On July, 07.2005 DUCHTING PUMPEN signed together with our Japanese partner companies Honda Kiko and Seika Sangyo a contract with Babcock Hitachi K.K. Kure, Japan for the deliver of total 22 Absorber Recirculation Pump units and miscellaneous process pumps for the Spanish and Portuguese FGD projects Abono, Soto and Sines. The total order volume is one of the biggest for the FGD application in the company history.