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The Lined Valve Company (LVC) has created a handy guide to help customers better select which knife gate they should purchase. The handy guide can be downloaded from the company’s website to help with selection whether it is for abrasion resistance for the cement industry or a uni-directional knife gate for sludge hoopers.

On Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST, Siemens will be hosting an webinar. This past April, Siemens has enhanced the SIPART PS2 valve performance diagnostics by incorporating four offline valve performance tests and this is what the course will focus on.

One of the largest global manufacturers of industrial sensors and control products, Ifm efector USA, is almost finished building its new North American Headquarters in the Atwater Corporate Center In Pennsylvania, USA.

Sierra Instruments has launched their new line of premium control valves named SmartVO™. SmartVO control valves offer a robust and field-proven, direct-acting electromagnetic proportional control valve technology to perform over a wide variety of temperature and pressure variations in the gas stream.

Pentair Valves & Controls is expanding its Anderson Greenwood pressure relief product range with the launch of an improved design of its pilot-operated pressure relief valve (POPRV) model for LNG storage for onshore and offshore applications.

Engineer Weir Group PLC has announced that it has agreed to acquire Delta Industrial Valves Inc., a U.S.-based manufacturer of valves for the mining, oil sands and other industrial markets, for an enterprise value of up to $47 million USD.

For applications with significant hazard potential in the oil & gas sector and other industrial markets, fail safe actuators are required. These specialist devices automatically open and close valves in the event of emergency, even with disrupted power supply.

Saint-Gobain will be featuring its OmniSeal line of products at the upcoming Valve World Americas Expo at booth 1052. The OmniSeal spring-energized seal product line, which can be used in a wide range of applications from cryogenic to high temperature and high pressure environments, are a result of the company working closely with their customers through integrated co-design to develop systems that fulfill the increasing performance requirements for engineered valves.

Valve safety device interlocking specialist, Alcatraz Interlocks, will be celebrating 25 years of designing & manufacturing valve interlocks for the protection of life and property. Alcatraz Interlocks was founded 25 years ago in Belgium under a name that did not reflect its innovation in design and shortly after formed the name Alcatraz Interlocks.

Valve World Americas Expo & Conference 2015 is being held this week from Wednesday, July 15th and Thursday July 16th, 2015 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. The Expo & Conference will serve as the meeting point for the flow control industry - showcasing the growth in interest by exhibitors and attendees who will experience the technologically in-depth conference program, product showcases on the expo floor and incredible networking opportunities.