Crane Co. (NYSE: CR), a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, announced today that it has sold the buildings and land at its Ipswich, England facility to Borderbeach Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allied Property and Leisure Limited, a commercial real estate developer in England, for $36 million as part of a restructuring of its remaining foundry operations.

Parker Hannifin Corporation and FedEx Ground, a unit of FedEx Corp., today announced they have agreed to test a Class 6 vehicle employing hybrid hydraulic technology that seeks to improve fuel mileage by greater than 50 percent and significantly reduce engine emissions.

Flowserve Corporation, a leading global provider of fluid motion and control products and services, announced on Wednesday that it had received orders for the Pearl Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plant being developed by Qatar Petroleum and Shell in Qatar.

On 5 December, Group Chairman Niels Due Jensen was honoured with the American National Ground Water Association’s (NGWA’s) Equipment Design Award for Grundfos’ compact SQ and SQE submersible pumps, which are primarily used for private water supply, but also in waterworks, agriculture and industry.

Ongoing, reliable flow measurement as part of their water quality monitoring system, is an important requirement at Glaxo Smith-Kline’s manufacturing plant in Harlow, where a significant amount of WFI, ‘Ultra Pure Water’ is used.

Parker Hannifin Corporation today announced that it has acquired the shares of Norwegian manufacturer Scan Subsea ASA. Scan Subsea, publicly traded on the Oslo Exchange, has projected sales of approximately $130 million this calendar year.

With still one and a half years to go, the 29. ACHEMA International Exhibition-Congress on Chemical Engineering, Environmental Protection and Biotechnology, the world’s summit for the chemical process industries, will take place from May 11 – 15, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main.

Gardner Denver announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a new share repurchase program to acquire up to 2.7 million shares of the Company’s outstanding common stock, representing 5 percent of the Company’s outstanding shares.

Earth Tech, Inc has begun work with SA Water on a USD$4.2 million (AUD$4.7 million) extension of the Virginia Pipeline Scheme to deliver an additional three billion litres a year of Class A recycled water to Angle Vale area in the Northern Adelaide Plains in Australia.

New DRENAG 1000-1200 has been projected and designed to drain clear wastewater, sandy, slimy and muddy water, containing solids up to 10 mm.

DAB PUMPS has widened his range for in–line pumps with new in-line CME and CPE. The new range will be available starting from October 2007.

Hayward Tyler Group Ltd – a leading manufacturer, supplier and service repairer of pumps and motors – has received further orders for 16 Glandless Wet Stator Boiler Circulation Pumps (BCP) from the Shanghai Boiler Works Ltd (SBWL).

One of the biggest problems when using pumps is dry running, up till now; there have been no solid answers.