
Britam Foundation has partnered with Davis & Shirtliff's Improving Lives Initiative to rehabilitate boreholes and install solar-powered pumps and panels in 21 primary schools across Kenya.

The D&S/Flowserve partnership has been officially launched in public at an event organized for industry professionals at the Sarova Panafric Hotel in Nariobi. Hosted by MD Edward Davis and Flowserve senior officials Jos Wilmaerts and Edouard Morlac, the event served to highlight the strategic fit between the two organizations, who have agreed to work exclusively with each other across the Eastern and Central African regions.

September is a busy time for the D&S Group as we move into Q4 and start the annual Planning process, always an important period for us. The year so far has not been without its challenges, especially in Kenya with its constraining economic conditions and market disruptions, though D&S continues to progress as it keeps investing for the future.

Under International Development Director Anthony Wangondu, several new branches have recently opened in Bujumbura (Burundi), Rusizi (Rwanda) and Ntinda. The new branches will deliver on the D&S commitment to bring its range of water and energy solutions closer to those who need them in the wider region.

USAID implementing partner RTI/Power Africa have selected Davis & Shirtliff to conduct a series of capacity building initiatives in the solar technology ecosystem. On account of its wide footprint in the region, technical training competence and solar technology expertise, the D&S Group is an ideal partner providing a natural fit to the wider objectives of USAID and its affiliates.

While basic centrifugal pump design has not changed significantly for many years, great strides forward have recently been made in the area of pump control with smart pump technology now available in several new models from Dayliff.

May is the company mid-year that coincides with D&S's founding in 1946, now 78 years ago! Very few companies anywhere achieve this longevity, especially under the same family ownership and Founders Day is duly celebrated Group-wide to celebrate the occasion. In Kenya the event also marked groundbreaking at the new Tatu Engineering Centre, the Group's priority project that will provide the resource base for our ever expanding engineering and technical activities.