·         4 Lane Knowledge Bridge to the End User

·         Pumps World Market Update Headlines – May 2013

·         GE Competing with Ecolab, Flowserve, Xylem and Pentair for Top Spot in Fluid Treatment Market

·         GDP Update Headlines - May 2013

·         Chemical Industry Update - May 2013

·         Oil & Gas Latest Projects - May 2013

·         Many New Power Generation Projects in Asia

·         World Municipal Wastewater Project News Provided Monthly 

·         Check out Your Coverage in the Global Decision Orchard

·         Collaboration is the Key to the Full Utilization of the Digital Universe

4 Lane Knowledge Bridge to the End User
 

Other excerpts in this issue of Pump Insights relate to the other vehicles on the knowledge bridge.  You can receive a copy of Pump Insights every two weeks free-of-charge by registering at: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/Free_Newsletter_Registration_Form.htm.

PUMPS WORLD MARKET

UPDATE

May, 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acquisition

Dover PSG Completes Purchase of Ebsray Pumps

New Facilities

Hayward Tyler Upgrades Luton UK Plant

Finance

ITT First Quarter Sales Grew by 7 Percent

Curtiss-Wright First Quarter Sales Up 16 Percent in Flow Technology

Crane Co. Fluid Handling Sales Declined 4 Percent in First Quarter

People

David Linton Resigns as President of Curtiss-Wright Flow Control

Atlas Copco Mining President Resigns

Wilo Names New National Sales Manager

National Pump Company Announces Executive Changes

Projects

Sulzer Sells 20 Pumps for FPSO Vessel in Offshore Brazil

Xylem Wins Contract for Beijing Wastewater Pumping Stations

Verderflex Peristaltic Pump Used in South African Mine Water

Amarinth Receives Order for Vertical Sump Pumps on BP FPSO

Colfax Allweiler Sells Pumps for Lifting Topside Structures for Offshore Platforms

Edwards Wins Contract for Vacuum Pumps in CERN Switzerland

Patterson Pump Company Wins New New Orleans Contract

ClydeUnion Sells Fire-Protection Pump to Spanish Nuclear Plant

Apollo Delivered Two Pumps to Russian Chemical Plant

New Products

Caterpillar Introduces New Well Simulation Pumps

ITT Announces New Oil and Gas Pumps and Other Products

Gardner Denver Expands Jade Pump Line

Caprari Launches New Range of Multistage Vertical Electric Pumps

Wastecorp Introduces New Trash Pump

WORLD WATER AND WASTEWATER DESALINATION

This information can be found in the RO/UF/MF Market Update.

 Many projects are detailed in monthly updates under Industry Analysis in the Report’s Chapters.

CHEMICALS
ETHANOL
FOOD & BEVERAGE
METALWORKING
MINING

OIL & GAS
OTHER ELECTRONICS
PHARMACEUTICAL / BIOTECH
PULP & PAPER
REFINERIES
SEMICONDUCTOR

POWER 

• Huge pump expenditures are forecast for flue gas desulfurization systems in the U.S. and China. The specific reports are available separately in Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation:  Analysis and Forecast (formerly World Coal Fired) and in Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System.

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GE Competing with Ecolab, Flowserve, Xylem and Pentair for Top Spot in Fluid Treatment Market

The Ecolab/Nalco and the Pentair/Tyco mergers underline the growing realization that the flow control and treatment market can be pursued in entirety.  No one company has as much as two percent of this $330 billion market.  Five companies with over a one percent market share are GE, Ecolab, Flowserve, Xylem and Pentair. These market shares are included in the McIlvaine report, Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)  GE boosted its market presence with the acquisition of Dresser.  It has a number of divisions which participate in many product and application segments.

* includes vacuum bags and face masks as well as HVAC

Current coverage   

Purchased as part of EPC activity      

Areas recently withdrawn from due to sale of precipitator and air monitoring divisions

As shown in yellow it is a full participant in many areas. In others, it acts as an engineering, procurement and construction contractor and purchases equipment from others.

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GDP UPDATE HEADLINES

May 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AMERICAS

United States

Mexico

ASIA

India

Taiwan

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

Czech Republic

France

Latvia

Lithuania

Slovenia

Spain

AMERICAS

United States

The recently released gross domestic product quarterly report shows a sluggish but improved economy. Markets responded with a day that saw little change in value.

The advance estimate of real GDP expanded at a seasonally-adjusted annualized rate of 2.5%, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, falling short of analysts’ expectations of 3%, but much improved over the previous quarter’s 0.4% growth. GDP measures the nation's total output of goods and services. The Commerce Department will release an adjusted first quarter report on May 30.

