Materials & Manufacturing

On June 3, 2015, Wolseley Canada held its 10th annual Wolseley Classic golf tournament in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised $51,000 CAD in support of Special Olympics (SO). Proceeds from the tournament, which was held at Bel Acres Golf and Country Club, will be donated to SO Manitoba and SO Canada.

The QuadroSphere® Ball Valve from Val-Matic Valve & Manufacturing Corporation is a forged-steel, trunnion-mounted ball valve that is designed to serve a variety of applications where typical trunnion ball valves often experience problems.

Each of the two Valve World Americas conference days will begin with a series of three exciting plenary lectures that will run in total for a full hour from 8:30am to 9:30am. The first plenary on the second morning, Thursday July 15th, will begin at 8:30am and the topic will be revealed within the upcoming weeks.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation announced that it will expand its existing Horizon Pipeline System for an estimated capital cost of approximately USD 125M. Horizon, a 513km pipeline, was originally commissioned in 2008 and built to connect Canadian Natural Resources' Horizon Oil Sands facility to refineries, export pipelines and other delivery locations in the Edmonton area.

Exton, PA—DFT Inc., an industry leader in the manufacture of valves, has released its new BNC™ Check Valve, a nozzle-style, axial-flow check valve specifically designed to excel in high-pressure applications.

Each of the two Valve World Americas conference days will begin with a series of three exciting plenary lectures that will run in total for a full hour from 8:30am to 9:30am. On the first morning, Wednesday July 15th, at 8:30am the Valve World Americas Chairman Mr.

Pentair Valves & Controls recently showcased its expanded portfolio of specialised products for the LNG industry at the World Gas Conference (WGC) 2015 in Paris, France earlier this month. Enhancing its current range of products for use across the entire LNG chain, Pentair introduced the Vanessa Series 30,000 Buttweld Top Entry Body Triple Offset Valve (TOV), an FCT cryogenic ball valve and a new Anderson Greenwood 9300H pilot operated pressure relief valve at WGC.

The second morning of Valve World Americas Conference & Exhibition on July 16th will host a series of three hot-topic workshops that will be held concurrently from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. The hardest part of attending the conference will be choosing which workshop to go to on the second day! Each informative workshop will focus on a different topic relevant to the valve industry and will have a moderator as well as a panel made up of the who’s who of manufacturers, end-users and EPCs.

On Thursday July 16th, the second afternoon of the Valve World Americas Conference, there will be three educational workshops held concurrently from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. The first workshop in this set will be about Comprehensive Approaches on Materials Specification.

Grundfos has pared its submersible SEG grinder pumps with its lift stations to produce a packaged system for collecting and transferring wastewater from buildings, municipal pressurized sewage systems and remote areas.