OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. (March 15, 2013) – Pump Solutions Group (PSG^®), a business unit within Dover Corporation announced that Jeff Zhang has been appointed general manager for PSG’s Shanghai facility in Lingang, China. He will report to David Wang, PSG’s Vice President of Asia-Pacific.

FRANKENTHAL, Germany (March 15, 2013) – KSB Aktiengesellschaft is scheduled to supply a new, state-of-the-art coal-fired power plant located south-east of Pune in the West Indian state of Maharashtra with 16 pumps by November 2014. India's national energy authority is building the supercritical power plant comprising two 660-megawatt units in Solapur.

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill (March 12, 2013) – Pump Solutions Group (PSG^®), a business unit within Dover Corporation and manufacturer of positive displacement pumps and related technologies, recently donated children’s bicycles and helmets to children associated with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Capistrano Valley. The event took place at the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. (March 14, 2013) – The Hydraulic Institute (HI) recognized the 2012 Standards VIP (Very Important Participant) recipients at the 2013 HI Annual Meeting in Fort Myers, Florida. The VIP program, which began in 2010, recognizes individual HI members who go above and beyond in their contribution to the development of ANSI/HI Pump Standards, guidelines, and education & training programs.

ZURICH, Switzerland (March 13, 2013) – ABB recently won a $26 million order to supply electrical power and propulsion systems for two next generation ‘Ramform’ vessels, capable of three-dimensional (3D) seismic data acquisition for deep sea resource exploration.

EXTON, Pa. (March 11, 2013) – NETZSCH Pumps North America, LLC recently named David J. Fillo the business field manager for dosing technology with responsibility for the North American market for the Dosing and Meter Mix Industries. For more than 30 years Fillo has spent the majority of his career pioneering the acceptance of progressing cavity pumps for hard- to-dispense, highly abrasive and viscous applications. Fillo is based in St. Louis, Mo.

WAYNE, Pa., and NEW YORK (March 8, 2013) – Gardner Denver, Inc. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion, including the assumption of debt.

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (March 06, 2013) - ITT Corporation announced that its flagship Goulds Pumps brand is continuing its partnership with the international Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Program, supported by the American Heart Association (AHA) and its global partners, by making a $25,000 donation to provide hands-only CPR training around the world.

PARIS (March 6, 2013) – Sustainable development of Alberta’s vast oil sands is a key priority, and in early 2013 construction began on the world’s first refinery specifically designed to reduce environmental impacts as it turns tarry bitumen crude into clean-burning diesel fuel.