Subject:  Pumps World Market News

Here are the headlines for the month of October in the Updates to Pumps World Market.  The updates reflect only some of the new additions.  The analysis and revenues are constantly revised.  For more information, click on:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/water.html#N019 .

Pumps World Market
Update
October 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acquisition

• Weir Completes Purchase of Pompe Gabbioneta

·         ABS in UK Acquires Service Unit

SALE

• Sundyne Corporation Sells Canned Motor Pump Line to Nikkiso Pumps America

NEW FACTORY

• ABS Opens New Manufacturing Plant in Vadstena, Sweden

Financials

• GE Reports Third Quarter Earnings Up 15 Percent
• IRO ARO Reaches $5 Million in Sales of EXPert Diaphragm Pump

PEOPLE

• Putzmeister America Appoints Dick Farrell as Sales Manager--Large Contractors
• Pentair Realigns Management

PROJECTS

• Weir’s Downhole Multiphase Pumps Purchased for Subsea Oil Wells in North Sea
• Twelve Warman Gravel Pumps for Tunnel Project in China

·         Black & Veatch Designing Water Project in San Luis Obispo

• Flowserve and Subsea 7 to Develop Multiphase Pump
• Subsea 7 and Flowserve to Develop Another Multiphase Pump
• Subsea Awarded Contract for Gulf of Mexico
• Mono Pump Supplies Pumps to Danish Biogas Company

NEW PRODUCTS

• Seepex Metering Pumps Are Available in Exotic Materials
• Grindex Introduces Narrow Submersible Tubo Pumps

·         ABS Launches New Higher AFP Pump Range

·         BOC Edwards Introduces New Low Energy Pump

·         Smith & Loveless Develops New Pump Station

OIL & GAS

POWER

REFINERIES

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Bob McIlvaine

rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com