jobsites—including construction, remediation, rehabilitation, flood protection and in-water inspection—Rain for Rent and Portadam™ have merged expertise and operational resources to deliver optimal performance and efficiency.