Vortex improves popular slide gate
Vortex’s self-cleaning Clear Action Gate handles powders, granular, or pellets in gravity flow or pneumatic conveying systems.
Spring-energized seal
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
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
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
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.