Innovations and solutions

Festo, which has locations throughout the United States, has launched a new generation of NAMUR valves. The valve range offers a choice of coils suitable for many applications across a wide range of industries including chemical, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, water & wastewater and food processing.

Chimp is a disaster response robot with a four-limb drive that will be one of 25 robots competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge final showdown. The three-year competition-inspired by the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident-is motivating the development of robotic technologies for use in hazardous environments.

The privately-held specialty hydraulic sourcing firm, IC-Fluid Power, has announced its newly updated line card for 2015. The IC-Fluid Power line card provides a comprehensive resource for hydraulic products, in-house capabilities and benefits of working with IC-Fluid Power.

The Supa Maxi™ gate valve combines AVK's renowned Supa Maxi and gate valve designs ensuring a long lasting solution with ease of installation, and is the perfect choice for repairing old pipelines as well as when installing new pipes.

Burrow Industries, located in Temperance, Michigan, has introduced the Positive Flow Control valve. It is a cut-off valve for auger filling of fine products for the food and pharmaceutical industries. The Positive Flow Control valve is made of 303 stainless steel and FDA-approved for food.

Victaulic, manufacturer of mechanical pipe-joining and fire-protection systems, announced a joint business venture with Bermad, a leading global producer of hydraulic water and air valve technologies. The new business partnership, called Victaulic Bermad Technologies (VBT), will be based in Houston, Texas, and will be focusing on select markets and applications, including commercial fire protection – expanding the Victaulic valve and device offering in the US and Canadian regions.

SUSTAKON is the first semi-finished product made of the new polyketone (PK) material. This material opens up brand-new options for engineers for manufacturing parts of plants and machines. Due to its chemical structure, the polyketone (PK) SUSTAKON offers a unique combination of mechanical, tribological and chemical characteristics.

On Thursday July 16th, the second morning of the Valve World Americas Conference, there will be three educational workshops held concurrently from 10:30am to noon. The first workshop will focus on Variables in the Design of a Valve and will be moderated by Carlos Davila from Crane.

Tesoro Corporation announced today that Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC (Tesoro) is upgrading its crude oil rail car fleet with the addition of 210 enhanced tank cars that exceed new safe transport standards that were issued by the U.

Iman Chalabi a third-year student in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has won the top prize in the 2015 Minerva Canada James Ham Safe Design Awards for designing a system that renders crude oil cargo non-flammable in the event of train derailment or collision.