Grundfos and the Danish Embassy Convened Leaders on Sustainable Infrastructure in the Buckeye State

Grundfos participated in a Danish government-led delegation to Ohio and worked in close coordination to strengthen commercial and policy engagement at the state level. The visit brought together public officials, utilities, developers and Danish solution providers for a multi-day programme focused on water, energy and digital infrastructure.

“Our approach is to engage across the United States where we see meaningful growth ahead, and Ohio is clearly one of those places,” said Grundfos US Country President Ansell Sims.

Ansell Sims joined Danish Ambassador Jesper Møller Sørensen and met with Governor Mike DeWine recently. The delegation combined diplomatic access with practical industry dialogue and positioned Grundfos and other Danish companies as part of a broader effort to strengthen collaboration between the United States and Denmark at the state level.

Our partners at the Danish Embassy helped us build bridges with state leaders and industry around shared priorities. For Grundfos, this meant strengthening relationships in key U.S. markets and showing how Danish water solutions could support economic development while ensuring long-term resource responsibility.

Ansell Sims, Grundfos US Country President

A central part of the delegation’s programme involved the Danish Water Technology Alliance’s two-day seminar series, which the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District in Cleveland and Columbus Water & Power in Columbus hosted. The sessions focused on energy efficiency, resource recovery, digitalisation, non-revenue water and water efficiency, and they coincided with a planned memorandum of understanding between the alliance and Columbus Water & Power.

Grundfos also contributed to discussions on Ohio’s rapidly growing digital infrastructure sector. At the “Future Ready Data Centres” workshop in New Albany, stakeholders explored how to scale responsibly and addressed water use, cooling, energy demand, permitting and long-term infrastructure planning. Grundfos participated in the Danish company showcase and highlighted solutions that supported sustainable and efficient data centre operations.

The visit took place in the context of 225 years of diplomatic relations between Denmark and the United States and reinforced a continued focus on state-level collaboration where many infrastructure decisions take place.