About Us

BZ Engineering Briefings was launched in April 2008 as an imprint of Blue Zulu Ltd, a publishing company and marketing consultancy. The company publishes specialist and bespoke market reports in the engineering markets, specializing in the pump industry. Blue Zulu Ltd provides freelance editorial and marketing support for publishers and conference organizers.

Research Director – Mark Purvis

Mark Purvis is the Research Director at Blue Zulu Ltd. He has twenty years experience of reporting on the pump industry and related engineering sectors. A Chemistry graduate of the University of Oxford, he was first appointed by Elsevier as Editor of its leading international pump industry magazine World Pumps in 1989 and has been writing about the pump industry ever since.

He served as a Corresponding Member of the Advisory Committee of the Texas A & M University Pump Users Symposium for many years and was a member of the Europump Publications & PR Commission for more than ten years.

As Managing Editor and then Publisher, he introduced numerous developments to Elsevier’s publishing programme, including the launch of the Sealing Technology and Pump Industry Analyst newsletters, a series of highly valued market research reports (Profiles of the International Pump Industry) and other information products and services for the pump industry. He left Elsevier in 2006 but continues to write about the pump industry and other areas of industrial technology.

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