Actuation

Promotion Engineering has released a reversible spring return electric actuator which is  designed for load requirements up to 133”lbs.

Schunk is now offering a compact valve box which is directly attached to the PGN-plus gripper and helps to increase actuation speed by up to 100%.

The Mack Valve rubber seated butterfly valve, which now uses the same black color and painting procedure of the current pipeline supply, has an exclusive anti-blowout stem device that guarantees safe operation and maintenance.

Engineered Software, Inc., developer of PIPE-FLO and PUMP-FLO design and selection programs, has been approved as an associate member of the Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA).

Flowserve Corporation has announced the release of Flowserve ValveSight™ for the Limitorque MX/QX family of smart electric actuators.

ITT Engineered Valves recently introduced the Fabri-Valve® 33 PTD push-through slurry valve. Designed with proprietary technology to meet the harsh demands of light to medium slurry applications, the 33 PTD has out performed other slurry valves used in the industry in both field trials and the laboratory.

Valve automation specialist Automated Valve & Controls (AVC) has doubled the size of its facility and relocated to Market Street in Houston, Texas.

The new Sharktooth provides excellent throttling characteristics, plus aerodynamic noise attenuation, and liquid cavitation reductions. An innovative Control Cartridge is used to turn triple eccentric butterfly valves into control valves with exceptional control characteristics, as well as Class IV, V, or VI metal-to-metal, fire safe shut-off. They are readily available in carbon steel, stainless steel and special alloys for liquids, gasses, and steam at temperatures from cryogenic up to 850F in 150, 300 and 600 ANSI pressure classes, from 3 in through 48 in, with a wide choice of actuators and control accessories.

A variety of stepper drivers from Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, Inc., (Haydon Kerk) are now available for 24 hour shipment.  There’s a stepper driver offered for immediate shipment that will work with virtually any size linear actuator offered by Haydon Kerk.

Assured Automation's "Valve + Actuator" VA series operating life has been tested to over one million cycles. The series combines a pneumatic actuator and a fast on-off control valves into one body to eliminate packing glands, actuators and mounting kits.