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New material for LESER API-safety relief valves

Along with LESER’s March introduction of its latest construction for API-safety relief valves, the Balanced Piston Design, the company most recently launched the latest optimization for API safety relief valves.

Technip awarded major NG field contract

Technip, which has branches in North and South America, has been awarded a major contract to develop the Bahr Essalam, Phase II development in the Central Mediterranean Sea.

AIV to distribute GWC Italia valves in US

GWC Italia, formerly GWC Valves, recently announced they have entered into a Master Distributor Agreement with AIV for the US market.

Atlas Copco expands compressor range

Atlas Copco, a manufacturer of industrial tools and equipment with multiple branches in North and South America, will be expanding its compressor range, starting in mid-2016.

Suncor Energy resumes oil-sands operations

Suncor Energy Inc. recently restarted oil-sands operations in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, an area in Canada that includes wildfire-ravaged Fort McMurray.

Join us at Pump Summit Americas 2016!

The first ever Pump Summit Americas is just around the corner, taking place across two days on June 13th and 14th, 2016 at the George R.

NASA inflates expanding room on ISS

NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room  aboard  the International Space Station (ISS) recently, in what could be the first step towards entire inflatable space stations.

Join us at Fugitive Emissions Summit Americas

The first ever Fugitive Emissions Summit Americas is just around the corner, set to take place June 13th – 14th, 2016 at the George R.

FMC Technologies and Technip to merge

FMC Technologies Inc. of Houston, Texas, US, and Technip, of Paris, France, will combine to form TechnipFMC, in a move the two companies said will create a “comprehensive and flexible offering across each market from concept to project delivery and beyond.

Bee Valve offers wide range of in-line strainers

Elyria, Ohio-based Bee Valve Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of low-pressure fluid control and handling products including couplers, adapters, strainers, ball valves fittings and gauges, offers a full range of polypropylene in-line strainers.