PUMPS WORLD MARKET UPDATE

  April, 2015

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acquisition

PCM Acquires AMIK Oilfield Equipment

Government Proposed Regulations

DOE Proposes Energy Efficient Regulations for Pumps

Finance

Sulzer First Quarter Down

Desmi Turnover Increases 13 Percent in 2014

People

Xylem Names New Vice President, Emerging Markets

IMI Appoints New Chairman

Projects

Xylem Partners with Veolia

UK Rail System Uses Hughes Pump High Pressure Pump

Patterson Pumps for New Orleans Flooding Project Described

Weir Hidrostal Pumps Installed in British Wastewater Treatment Plant

Netzsch Rotary Lobe Pumps Solves Delaware Wastewater Treatment Problems

Pennsylvania Brewing Company Installs Netzsch Progressing Cavity Pumps

BJM Pumps Provided Pumps for Nestle’s Waste Line

Summit ESP Announces Its 4,000^th Installation

SPP Fire Pumps Installed in Indonesia

New Products

Atlas Copco Introduces New Vacuum Pump Line

Flux Gerate Introduces New Diaphragm Pump

Saer Announces New Compact Quiet Pump

Mouvex Adds Model to Eccentric Disc Pump Series

WORLD WATER AND WASTEWATER DESALINATION

 INDUSTRY NEWS

Environmental Executive Moves: Aquarius, Cambrian, Tomi, SERI

NEW PLANT CONSTRUCTION NEWS

Hyflux-led venture wins deal for giant Oman desalination plant

Abengoa Desalination Plant to Supply Water to 500,000

Reverse Osmosis Desalination Kick-started in Qatar with Ras Abu Fontas A3 Project

Mott McDonald to advise on Moroccan Desal Plant

Veolia-led Group Refinances Oman Project

Inovateus completes Caribbean Project

Desalitech System Boosts Paper Manufacturer’s Water Recovery

TECHNOLOGY/NEW PRODUCT NEWS

Evoqua launches Reverse Osmosis System into Asian Industrial Markets

Israel Scales Up Reverse Osmosis Desalination to Slash Costs with a Fourth of the Piping

GE to Install Mobile Reverse Osmosis System at Power Plant

Pelican Water Launches New, Greener Reverse Osmosis System

ORNL-Led Team Demonstrates Desalination with Graphene Membrane

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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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES

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(Listed by most current date)

March 26, 2015

Azerbaijan's SOCAR to Ask Central Bank for $952 Mln for Petrochemical Plant

Fluor Selected as Project Management Contractor for OGPC Project in Azerbaijan

KBR & Showa Denko Sign Multi-Technology Acetyls Licensing Agreement

India’s IOC to invest $1.259 Bln in Processing-related Upgrades, Expansions

Shell’s Pearl GTL Plant Enters Planned Maintenance

RIL Awards Contract to Metso for Jamnagar Refinery Expansion

Wood Group Providing Automation Engineering Services for ExxonMobil

Air Liquide Building $170 Mln Unit to Supply St. James Parish Methanol Complex

14 Iran Petrochemical Projects Introduced to China for Financing

Shell Scraps Plan for Al Karaana Petrochemical Plant in Qatar

KBR Awarded Sabic FEED Contract at Al Jubail Petrochemical Plant

SIBUR Advances Grassroots Petrochemicals Complex

NF Energy Signs Export Contract with Tecnedil International SRL, Italy

Technip Awarded Contract for New 500 KTA Ethylbenzene Styrene Monomer Plant in China

Saudi Kayan is Allocated More Gas to Expand Ethylene Production

CB&I Wins Contract for Egypt Polypropylene Unit

Chevron Phillips Chemical Completes Ethylene Expansion at its Sweeny Complex

Bolivia’s Petrochemical Industry Set to Prosper with the New Gran Chaco Plant

Yara and BASF to Build $600 Mln Ammonia Plant in Texas

Aramco, Dow to Start Sadara Chemical Joint Venture in 2015

Recent Lawsuits could Signal a Litigious Future for Phillips 66 and its Rail Spur Project

