Wabag Philippines has won a project to retrofit and upgrade the 900,000 m3/d La Mesa-2 water treatment plant in Manila, Philippines.

ISO9001 certification is helping to drive up standards yet it can still be attained on even poor products, writes Jonathan Smith…

Xylem is to buy Pure Technologies, building on a commercial partnership whereby it represents Pure in parts of the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia.

UK smart water network solutions firm i2O has opened its first office in the Middle East and North Africa to support clients in the region.

A consortium of Spain’s FCC Aqualia and Aqualia Mexico has won a competitive bidding process for a desalination plant project in Sonora, Mexico.

Arrow has bought eInfochips to expand Arrow’s IoT “sensor-to-sunset” platform by adding engineering, solution architecture, embedded software development, security, mobile device connectivity, app development, cloud configuration and management, and managed services including big-data analytics. “Upon close of this acquisition, eInfochips advances our IoT strategy, expands our offerings, and moves us into the rapidly growing IoT services …

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November IC sales were 21.5% up on November 2016 and 1.6% up on October 2017 at $37.7 billion, reports the SIA. All major regional markets posted both year-to-year and month-to-month sales increases in November, with the Americas market leading the way. “The global semiconductor industry reached another key milestone in November, notching its highest-ever monthly …

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Schützinger’s Kelvin four-wire measurement connectors are now available from JPR Electronics. The connectors allow engineers to measure current and voltage through two opposing measurement channels removing any effects on the measured result due to the resistance of the measuring leads and thermo-voltages. Due to the coaxial arrangement of plug contacts at the instrument end, minimal …

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The SEMI World Fab Forecast data shows fab equipment spending in 2017 totalling $57bn, an increase of 41% year on year. In 2018, spending is expected to increase 11% to US$63bn. While many companies, including Intel, Micron, Toshiba (and Western Digital), and Globalfoundries increased fab investments for 2017 and 2018, the strong increase reflects spending …

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Samsung has unveiled a curved 34in OLED monitor with a Thunderbolt 3 connector. “The CJ791 monitor is the first curved monitor to feature Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 connectivity,” said Samsung. “Designed for entertainment and business audiences, the 34in model aligns single-source power and processing speed with an exceptional picture quality for a comfortable and productive user …

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