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Festo’s modular approach for wastewater plant automatio

At the upcoming ACE 2015 taking place in Anaheim, California from June 7 to 10, Festo will be presenting a new modular approach to automating water/wastewater and other processing plants. This new approach reduces the time and cost of manufacturing process systems and makes processing plants more adaptable to changing market environments.

PIC valves from Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric has just introduced a new range of Pressure Independent Control (PIC) valves. This new and innovative range of PIC valves are designed for use in a range of hydronic heating and cooling circuits.

Valve World Americas workshop: Channeling the End-user

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 second workshop in this set will be about Channeling your Valves to the End-user/EPC.

Vernay’s V-flow dispenser valves

New V-flow dispenser valves are now available from Vernay. These versatile, bidirectional and customizable engineered dispensing valves can be optimized for your system to allow for effective and precise flow control.

Conval’s automated valve packages

Conval offers a large range of valve packages, such as globe, gate and ball in ½” through to 4” sizes. All of the packages automate processes, improve efficiency, assure precise closing, extend product life, reduce labor costs and allow for integrated remote monitoring and control.

Pembia terminalling services for refinery

Pembina Pipeline Corporation announced that it will provide terminalling services for the North West Redwater Partnership (North West) with respect to North West's planned Sturgeon Refinery. The company also announced that it has entered into agreements to construct a new pipeline lateral in the Karr area of Alberta (the Karr Lateral) to service growing production from the Montney resource play.

SSP adds multipurpose ball valves to portfolio

SSP, a worldwide leader in instrumentation tube fittings, valves, and tubing, announces a new addition to its line of FloLok® instrumentation valves. The FB Series multipurpose ball valves can be used in a wide range of applications, but are specifically designed for use in demanding applications that many ball valves can’t handle, such as high pressure, high temperature and low differential pressure.

Rotork’s IQT Electric Valve Actuator

Rotork has introduced its new IQT electric valve actuator. It brings the functionality and asset management capabilities of Rotork’s 3rd generation intelligent technology to the direct-drive operation of part-turn valves.

Valve World Americas workshop on materials specificatio

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.

Curtiss-Wright sells downstream oil & gas businesses

Charlotte-based company Curtiss-Wright has sold substantially all of the assets and liabilities of its downstream oil and gas businesses, including the DeltaValve, TapcoEnpro International (TEI) and Groquip business units, to affiliates of Sun Capital Partners Group.