AkzoNobel Plans Coatings Capacity Expansion in Indonesia

Egyptian and Kuwaiti Firms to Invest $6.8 Bln in Petrochemical Projects in Egypt

Braskem Pushes for Extension of Petrobras Naphtha Contract

Topsoe, Technip Sign Slovakia Ammonia Contract

Praxair to Supply Hydrogen, Nitrogen to new BASF, Yara Ammonia Plant

Invista to Manufacture Nylon Pipe at Kansas Facility

WorleyParsons Announces Contract for Viva Energy's Geelong Refinery

John Crane Wins Exclusive Agreement for Portion of Clean Fuels Project in Kuwait

Canadian Crude Proves Perfect Partner to U.S. Shale

Chevron may be Nearing Hawaii Assets Sale Deal

Environmentalists File Suit against CA Rodeo Refinery Propane Recovery Project

Indian Oil Seeks 90,000 Tonnes of Gasoline Ahead of Koyali Refinery Shutdown

Finland's Neste Oil Plans 250 Mln Euro Refinery Integration

Petrobras Refinery Cracker Unit Repairs Should Be Completed by March 7

Expansion Work Progresses at Lukoil’s Volgograd Refinery

Five Bidders for Tamoil's Collombey Refinery in Switzerland

Shell Pernis Refinery to Undergo Planned Maintenance until Early May

Marathon Petroleum Planning to Integrate Two Texas Refineries

Iran Unveils Gas-Sweetening Technology

Marathon Defers Garyville Refinery Upgrader Plans

Fluor Says New Projects Still Emerging in North American Refining Despite Fallen Oil Prices

CB&I Awarded Technology and FEED Contracts for Delayed Coker Unit

UAE’s Arabtec Wins $253 Mln of Saudi Petro Work

Many of Europe's Oil Refiners will Miss Out on Profit Margins Rally as Maintenance Season Starts

400 Companies Interested after Uganda Ends Moratorium and Issues First Oil Licenses

European Refineries to Slash Capacity due to Overseas Competition and Weak Domestic Demand

Pemex Contracts SENER, Samsung on Clean Diesel at Salamanca Refinery

Contract for Metering Systems at Aramco’s Jazan Refinery, Terminal Project

EPA Approves Revisions to California’s Refinery Emission Regulations

Brazil's Petrobras Announces Two Refinery Delays

Five Baton Rouge Companies Awarded $1 Bln in Contracts on Sasol Project

Modernizing Replan, Brazil’s Largest Crude Oil Refinery

Work on Duqm Liquids Terminal to Start in Q4 2015

Mexico's Pemex to Delay Refinery Upgrades Due to Low Oil Prices

Refinery Explosion and Fire at Torrance, CA Exxon Facility

New Diesel Unit at Turkey’s Izmit Refinery to Start Production

Tesoro Board Okays Complementary Mixed Xylene, Isomerization Projects at Anacortes

U.S. EPA Hints at Softening Carbon Rule Interim Timeline

Saudi Aramco Seeks $10 Bln Loan to Fund Refining, Chemical Expansions

Honeywell UOP Selected by Russia’s Mendeleev Group for New Deep Oil Processing Complex

Russia’s RT Global to Build New Uganda Refinery

Schneider Electric to Automate MTG Plant

Pemex to Cut Refining Budget, Limit Pipeline Use

Petrobras Shuts Part of REPAR Refinery Two Weeks after Malfunction

MDU-Calumet Announces Marketing Delay for its Fidelity Exploration & Production Business and Q2 Production Start at ND Refinery

ConocoPhillips Exec Says Refiners Would Get 'All the Oil They Need' without U.S. Export Ban

BORL Plans Capacity Expansion at Bina Refinery

Shell’s Corunna Refinery Capacity Could Expand by 15,000 Barrels a Day

Hydrogen Purification Technology from Honeywell's UOP Selected for New Refinery in China

High Incidence of U.S. Refinery January Weekend Shutdowns May Worsen Crude Woes

Delfin LNG Announces MOU with BTG Pactual Commodities for First FLNGV Tolling Capacity

Petronas to Make FID on Canadian Pacific NorthWest LNG Project by June

Golar LNG, Rosneft Sign MOU to Cooperate on FLNG Projects in Latin America

Philippines' First Gen Seeks Partner for $1 Bln LNG Import Terminal

Parallax Energy Plans $2 Bln LNG Terminal near Lake Charles

FERC Approves Cheniere’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project, Pipeline

CenterPoint Energy to Build and Upgrade Electric Transmission Facilities to Serve Freeport LNG

Russia's Yamal LNG Sees Global Liquefied Gas Deficit by 2018

Rio Grande LNG Doubles Site to 1,000 Acres, Completes Basis of Design

Energy World Says Philippines LNG-fired Plant to Start Power Output in 3 Months

Total Says Yemen LNG Exports Ongoing with One Production Train Undergoing Maintenance

First Gas Reaches Curtis Island LNG Facility in Australia

Applied LNG to Buy Biogas from BP

E.ON Seals Pipe and Shipping Deals to Export LNG from US

Litgas, Statoil Consider LNG Bunkering Business in Baltic Region

Wartsila, Cryonorm to Deliver LNG Systems for Inland Waterway Europe Market

Alaska LNG Filings Launch FERC Public Engagement Process

Repsol Seeks Regulatory Approval for East Canada LNG Export Terminal

Bear Head LNG Advances in Canadian Regulatory Process

Woodside Sees Little Hope for East Timor LNG This Decade

Air Products Wins LNG Technology, Equipment Order for Louisiana Terminal Facility

