New president of Iwaki America

Miersma, who was executive vice president of Iwaki America prior to this promotion, succeeds Ron Yates who is now chairman and CEO.

Holliston, Massachusetts, USA-based Iwaki America Inc is a subsidiary of Iwaki Co Ltd and includes both Iwaki’s pump operations in the Americas and the global operations of Iwaki’s Walchem controls business.

Iwaki engineers and produces pneumatic drive pumps, metering & dosing pumps, air pumps, gear pumps, turbine pumps and sealless, non-metallic magnetic drive centrifugal pumps and systems for a broad array of fluid management applications.

Walchem designs and manufactures integrated advanced sensing, monitoring and control systems for a wide range of water treatment applications.

Miersma is a past chairman and president of the Hydraulic Institute.