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    Our editors gather news and press releases from around the world to bring our community the latest developments in the valve and actuation industry. Here you can find news involving the people and companies involved in the design, manufacturing, supply, maintenance and use of industrial valves and actuators. We focus both on engineered products as off the shelf products.
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    TMS eases stagnation in portable water tanks

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    Potable water tanks or reservoirs often depend on a typical common inlet/outlet to maintain drinking water quality.

    Tideflex TF-1 Curved Bill Check Valve

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    Over twenty years of field operation, research, development and engineering enhancements have combined to make the Tideflex TF-1 Check Valve a very reliable check valve.

    Petrobras posts 29% higher net income

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    Petrobras posted a 29% higher net income for the period from January to September 2013 compared with 2012 due to higher operating result and lower impact of the exchange rate on the financial result.

    Vortex improves popular slide gate

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    Vortex’s self-cleaning Clear Action Gate handles powders, granular, or pellets in gravity flow or pneumatic conveying systems.

    Spring-energized seal

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    Saint-Gobain Seals Group presents OmniSeal Raco spring-energized seal for offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) transfer, a market that is rapidly expanding as a worldwide commodity.

    VMA report projects continued employment growth

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    The valve industry employs 50% more people than a decade ago, and it is expecting to add more jobs this year, according to the Employment Snapshot Report presented by the Valve Manufacturers Association (VMA) during a briefing at its 75th Anniversary Annual Meeting.  The Report is based on a survey of VMA member companies, including nearly 100 North American manufacturers of valves, actuators and controls.

    Backflow prevention with Inline CheckMate valve

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    The CheckMate Inline Check Valve prevents backflow and helps odour mitigation. In outfalls, stormwater, CSO and SSO applications, the CheckMate’s custom-engineered, unibody design eliminates costly backflow from oceans, rivers and interceptors.

    ICA Fluor to build VCM plant in Mexico

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    Fluor Corporation’s ICA Fluor industrial engineering-construction joint venture with Empresas ICA signed a contract with Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo (PMV), a joint venture between Mexichem, the Mexican petrochemical company, and Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil and gas company, for the revamp of the vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant located within the Pajaritos petrochemical complex, near Veracruz.

    Proper actuator to valve torque sizing

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    A quarter turn pneumatic actuator, whether direct-acting or spring-return, has a given output torque based upon the air supply pressure provided.

    Networking galore at Offshore Energy 2013

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    By David Sear (Scroll down for video interviews)  Held on 15 and 16 October in Amsterdam, the 2013 Offshore Energy show delivered a strong conference programme plus a broad exhibition covering various energy angles: oil & gas, wind, wave and tidal.
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