Alaska LNG Project Draft Resource Reports Filed with FERC

Venture Global LNG Raises $125 Mln in Equity Financing

Jacobs Secures Sustaining Capital Works Agreement for Australia Pacific LNG Facility

Qatargas Begins $1 Bln Gas Recovery Project at Ras Laffan Industrial City

WorleyParsons Signs $30 Mln Engineering Services Contract

JGC Bags $510 Mln EPCC Contract for Petronas' Bintulu LNG Complex

Eni Expects Investment Decision on Mozambique LNG by Mid-2015

KBR Signs Technical Services Agreement/MOU for Magnolia LNG Terminal

Louisiana Governor and Live Oak LNG Announce New Liquefaction Project in Calcascieu Parish

ExxonMobil to Add Third Train to PNG LNG Project

First LNG Carrier Delivered for Papua New Guinea LNG Project

NEB Approves Woodside Energy LNG Export License

Cheniere and EIG Finalize $1.5 Bln Equity Investment for Corpus Christi LNG Project

Jereh Group Operates China's First Shale Gas Liquefaction Plant

Wärtsilä Receives Full Notice to Proceed with Its First LNG Terminal

Golar Signs HOA for the Development of FLNG

Exxon Plans to Invest $25 Bln on B.C. Prince Rupert LNG Project

SSAB to Invest in LNG Terminal Project in Tornio, Finland

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INDUSTRIAL EMITTERS UPDATE HEADLINES

March 2015 – No. 2

AMERICAS

Chemicals

• Praxair Gulf Coast Expansion to Serve Freeport, Texas, and Supply New Yara/ BASF Ammonia Project
• GEO Opens New Polyaluminum Chloride Facility in Texas

Cement

• Haldor Topsoe and Flsmidth Develop New Catalytic Filter Bag Technology
• Charlevoix, Michigan Cement Plant Expansion Cleared
• Quebec Approved Mcinnis Cement’s Port-Daniel-Gascons Plant without Environmental Review
• RHI Gets US$11.6m Refractory Order from Lafarge
• Cementera Nacional Establishes JV with Yura for Riobamba, Equador Plant Expansion
• Cementos Argos Waste Tyres Scheme Tests Underway

Food

• Blue Shore to Open New Carp Food Production Plant in Kentucky
• Golden State Foods to Establish Meat Processing Plant in Alabama
• Butterball to Expand Turkey Processing Operations with New Facility in NC
• Nate’s Food Breaks Ground on Canning Facility in California; Plans New Indiana Factory
• Chaucer Opens New Freeze Dry Plant in Oregon
• Clemens Food to Build $255.7m Pork Processing Plant in Michigan
• Silgan Containers Building Metal Can Manufacturing Facility in Burlington, IA
• BrucePac Meat Packing to Operate in Old Durant, OK Plant
• JBS Launches $75M Expansion at Utah Beef Processing Plant
• JBS SA to Expand Beef Production in Brazil

ASIA

Mining

• India's Coal Mine Auction Results

Cement

• World Bank Pledges US$200m for Waste Heat Recovery at Vietnam Cement Plants
• Vietnamese Government Agrees Extra Cement Production Capacity
• MCL to Restart Cherthala, India Grinding Plant
• Ramco Cements Likely to Commission Vizag Grinding Plant, India, in April 2015
• Prism Cement Plans 3Mt/Yr Clinker Plant in Andhra Pradesh, India

Food

• Heinz Opens $70m Infant Cereal Production Plant in China
• Amul to Invest $786.8m to Ramp up Capacity in India

EMEA

Chemicals

• Technip Awarded Substantial Contract for New Fertilizer Unit in Slovak Republic
• Air Liquide to Build, Own and Operate World’s Largest Oxygen Production Unit for Sasol in South Africa

Cement

• Uzbekistan to Launch Two New Cement Plants in 2016
• DG Khan Plans US$300m Cement Plant in Pakistan
• Northern Cement's Jordanian Unit to Add New Clinker Line
• Arabian Cement Gets US$107m Loan
• Dangote Starts Preparations for 6000 tpd Cement Factory in Nepal, Startup by June 2017
• Dangote Group to Open 3rd Cement Factory in Cameroon

Food

• Tulip Pork Plant Expansion to Create 145 New Jobs in UK
• Conagra, Meijer Joint Venture to Invest $150m for Netherlands Plant Expansion
• Oman to Set Up $258.8m Dairy Plant
• Mondelez Breaks Ground on $90m Biscuit Plant in Bahrain
• Mondelez to Ramp up Capacity at Confectionery Plant in Turkey
• Pepsico Expands Middle East Footprint with New Snack Plant in Saudi Arabia
• Gruma to Invest $50m in New Russian Tortilla Production Plant

