COADE INC. (HOUSTON, TX) . . .
hires Binh Hoang as lead technician in Technical Support –
Plant Design Solutions, focusing on identifying and address-
ing technical issues for customers and for the company’s
worldwide dealer channel involved with process plant design
software products.
COADE provides 2D and 3D engineering and design
software for pipe stress analysis, pressure vessel and compo-
nent design and analysis, process plant design, and oil storage
tank design and analysis per the latest API codes.
www.coade.com
VARISCO S.P.A. (PADOVA, ITALY) . . .
appoints M. Mohsen Abdalla as sales manager North America
for VARISCO U.S.A. to continue the growth of the compa-
ny’s business worldwide.
Varisco produces self-priming centrifugal pumps,
vacuum prime, positive displacement pumps, fire-fighting
pumps, submersible pumps, and other pumps and accesso-
ries. www.variscospa.com
MET-PRO CORPORATION (HARLEYSVILLE, PA) . . .
names Gennaro A. D’Alterio as general manager of the
company’s Dean Pump, Fybroc and Sethco business units.
D’Alterio operates from the Fybroc and Sethco manufactur-
ing facility in Telford, PA.
Met-Pro manufactures equipment for air and liquid
purification, and fluid handling equipment for corrosive,
abrasive and high temperature liquid applications in the
pharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical and other indus-
tries. www.met-pro.com
BLACKMER (GRAND RAPIDS, MI) . . .
appoints William Erwin to the position of director over
Military and Marine, responsible for the overall growth and
development of military and commercial products to mili-
tary agencies.
The Military/Marine Products Group received three
contracts for the next U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier (CVN 78),
named for the late U.S. President Gerald R. Ford. Pumping
applications for the Ford include jet fuel and fire-fighting
foam (AFFF). The lead pumping units — positive displace-
ment rotary vane pumps specially designed for demanding
services on naval combat ships — will undergo shock and
noise qualifications, along with both shipyard and Navy
approval. This process takes more than one-and-a-half years
to complete before the production units are approved for
delivery.
Blackmer manufactures peristaltic hose pumps, eccen-
tric disc pumps, rotary vane positive displacement pumps,
and centrifugal pumps for the LPG, chemical and industrial
processing, energy, food and sanitary, and other industries.
www.blackmer.com
SEEPEX INC. (ENON, OH) . . .
announces that Marty Flach has relocated to Houston, TX
to assume his new role as territory manager – South Texas,
reporting to Todd Cranford, regional sales manager – Mid-
Continent. Flach will be responsible for the entire state of
Louisiana and South Texas, with a special emphasis on the
Energy market along the Gulf Coast. seepex has also closed
the Arlington, TX branch.
seepex develops, manufactures and sells progressive
cavity pumps, macerators, and control systems for the chem-
ical, food, paper, petroleum and gas as well as environmental
engineering and numerous other industries.
www.seepex.com
AROUND THE INDUSTRY
BOC EDWARDS (WILMINGTON, MA) . . .
rebrands itself as Edwards, following its change of owner-
ship in May from The Linde Group (Wiesbaden, Germany).
Founded by F.D. Edwards in 1919, Edwards High Vacuum
International was acquired by The BOC Group in 1968
and became BOC Edwards in 1997. The BOC Group was
acquired by Linde in September 2006.
Edwards supplies vacuum pumps, vacuum technolo-
gies and integrated solutions used in manufacturing micro-
electronics devices and other industrial applications. www.
edwardsvacuum.com
METROPOLITAN INDUSTRIES, INC. (ROMEOVILLE, IL) . . .
celebrates their 50th year in business with a commemorative
flag, a scheduled golf outing and open house.
Metropolitan Industries is a national OEM manufac-
turer, wholesaler and distributor for the commercial, indus-
trial, municipal and residential pump and control markets.
www.metropolitanind.com
Metropolitan raises the flag in front of most of
