Materials & Manufacturing

Following its recent acquisition of the US-based biotechnology company Virdia, Stora Enso is investing EUR 32M in a demonstration and market development plant to be built at Raceland, Louisiana, USA. The plant will be used for industrial validation of the newly acquired extraction and separation technology developed by Virdia that enables cellulosic biomass, such as wood or agricultural waste, to be converted into highly refined sugars.

Murata Machinery USA, a leading manufacturer of high-volume CNC production machinery for industrial applications, introduced its new ML400L shaft-turning machine. “The ML400L is a longer version of Muratec’s ML400 shaft turning machine”, said Steve Landrum, North American Sales Manager of Murata Machinery USA’s Turning business unit.

The McIlvaine Company has released a new report called “Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Market”.

Victaulic, the manufacturer of mechanical pipe-joining systems, has received type approvals from American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Bureau Veritas (BV), Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Korean Register and Lloyd’s Register for Vic-Press, a flame-free press system for joining small-diameter stainless steel pipe.

Japan-based KITZ Corporation released its new industrial butterfly valve series, high performance double offset type and triple offset type.KITZ supplies double eccentric butterfly valves in pressure rating class 150 and 300, in size range from 2" to 160" with seat materials made of rubber, RTFE or metal.

An international EPC provider contacted Aerodyne recently for new rotary valves for a customised smelting process. The company needed roughly 17 rotary valves to handle arsenic dust from a feeder. The temperature of the application ranged from 5°C to 45°C.

Acro Associates, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bimba Manufacturing, launched the Versagrip Solenoid Pinch Valves, a solenoid (electric) product line designed to provide greater flexibility for a wide array of fluidic control system applications.

Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected by Saint-Gobain to provide planning, interior design and engineering services for the company’s new 320,000ft2 North American headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

Voith has won a service contract to modernize three hydropower generators at the Kettle Generating Station in Manitoba, Canada. Voith is a mechanical engineering company specializing in the energy, oil & gas, paper, transportation & automotive, and raw materials industries.

Saint-Gobain Seals’ OmniSeal spring-energised anti-blowout seal has been qualified as a static seal in rocket engine check valves for the aerospace industry. In most cases, design engineers integrate check valves into their rocket engine designs.