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SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY UPDATE

March 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Picosun, NCTU Invest in New ALD Facility in Taiwan

Skysilicon Makes GaN Power Device on 8-inch GaN-on-Si Wafer

SMIC, Start-Up Group Manufacture CMOS Image Sensors

Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Industry Update

March 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS

UNITED STATES

KVK-Tech Acquires Lockheed Martin Site in Pennsylvania

H3 Biomedicine New Research Facility

University of Maryland has New Health Sciences Research Facility III (HSF III)

New Williamson Translational Research Building at Geisel School of Medicine

Intertek to Expand and Relocate Its Bioanalytical LC-MS Facility

Particle Sciences to Expand Sterile Manufacturing

Xcelience to Expand Headquarter Operations in Tampa

Millstone Completes Headquarters Expansion

Georgia Tech, Engineered Biosystems Building, Atlanta

Norman Noble to Open Process Development Center in Florida

Patheon Expands Comprehensive Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Services

The George Washington University Opens Science and Engineering Hall, Largest Building of Its Kind in D.C.

Kite Pharma Expands Clinical Manufacturing for T-Cell Therapies

Baxter's New Biopharma Baxalta to Have Headquarters in Illinois

Hemispherx Upgrades New Jersey Plant

VWR Expands with New England Biolabs

Aprecia Leases Forest Labs Site as Production Hub

Repligen Finishes Plant Expansion

Mack Molding to Expand Cleanroom Molding and Assembly Capacity

Cynata Validates Stem Cell Manufacturing Process at Wisconsin Biomanufacturing Site

inVentiv to Open Miami Phase I Clinic

Horizon Pharma Opens Chicago Office

Children's Hospital LA to Expand Center for Personalized Medicine

Enteris BioPharma Launches Contract Manufacturing

Israeli Biotech Company Evogene to Build R&D Facility in St. Louis

Univ. of California, San Diego (UCSD) Muir College Biology Labs renovation

Pii Expands CTM Services

Charles River Plans to Re-Open Massachusetts Preclinical Site

REST OF WORLD

Chicago-based AbbVie (ABBV) will expand its Operations in Puerto Rico

New Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Montreal

Dr. Reddy’s Opens Center of Excellence in India

GSK Picks Singapore for Asia HQ

Johnson Matthey built High Containment Facilities in Edinburgh, Scotland

CureVac to build Plant with Gates Foundation Money

WuXi to More than Double US Cell Therapy Manufacturing with New Site

Ardmac to Deliver Cleanrooms at New Rayner Facility

BAM Wins Life Science Facility Contract from Coventry University

Takeda Expands Pharma Operations in Singapore

SAFC Dry Powder Media Manufacturing Plant, Scotland, United Kingdom

Gilead to Expand Operations in UK Capital

Samsung BioLogics to Expand New Songdo Plant

Patheon Adds New Filling Technology to Milton Park Facility

G-CON Manufacturing Selected to Build ISO 5 POD for Instituto Butantan

Expansion for Bioanalysis Studies at the International Pharmaceutical Research Center

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World Municipal Wastewater Project News Headlines Provided Monthly

April 2015

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BUSINESS

• Suez Environment consolidates under Single Brand
• U.S. Headworks Company acquired by Italy-based WAMGROUP

AFRICA

• Egypt:  Metito awarded 4 Water Projects Totaling over US$28 Million

ASIA

• Australia:  90 Percent of Tasmania’s WWTPs fail to meet Environmental Standards
• India:  Treated Sewage from Bengaluru May be used to Restore 134 Dry Lakes
• India:  VA Tech WABAG Awarded US$35 Million Ganga Action Plan Project
• Malaysia:  Bina Puri Awarded US$78 Million Contract to Build WWTP in Kuala Lumpur
• Philippines:  Maynilad Awards Muntinlupa WWTP Contract to Degremont Consortium

EUROPE

• Belgium:  EIB Approves €100 Million Loan to Flemish Wastewater Operator TMVW
• Spain:  Veolia Awarded Contract to Upgrade La Cartuja WWTP
• UK:  EC Refers UK to Court Over Inadequate Urban Wastewater Treatment
• UK:  Severn Trent Plans to Invest £190 Million in Renewable Energy
• UK:  Laing O’Rourke JV Awarded £170 Million Davyhulme WWTP Upgrade Project

LATIN AMERICA

• Mexico:  Tuchtlan Sewage Treatment Plant Starts up in Chiapas

MIDDLE EAST

• Saudi Arabia: Kingdom Sets Goal of 100% Wastewater Reuse in Urban Areas

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WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECT HEADLINES

Fuel:  Coal

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