Business news 3WORLD PUMPS

GE Hitachi in talks with US suppliersGE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has

signed memorandums of

understanding (MOUs) with

Michigan companies Energy Steel

& Supply Co, Curtiss-Wright Flow

Control and ClydeUnion Pumps to

begin discussions about supplying

components for new nuclear

power plant projects in the United

States and around the world.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

announced the MOUs at the

2010 Nuclear Power Business

Opportunity Conference in

Dearborn, Michigan.

Established in 2007, GE Hitachi

Nuclear Energy is a nuclear

alliance created by GE and

Hitachi to serve the global

nuclear industry, providing

advanced reactors and

nuclear services.

www.gepower.com

Pumps Valves & Pipes Africa 2011 Pumps Valves & Pipes Africa (PVPA)

2011 will take place 7–9 June

2011 in Johannesburg, South

Africa. Pumps Valves & Pipes Africa

2011 is the seventh international

trade fair for suppliers to the

mining, water utility, government,

engineering, manufacturing, food

and beverage, agriculture,

petrochemicals and pulp and

paper sectors. Gavin Doran,

chairperson of the South African

Pump Manufacturers Association

says that the South African pump

sector has some way to go to

reach its pre-recession volumes,

but is expected to do so by the

end of 2011. Doran believes that

the South African government’s

Competitive Supplier Develop-

ment Programme, which is

focused on developing local

industry to reduce South Africa’s

reliance on imported equipment,

will also help to grow the local

pump industry.

www.exhibitionsafrica.com

Hamworthy wins breakthrough order in ChinaHamworthy has won a contract

worth more than £20 million from

the Chinese shipyard Nantong

Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering

Co Ltd, for cargo handling

systems, including deepwell cargo

pumps, on six Liquid Ethylene Gas

(LEG) carriers. Hamworthy will

supply engineering, reliquefaction

plant and deep well cargo pumps.

Joe Oatley, chief executive of

Hamworthy, said: “This is a

breakthrough contract for

Hamworthy in the small gas

carrier market in China and

gives the group a strategically

important reference in this

growing market.”

www.hamworthy.com

Grundfos chairman celebrates 50 years in pumpsGrundfos Group chairman Niels

Due Jensen is celebrating his

50th anniversary with the Danish

pump company.

Due Jensen, who was two

years old when his father Poul

Due Jensen established

Grundfos in the basement of

their home in Bjerringbro,

Denmark, started an apprentice-

ship as an engine fitter in 1960,

and later qualified as a

mechanical engineer at Arhus

Teknikum. He got his first

management role at Grundfos

in 1974 and took charge of the

company in 1977.

www.grundfos.com

Colfax Corp to relocate corporate HQPump and valve manufacturer

Colfax Corp is planning to move

its corporate headquarters from

Richmond, Virginia to the

Columbia, Maryland area.

“We believe our new location, which

is conveniently located between the

greater Washington DC and

Baltimore, Maryland markets, will

provide us with an opportunity to

continue recruiting the associates we

need to build the best team, as

evidenced by some of our recent

successes. We will have improved

access to international travel and to

our key advisors in the immediate

area and the northeast,” said Clay

Kiefaber, Colfax president and CEO.

www.colfaxcorp.com

Patterson-UTI Energy buys pressure pumping assetsPatterson-UTI Energy Inc

subsidiaries Universal Pressure

Pumping Inc and Universal

Wireline Inc have completed

the acquisition of pressure

pumping and wireline assets

from Key Energy Services Inc for

approximately US$238 million

in cash.

Patterson-UTI’s pressure pumping

subsidiaries now have equipment

with approximately 431 000

horsepower, including 340 000

fracturing horsepower and 91 000

horsepower used in cementing,

acidizing and nitrogen stimulation.

http://patenergy.com

MWI attains ISO 9001:2008Moving Water Industries (MWI) has

achieved ISO 9001:2008 certifica-

tion for its Deerfield Beach, Florida

manufacturing plant.

ISO 9001:2008 applies to MWI’s

production operations, including

the design, manufacture and

servicing of axial, mixed flow,

centrifugal and mobile pumps

as well as drill rigs and village

water supply units, rebuilds and

remanufacturing at the

Deerfield Beach facility.

www.mwicorp.com