Materials & Manufacturing

It has been announced that Sulzer has completed the acquisition of JWC Environmental, LLC. JWC is a leading provider of highly engineered, mission-critical solids reduction and removal products such as grinders, screens, and dissolved air flotation system for municipal, industrial and commercial wastewater applications.

Ideal for severe service applications is the new Clampseal® Throttling Valve. The valves are available in ½” through 4” sizes through ASME Class 4500.

Vulcan Materials Company, one of the largest construction materials producers in the USA, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this month on December 4th, to mark the completion of a $50 million upgrade to its Stockbridge, Georgia aggregates plant.

Chemical Transportation Group (CTG), based out of New York, has purchased two fully stainless steel parcel tankers, the Bow Neon and the Bow Palladium, for part of its chemtanker fleet.

One of the largest distributors of industrial maintenance, repair, and operation supplies in the United States, Fairmont Supply Company, has announced that Industrial Pipe & Supply of Omaha and Industrial Pipe & Valve of Portland have joined its family of companies.

Valve World Americas is hosting a Valve Essentials Course which will take place on December 5th, 2017 in the Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria in Houston, Texas.

To commemorate a special anniversary, the Board of Directors of the Valve Manufacturers Association (VMA) created a special award: “Man for the Decades.

Massachusetts-based Sensata Technologies has launched the BEI Kimco model LAT22-18, a low cost, direct drive motor that can be integrated into a valve assembly for controlling thermostats as well as fuel metering, air intake shut off, fuel shut off or air start control applications.

New York-headquartered Matco-Norca’s 759LF Ball Valve is now available with a steel locking handle as well as with a tee handle, stainless steel thumb handle and thumb grip options.

California-based GF Piping Systems has introduced a corrosion-resistant pneumatic diaphragm valve that is designed to provide a new, long lasting solution for highly corrosive dosing applications and open/close applications.