BBVA Compass, a financial services firm, estimated a first quarter GDP growth of 2.3 or 2.4%. “We are more pessimistic than the majority of analysts,” Kim Fraser, an economist at BBVA Compass, said. “Personal consumption and employment were strong in January and February, but slowed dramatically in March. Employment was down drastically,” she said.

The increase in the first quarter was due to rises in personal consumption, business inventory, equipment and software, and housing investment, according to the Commerce Department’s report.

“Consumption was stronger than expected, and housing was a strong mover,” Fraser said.

Imports increased, which resulted in a lower GDP, but economists like Fraser see an upside to this. “Imports may be an encouraging sign,” she said, referencing the fact that they indicate an increase in consumer spending.

Another factor responsible for lower than expected GDP growth was a decrease in spending by local, state and federal governments.

Most of the effects of sequestration, the drastic across the board cuts to federal spending, have yet to be felt in the economy, but defense spending declined 11.5%, which kept the first quarter GDP growth from reaching 3%, according to BMO Capital Markets Senior Economist Sal Guatieri. “Federal defense spending carved 0.6 percentage points from growth,” he wrote in a report.

Both Fraser and Guatieri believe the sequestration cuts will have more of an effect in the second quarter. Despite this, Guatieri predicted, “While sequestration will slow GDP in Q2, we still expect growth to top 3% in the second half of the year amid improved household finances, pent-up demand for autos, and the long-running housing market recovery.” 

Mexico

The outlook for economic growth and inflation in Latin America's second-largest economy this year has deteriorated among private-sector economists, according to a Bank of Mexico survey.

Analysts see the country's economy expanding 3.35% in 2013, according to the average estimate of the central bank's April survey, down from the 3.46% expected in the previous month's poll.

Mexico's annual inflation is seen rising 3.9% this year, up from the previous estimate of 3.75%. Thirty-three local and foreign banks and consultancy firms responded to the April survey.

The central bank's survey showed economists maintain a glum view of Mexico's growth as sluggish global demand, particularly in the U.S., is already affecting Mexico's export engine.

The government itself sees first-quarter GDP growth slowing to an annual rate of 1%, the lowest since the recession of 2009, with an economic recovery expected to happen in the second half of the year.

Price worries have recently increased in Mexico after 12-month inflation rose to 4.72% in the first half of April, the highest level in seven months. The central bank has said it is a temporary uptick caused by volatile agricultural prices.

Lower growth and higher inflation led Mexico's central bank to stand pat on rates in its last policy meeting in late April, keeping a neutral tone. The bank already cut the key overnight interest rate by 50 basis points to 4% in its March decision. 

ASIA
 

India

Projecting a modest pick-up in economic activity in the coming months, Reserve Bank today pegged GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth rate for the current fiscal year at 5.7%, significantly lower than the Finance Ministry's forecast of 6.1 to 6.7%.

"The Reserve Bank's baseline projection of GDP growth for 2013-14 is 5.7%. The bank's current assessment is that activity will remain subdued during the first half of this year with a modest pick-up in the second half, subject to appropriate conditions ensuing," RBI said in its annual monetary policy review for 2013-14.

India's economy grew by 5% in the last fiscal year, lowest in a decade, because of poor performance of manufacturing, agriculture and services sector.

The RBI's current fiscal year's growth estimate of 5.7% is much lower than the finance ministry's growth projection of 6.1-6.7% and Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council's growth projection of 6.4% for 2013-14.

It is also lower than the World Bank's growth projection, which predicted the Indian economy to grow by 6.1% in 2013-14 on account of robust domestic demand, strong savings and investment rate.

Not happy with RBI's growth projection, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia had described its outlook as 'pessimistic'.

"Reserve Bank is clearly more pessimistic than the government is. I think that the government forecast as of now is feasible. Critically what matters is, how effective we are in restoring the momentum of investment in the large projects", the Plan panel deputy chief said. The Reserve Bank today cut the key interest rate by just 0.25% to 7.25% …….. (Remaining text not included in this sample.)

A complete analysis of GDP and monthly updates for individual countries are included as part of Pumps World Markets.  For more information on Pumps World Markets, click on:  

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CHEMICAL INDUSTRY UPDATE

May 2013

Table of Contents

INDUSTRY NEWS

Asian Companies Emerging as Suppliers of Continent’s Fast Growth Chemical Industry

UK Researchers Devise PE Decomposition Additive

COMPANY NEWS

Mitsui & Celanese Enter Joint Venture to Produce Methanol in U.S.

