Flowserve Corporation (NYSE: FLS), a leading provider of flow control
products and services for the global infrastructure markets, today
announced it plans to hold a conference call to discuss its 2009 first
quarter financial results on Thursday, April 30 at 11 am Eastern time.
Lewis Kling, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Mark Blinn,
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Latin America
Operations, will be presenting.
The company plans to file its form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange
Commission as well as issue its earnings release and earnings call
presentation for the first quarter after the close of the New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE) on Wednesday, April 29, in advance of the call.
The call is being webcast by Thomson Reuters and can be accessed at the
Flowserve website at www.flowserve.com,
under the Investor Relations section.
The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson Reuters
StreetEvents network. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com,
the Thomson Reuters individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents.
Institutional investors can access the call via StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com),
a password-protected event management site.
About Flowserve Corp.
Flowserve Corp. is one of the world’s leading providers of fluid motion
and control products and services. Operating in more than 55 countries,
the company produces engineered and industrial pumps, seals and valves
as well as a range of related flow management services. More information
about Flowserve can be obtained by visiting the company’s Web site at www.flowserve.com.
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uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially from what is
forecast in such forward-looking statements, and include, without
limitation, the following: a portion of our bookings may not lead to
completed sales, and our ability to convert bookings into revenues at
acceptable profit margins; risks associated with cost overruns on
fixed-fee projects and in taking customer orders for large complex
custom engineered products requiring sophisticated program management
skills and technical expertise for completion; the substantial
dependence of our sales on the success of the petroleum, chemical, power
and water industries; the adverse impact of volatile raw materials
prices on our products and operating margins; economic, political and
other risks associated with our international operations, including
military actions or trade embargoes that could affect customer markets,
particularly Middle Eastern markets and global petroleum producers, and
non-compliance with U.S. export/re-export control, foreign corrupt
practice laws, economic sanctions and import laws and regulations; our
furnishing of products and services to nuclear power plant facilities;
potential adverse consequences resulting from litigation to which we are
a party, such as litigation involving asbestos-containing material
claims; a foreign government investigation regarding our participation
in the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program; risks associated with
certain of our foreign subsidiaries conducting business operations and
sales in certain countries that have been identified by the U.S. State
Department as state sponsors of terrorism; our relative geographical
profitability and its impact on our utilization of deferred tax assets,
including foreign tax credits, and tax liabilities that could result
from audits of our tax returns by regulatory authorities in various tax
jurisdictions; the potential adverse impact of an impairment in the
carrying value of goodwill or other intangibles; our dependence upon
third-party suppliers whose failure to perform timely could adversely
affect our business operations; changes in the global financial markets
and the availability of capital; our dependence on our customers’
ability to make required capital investment and maintenance
expenditures; the highly competitive nature of the markets in which we
operate; environmental compliance costs and liabilities; potential work
stoppages and other labor matters; our inability to protect our
intellectual property in the U.S., as well as in foreign countries;
obligations under our defined benefit pension plans; and other factors
described from time to time in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
All forward-looking statements included in this news release are based
on information available to us on the date hereof, and we assume no
obligation to update any forward-looking statement.