SERO PUMPSYSTEMS, INC. (STAFFORD, TX) . . .
opens a new parts distribution center near southwest Houston
to better serve the growing North American marketplace. It can
immediately ship side channel pump replacement parts any-
where within the U.S., Canada and Latin America.
SERO PumpSystems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of
SERO PumpSystems GmbH (Meckesheim, Germany), a side
channel pump manufacturer specializing in low flow, high head
pumping systems with minimal NPSH requirements. www.
seropumps.com
SJE-RHOMBUS CONTROLS (DETROIT LAKES, MN) . . .
is named one of the 50 Best Small & Medium Companies
to Work for in America. The Society for Human Resource
Management announces the companies, which are selected
and ranked by the Great Place to Work® Institute. Results are
based on a randomly distributed employee opinion survey and
information gathered from the company regarding its employ-
ment practices. Each company evaluated was scored based on
employee responses to a detailed questionnaire about their
workplace culture.
SJE-Rhombus manufactures liquid level controls for water,
wastewater, sump and sewage systems. www.sjerhombus.com
(l-r) SJE-Rhombus CEO, Laurie Lewandowski;
SHRM Board Chair, Janet Parker; and SJE-Rhom-
bus HR Manager, Nancy Olson.
EARTH TECH INC. (LONG BEACH, CA) . . .
receives a $4.18 million (CAD$4.5 million) contract from the
City of Toronto, Canada, for engineering design and construc-
tion verification for upgrades to the Waste Activated Sludge
Thickening and Sludge Dewatering Facility at the Highland
Creek Treatment Plant.
Under the 4-yr contract, Earth Tech provides preliminary
engineering design, detailed design and construction contract
administration, along with post-construction monitoring and
reporting. Project components include upgrades to the sludge
thickening facility, installation of new dewatering centrifuges,
relocation of the ferrous chloride facility, and consolidation of
all permits into a single, site-wide Certificate of Approval for
air and noise.
Earth Tech, a business unit of Tyco International Ltd.
(Pembroke, Bermuda), provides consulting, engineering and
construction, and operations services to the water/wastewater,
environmental, and facilities markets. www.earthtech.com
ROTORK CONTROLS, INC. (ROCHESTER, NY) . . .
celebrates its 50th anniver-
sary at its U.S. headquar-
ters with 600 employees,
their families, and invited
guests. Events included
the presentation of a
“Rotork Controls Day”
proclamation by Monroe
County (NY) executive
Maggie Brooks, recog-
nition from New York
governor Eliot Spitzer’s
office, facility tours and
remarks by Rotork CEO
Bill Whiteley. Maggie Brooks presents Rotork
Rotork manufactures president Bob Arnold with a cita-
electric, fluid power, and tion proclaiming “Rotork Day” in the
manual actuators used county.
in municipal water and
wastewater treatment, electric power generation, oil and gas
transmission and storage, chemical processing, pulp and paper
manufacturing, and environmental protection.
www.rotork.com.
IN THE PIPELINE
LARGEST BLAST FURNACE GAS COMBINED-CYCLE
POWER PLANT PUT INTO OFFICIAL OPERATION . . .
at Anshan Iron and Steel Corporation (Angang) (Liaoning,
China) recently. The opening ceremony for the 300-MW
combined-cycle power plant (CCPP) was held at Angang in
Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, reports Industrial Info
Resources.
As an auxiliary project of the West Sheet Steel Mill of
Angang, the CCPP project is the first to use waste gas from a
blast furnace in China. It is the most advanced and the largest
unit of its kind in single capacity in the world at the present
time.
The main component of the project is one 300-MW
gas-steam combined-cycle generating unit imported from
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Shinagawa, Japan), with the
waste gas from the blast furnace as the main fuel for power
generation. Construction began on October 27, 2004. The
project was synchronized to the grid successfully on October
25, 2006. Various construction and commissioning items were
successfully performed in May. The unit passed the 168-hr
continuous full load trial operation and the safety acceptance