Solvay, Ineos Reach Merger Agreement for PVC Businesses

Mitsubishi Buys Michigan-based Compounder Comtrex

Mitsubishi Chemical, JNC, and Japan Polychem to Transfer PP Businesses

Evonik and OPX Biotechnologies Signs Development Agreement for Bio-based Chemicals

Dow Chemical’s Venture Targets $1 Billion in Carbon Investments

Chemical Industry Forecasts and Updates are included as part of Pumps World Markets.

For more information on Pumps World Markets, click on:  

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OIL & GAS LATEST PROJECTS

May 2013

Sales Leads for Oil and Gas

·         TransCanada Moves Forward on West-East Oil Pipeline Plan  (Project  Dated:  5/22/2013)

·         Foster Wheeler Awarded SNG Studies by Pecket Energy in Chile  (Project  Dated:  5/22/2013)

·         Key Energy Hopes to Build Water Treatment Plant in Carlsbad, NM  (Proposal  Dated:  5/22/2013)

·         EU Countries Showing Interest in Ukraine's Gas Transportation and Storage System  (Article  Dated:  5/17/2013)

·         Ezra Wins Four New Contracts Totaling Nearly $120 Mln  (Contract  Dated:  5/17/2013)

·         Daybreak Oil and Gas Launches Six Well Drilling Program to Develop California East Slopes Oil Project  (Project  Dated:  5/17/2013)

·         Mott MacDonald Awarded Engineering Consultancy Contract for Al Khafji Field  (Contract  Dated:  5/17/2013)

·         Pars Oil & Gas Signs Six Deals with Iranian Companies  (Agreement  Dated:  5/17/2013)

·         Colorado Oil and Gas Companies Find Cleaning Toxic Liquid Waste an Expensive Process  (Analysis  Dated:  5/17/2013)

·         Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. with Patented Ozonix Technology Selected as 2013 New Energy Pioneer  (Article  Dated:  5/17/2013)

·         Key Energy Hopes to Build Water Treatment Plant in Carlsbad, NM  (Article  Dated:  5/17/2013)

·         Mozambique and Tanzania Resurgence Reshapes Eastern Africa Oil Landscape  (Article  Dated:  5/16/2013)

·         Both Critics and Supporters Unhappy with Obama Handling of Keystone Pipeline Review  (Article  Dated:  5/15/2013)

·         ProSep Awarded $2 Mln Contract for Produced Water Treatment Solution  (Contract  Dated:  5/15/2013)

·         Austin Startup Omni Water Solutions Raises $4 Million for Expansion  (Article  Dated:  5/15/2013)

·         New Euclid, OH Pipe Plant Expects to Transform Coatings Industry  (Article  Dated:  5/15/2013)

·         Colorado Fracking Database Questioned by Harvard Study  (Analysis  Dated:  5/15/2013)

·         Chevron Announces Carnarvon Basin Natural Gas Discovery Offshore Australia  (Article  Dated:  5/15/2013)

·         Repsol Makes Three Oil Discoveries in Alaska  (Article  Dated:  5/15/2013)

·         Ridgeline Announces New PA Water Treatment Facility and Expansion of NM Facility  (Project  Dated:  5/15/2013)

·         Mongolia and Genie Energy Sign Strategic Oil Shale Development Agreement  (Agreement  Dated:  5/14/2013)

·         Plains All American Announces New Cactus Oil Pipeline in Texas  (Project  Dated:  5/14/2013)

·         Shell Awards Jacobs Contract for Hong Kong Oil Project  (Contract  Dated:  5/14/2013)

·         Atlas Pipeline to Buy Eagle Ford Shale Midstream Business for $1Bln  (Agreement  Dated:  5/14/2013)

·         Iran Terminates CNPCs' South Pars Phase 11 Contract  (Contract  Dated:  5/14/2013)

·         BP to Invest Nearly $540 Mln in South Africa, Mozambique  (Investment  Dated:  5/14/2013)

·         LyondellBasell Unveils Plans for NGL Fractionation at Corpus Christi  (Project  Dated:  5/13/2013)

These sales leads are part of Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects, and are issued bi-weekly.  As a subscriber to Pumps World Markets, you receive a 30 percent discount for this service.

For more information on Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=72#n049

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Many New Power Generation Projects in Asia

New power plant projects are tracked continuously and revised start-up summaries are published monthly. Here are plants starting up in 2014.

