ITT’s Residential & Commercial Water business expanded its presence in South Asia with the opening of its first regional office in New Delhi, India. The new office will be under the supervision of Regional Sales Manager Nikhil Kapoor and will be responsible for sales throughout South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries. The New Delhi office will sell a variety of R&CW brands, including Goulds Pumps, Bell & Gossett, Lowara, A-C Fire Pump and other ITT products to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Bhutan.

To commemorate the opening of the new India office, ITT senior management, office staff and India sales channel took part in a traditional Indian inauguration ceremony. Participants included Bill Taylor, president of ITT China, and Brenda Reichelderfer, senior vice-president and chief technology officer of ITT Corp. The ceremony included a ribbon cutting, the traditional breaking of coconuts to signify good fortune, lighting of lamps inside of the new offices, and a blessing from His Grace Shri Rukmini Krishna Das and other priests.