Flowserve Signs Valve Manufacturing Joint Venture With S&A Abahsain Co. Ltd.

From Chemical Online:

Flowserve Corporation (NYSE: FLS), a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, today announced the signing of a joint venture agreement with S&A Abahsain Co. Ltd., a diverse Saudi Arabian business entity, spanning industry, trading, construction, real estate and services.

Building on existing joint ventures with the Flowserve Pump and Seal divisions, Abahsain and Flowserve have expanded their relationship to include the manufacturing of control valves, ball valves, plug valves, butterfly valves, and electric and pneumatic actuators for the oil and gas, petrochemical, power and water industries.

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Flowserve Signs Valve Manufacturing Joint Venture With S&A Abahsain Co. Ltd.

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Berlin Technologies

Flowserve Reports Record Full Year 2008 EPS of $7.74, up 74%

From finanzen.net: Flowserve Corp. (NYSE: FLS), a global leader in the fluid motion and control industry, announced today record full year and fourth quarter earnings per share and sales in its 2008 Form 10-K Report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company announced record full year and fourth quarter fully diluted EPS of $7.74, up 74% and $2.03, up 22%, respectively, and full year and fourth quarter operating income of $613 million, up 50% and $159 million, up 16%, respectively.

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Flowserve Reports Record Full Year 2008 EPS of $7.74, up 74%

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Berlin Technologies

Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps for Power Plants

From ThomasNet: Vooner offers conical port liquid ring vacuum pumps for removing non-condensable gases from condensers. The VTS Series of two stage liquid vacuum pumps are commonly used for removing gases under normal condenser operating conditions to 1.0"HgA or lower while providing greater low vacuum capacity to assist with hogging or handle upset conditions.

The VG and V4 Series' of single stage liquid ring vacuum pumps with capacities to 13,000 ACFM are commonly used in condenser hogging applications and available in stainless steel construction for geothermal condenser service.

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Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps for Power Plants

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Berlin Technologies

Hydraulic Institute Launches New Positive Displacement Pump e-Learning Course

From ThomasNet:

Hydraulic Institute (HI), the pump industry's knowledge leader and foremost resource for pump education, has launched its latest pump industry e-Learning program titled "Positive Displacement Pumps: Fundamentals, Design and Applications." The comprehensive Positive Displacement (PD) Pump course is an Internet-delivered educational program designed to provide individual users with a broad, comprehensive knowledge of PD pumping technologies. The material is visual and interactive, allowing students to take full advantage of the latest learning technology.

Created by positive displacement pump experts associated with 12 separate HI member companies, the course has been developed for pump users, manufacturers and distributors, mechanical engineers, contractors, engineering consulting firms, students and others who work with pumps and pumping systems.

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Hydraulic Institute Launches New Positive Displacement Pump e-Learning Course

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Berlin Technologies

Taco Introduces Line of Vertical Turbine Pumps

From ThomasNet: There's always something new at TACO-HVAC.com. This week, that includes an extensive new line of vertical turbine pumps-30 models and 11 five-foot column assemblies-for a broad range of water supply and transfer applications. Taco introduced the pumps just a few weeks ago at the recent AHR Expo.

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Taco Introduces Line of Vertical Turbine Pumps

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Berlin Technologies

Pumping Systems Training Seminar on April

From Pumps & Systems:

Pumping Systems Training Seminar April 27-28

The Submersible Wastewater Pump Association (SWPA) will present its 8th Annual Pumping Systems Training Seminar, April 27-28 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Co-sponsored by Pumps & Systems, this unique program has become an industry leadership event, attracting consulting engineers, designers, specifiers, users, distributors, reps, product managers, sales and marketing managers, product specialists, customer service representatives, and many others with an interest in the design, applications and use of submersible wastewater pumps and pumping systems for municipal and industrial applications.

For additional information, contact SWPA Headquarters at 847-681-1868 (e-mail:swpaexdir@sbcglobal.net) or visit the SWPA Web Site at www.swpa.org

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Berlin Technologies

Bushing Material helps protect pumps and prolong pump life

From ThomasNet: GRAPHLON GM 860® is an abrasion-resistant bushing material that protects pumps and helps prolong pump life. Developed by Graphite Metallizing, it is a tough, polymer/graphite-based material used in the manufacture of pump bushings and other critical-wear parts.

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Bushing Material helps protect pumps and prolong pump life

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Berlin Technologies

Torsiflex Couplings Provide Higher Torque, Overcome Failures Due to Fretting

From ThomasNet: Bibby Transmissions, an Altra Industrial Motion brand, has integrated the high torque, high reliability and zero maintenance characteristics of its top-end Turboflex couplings into a new range of Torsiflex disc couplings for more general applications, on process pumps, compressors and motors.

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Torsiflex Couplings Provide Higher Torque, Overcome Failures Due to Fretting

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Berlin Technologies

Flowserve Corp. to Present at Gabelli & Co., Inc.'s 19th Annual Pump, Valve and Motor Symposium

From Yahoo! Finance: Flowserve Corporation (NYSE: FLS - News), a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, today announced that it will be presenting at Gabelli & Co., Inc.’s 19^th Annual Pump, Valve and Motor Symposium in New York on February 18, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Central (9:30 a.m. Eastern). The live presentation can be accessed via the Flowserve.com website under the Investor Relations section.

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Flowserve Corp. to Present at Gabelli & Co., Inc.'s 19th Annual Pump, Valve and Motor Symposium

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Berlin Technologies

Wavefront Energy and Environmental Services Inc. acquisition of Predator Pumps Ltd.

From Yahoo! Finance: Wavefront Energy and Environmental Services Inc. ("Wavefront"), a world leader in fluid injection technology for improved/enhanced oil recovery and groundwater restoration is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition (the "Acquisition") of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Predator Pumps Ltd. ("Predator"), an arms length, privately held Alberta company.

Predator has been in operation since 2008 as an oil service company in the heavy oil industry, operating in western Canada. Predator offers complementary products to Wavefront Sand Pumps and Rentals Ltd., more specifically; sand pumps and wellbore cleaning equipment.

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Wavefront Energy and Environmental Services Inc. acquisition of Predator Pumps Ltd

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Berlin Technologies