Startup Date / Fuel - Summary Chart

New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World Power Generation Projects has just the project data. For more information click on:

Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis & Forecast

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72#n043

World Power Generation Projects: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/energy.html#40a 

World Municipal Wastewater Project News Provided Monthly 

This monthly update is devoted to wastewater infrastructure news around the world, outside of the United States and Canada, and is included as part of the McIlvaine's Pumps World Markets.

AFRICA

African Sanitation Initiative Obtains Technical Support from Malaysian Sewerage Company 

ASIA

Australia:  Microvi Selects MWH to Promote Biotechnology Products in Asia Pacific

China:  Phase I of Guantang Wastewater Treatment Plant to go On-line This Year

India:  Chennai WWTP to Add Tertiary Process to Provide Treated Water for Industrial Use

Nepal:  ADB Approves US$80 Million Loan to Improve Sewerage in Kathmandu

Philippines:  Manila Water Completes Boracay Plant Upgrades Ahead of Schedule

EUROPE

Latvia:  Riga Completes US$11 Million Upgrade of Daugavgriva WWTP

UK:  Thames Water 25-Year Strategy Includes Reusing Treated Sewage in Drinking Water

UK:  Severn Trent Rejects US$7.2 Billion Takeover Offer

MIDDLE EAST

Oman:  Major Water Reuse Project Led by Haya Water Underway in Muscat

Oman:  Haya Water Begins Construction of Wastewater Project in Amerat

Qatar:  Waagner Biro Awarded Two Reed Bed Contracts Totaling US$2.1 Million

Saudi Arabia:  Water Minister Signs Water and Sanitation Contracts worth US$220 Million

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA

Brazil:  20-Year, $250 Billion Water Stimulus Package under Development

Brazil:  Saneago Requests Bids for US$27 Million Wastewater System Expansion in Goiânia

Brazil:  First Sewage Treatment Plant in Cordeirópolis Gets Green Light on Funding

Peru: Construction Permits for US$373 Million Cerro Verde WWTP Issued

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Check out Your Coverage in the Global Decision Orchard

The McIlvaine Global Decisions Orchard (GDO) receives more than 30,000 hits per week from searchers looking for technical and product information. Thousands of pages of data and pictures, as well as hundreds of recordings are freely accessed.

There are two ways to search for data. The Quick Search  allows you to insert any word and see all the information containing that word in the title, summary or structured key words. The result is you receive much more unique current and focused information than on a Google search.

The Full Display allows you to benefit from decisive classification. All decisions are a series of classifications. A system which provides the real options at each step along the way is much more useful than the random methods. Classification is by:

·                     product according to actual use,

·                     companies with a unique numerical indicator to eliminate the language problems,

·                     applications with a precise two record description, and

·                     precise labeling,

·                     division of processes, materials, pollutants, etc.

This search system leads the searcher immediately to the most comprehensive information.

Free News and Analyses in the Global Decisions Orchard

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Collaboration is the Key to the Full Utilization of the Digital Universe

The European Trade Fair Industry is built on a thousand year old tradition of annual or bi-annual gatherings to bring buyer and seller together. The advent of the printing press in 1440 started the evolution in mass communication. The telephone and telegraph some 400 years later created the next big step toward better buyer-seller communication.

Improvements in the postal service and written communications were steady but not spectacular until the development of high speed telefax systems in the late 1980s.

From this point forward, digital communication technology has grown so rapidly that it has obsolesced many sales tools and approaches. The problem is that most companies have not been able to take advantage of these advances.

Unless information is placed in the right hands, at the right time, it is not valuable.  Competitors and customers dictate the deviation of the “right time.”  Younger people in a purchasing and specifying role are accustomed to instant answers to their queries.

With comprehensive information on process and products available with a click of a mouse, the purchaser rightly expects a level of knowledge and expertise on the part of the salesman which is much greater than in the days of the “two martini lunch.”

There is no way that the salesman can memorize the multitude of useful data he may need at a given moment. He has to have a system which can supply this information on demand. This means access to data as well as company experts.

Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence and Sales Intelligence systems all provide ways to organize the mountain of digital information. But unless they supply the right information, they are not of much use.  If the individuals within the organization do not collaborate to divide and analyze the mountain appropriately, the system will fail.

It takes a system which combines Knowledge + Organization + Collaboration (KOC) to maximize sales and technical opportunities. The McIlvaine KOC strategy integrates on all three requirements.  For more information, click on:

KOC Sales Strategy

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