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Victaulic has acquired MTS Valves & Technology's desalination business, which manufactures and designs valves for the desalination market such as the MTS Plug Valve. A high-pressure valve for control in seawater reverse-osmosis applications, the MTS Plug Valve is also used in other high-pressure membrane treatment applications in highly corrosive environments such as offshore oil and gas sulfate removal systems, water processing for mining, industrial water reclamation and reuse facilities and high-purity water treatment for power.

   Emerson Process Management has announced that it will now offer Valve Seat Leak Detection Services which includes solutions for valve-seat leak detection, open inspection, diagnostics, OEM-certified and replacement of its Fisher brand control valves.

 AS-Schneider engineers have been given the task of consistently transferring the tried-and-tested valve technology of the successful ISO FE Series to the OS&Y valve bonnets of the AS-Schneider Process Monoflange.

Bruce A1 reactor sends electricity to the grid for the first time in 15 years following a major refurbishment. Bruce A1 has been off line since 1997, when its then owner Ontario Hydro decided to lay up all four Bruce A units to focus on other reactors in its fleet.

Flowserve Corporation has announced an order for newly developed, custom-engineered, critical service reactor recycle pumps to be used in the new DuPont(TM) IsoTherming® process.

Panda Power Funds said its affiliate Panda Sherman Power LLC has completed the financing on its planned 758-MW natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power plant in Sherman, TX.

Valtorc International, USA manufacturing division has been commissioned to manufacture and provide manufacture and provide The Bechtel Corporation with Valtorc’s high performance automated ball valve series for use on a high security nuclear facility in the eastern United States of America.

Fluor Corporation announced it was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by The Dow Chemical Company for a propylene production asset project in Freeport, Texas.

Nostra Terra, the AIM quoted oil and gas producer, with a growing portfolio of horizontal and vertical drilling projects in the USA, is pleased to announce that drilling has begun on the second development well in the Verde Prospect, located in Colorado. This is the second well in the prospect where the first well reached payout in 9-months.

Evergreen Pacific Partners announced on September 12 that it has purchased a majority stake in PAC Stainless, LTD.