PUMPS MARKET
UPDATE
September 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acquisition
Colfax Buys Charter International Howden and ESAB
Lufkin Acquires Quinn’s Oilfield Supply
Cameron Acquires LeTourneau
Facilities
Torishima Completes Renovation of High Pressure Pump Factory
New Company to Enter Industrial Pump Industry
Falcon Pumps to Enter Industrial Pumps Market in 2013
Finance
Spirax Sarco’s Half Year Revenues Break Record
Specialist Energy Group’s First Half Results
Tyco to Split into Three Companies
Grundfos’ Turnover Increases 10 Percent in First Half 2011
Interpump Group Sales Up 26 Percent for First Half
Sulzer Pumps’ Order Intake Increases in First Half of 2011
Weir SPM Discusses Its Market
Torishima Pumps Posts First Quarter Sales Gain
Pentair’s Sales Up 14 Percent in Second Quarter
People
GE Oil & Gas Names New CEO
Wilo USA Adds Senior Vice President of Sales
Fristam Pumps Hires New Sales Manager for Mexico and Central America
Projects
GE Oil & Gas Supplying Pumps to Iraqi Oil Field
HMS Group Obtains Contracts for Pumps in Siberian Oil & Gas Fields
Weir Geho Gets Brazilian Iron Ore Pipeline Order
Hydroflo Supplies Chemical Pumps for North Carolina Power Plant
New Products
Lutz-Jesco Adds New Peristaltic Pump Line
Sundyne Sells 50 MagDrive Pumps with Revolutionary Shroud
KSB Releases Wastewater Pump to US Market
Colfax Corporation Brings Out New High-Temperature Oil Pump
Aurora Pump Launches End Suction Pump
Blackmer’s GX Series Pumps Designed for Chemical Processing
Finish Thompson Expands Plastic Mag-Drive Sealless Centrifugal Pump Offering
Almatec Adds to Biocor AODD Pumps
WORLD WATER AND WASTEWATER DESALINATION
INDUSTRY NEWS
Market for Cross-flow Membranes to Rise 41 Percent by 2015 in Middle East
$900 Million Market for Desal Components and Materials
Desalination Will Soon Provide 75 Percent of Israel’s Drinking Water
Judge Strikes Down MMWD Desal Plan, Finds Flaws in Environmental Review
NEW PLANT CONSTRUCTION NEWS
Ashdod Desalination Plant Agreement Signed
New Tuaspring Seawater Desal Plant to use DWEER™ Devices
Sionix Announces Plans for Construction and Operation of WWTP in the Bakken Shale Formation of North Dakota
ACCIONA Agua Commissions its First Desalination Plant in Algeria
Perth-Based Company to Set Up Desalination Plant in Cape Verde
TECHNOLOGY/NEW PRODUCT NEWS
Promising Lead with Low Pressure Desalination
Success of Low Temperature Thermal Desalination Technology
Sumitomo Electric Industries Develops Membrane to Trap TEP
Expert urges Qatar to Adopt New Desalination Methods
Desalination to Rival Water Reuse Costs by 2015
Reverse Osmosis Yield Increased by 10 Percent, Biocides Reduced by 50 Percent
Water Use in Mines Driving Technology
Many projects are detailed in monthly updates under Industry Analysis in this 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 and Nuclear Power Generation World Analysis and Forecast and in Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System.