News

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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Technip to lay the world’s deepest gas pipeline

Technip was awarded an important engineering, procurement and installation contract by Shell Offshore for the development of subsea infrastructure for the Stones field.

Erratum to news on the Bonney Forge Corporation

On page 57 of the July/August edition of Valve World magazine an association was made between the Bonney Forge Corporation and Indian industrial products.

Wood Group GTS expands gas turbine services

Wood Group GTS has expanded its gas turbine service line and now offers maintenance, repair and overhaul for Solar Mars and Siemens SGT 200 (Tornado) dry low emissions and SGT 100 (Typhoon) gas turbines.

Exchangeable modular dispensing valve

Nordson EFD, a Nordson company, introduced the PICO xMOD valve, a new, fully exchangeable and modular concept in non-contact and contact needle dispensing of assembly fluids.

Crane announces title sponsorship

CRANE ChemPharma & Energy and CRANE Nuclear, leading providers of products and solutions for fluid handling applications worldwide, announced Crane’s title sponsorship of the 2013 Valve World Asia Conference and Nuclear Exchange.

Ultrasonic level measurement in harsh environments

Emerson Process Management has expanded the measurement capabilities of the Rosemount 3100 Series of ultrasonic non-contacting level transmitters to harsh environments with the option of plastic (glass-filled nylon) housing.

H-class gas turbines to US power plant

Siemens Energy has received an order for the supply of two power plant units with H-class gas turbines for the Liberty combined cycle power plant in Pennsylvania.

Siemens to supply 116 wind turbines to 267-MW in the US

Siemens Energy has been awarded a major order from Portland General Electric Company, a fully integrated public utility in Oregon, for 116 units of its SWT-2.3-108 wind turbines.

Technip and Sasol form a front-end engineering alliance

Technip and Sasol, the owners of leading gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology, have established an alliance for front-end engineering services for future Sasol GTL projects.

Fact-finding mission to Emerson actuator facility

Take a look at a typical actuator catalogue and it is hard not to be impressed. Wireless communications, modular actuators, safety systems… manufacturers have put in a lot of time and effort to develop and introduce new technologies. Glancing through yet another glossy brochure, however, the Online Team at Valve World did start to wonder about the practicability of these sophisticated new features.