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A forecast from the McIlvaine Company states that the industrial valve market will hit $53 billion in 2012. The report predicts that Asia will be the biggest market, at more than $20 billion, where the market is driven by the huge investments in heavy industry and infrastructure.

Rather than using two 2-way automated valves to control the flow of liquids, a single 3-way valve does the job with fewer components and lower cost. Assured Automation’s PTP Series 3-Way Ball Valves can be used for flow diverting or controlling two flows coming into a single line.

The Lee Company's new field proven .281 in diameter pressure relief valves are made with materials specifically chosen for optimal performance in harsh duty applications, such as those in the oil tool industry.

Fugutive emissions can be reduced to less than 10 ppm with Reduced Emissions Kalrez (REK) packing from Research Control Valves. This optional packing system can be installed new, retrofitted, or customized.

Enertech, a business unit of Curtiss Wright flow control, has developed an extended mission gas spring actuator model to support nuclear plant cool down during station black conditions. Conventional electro-hydraulic, gas spring actuators are limited to one direction; fail safe positioning of isolation valves.

Emerson Process Management’s new Fisher® VBL booster incorporates a fixed deadband, internal soft seats and an integral bypass restriction that combine to eliminate the positioner problems typically caused by boosters without these design features.

On September 19th Tyco International Ltd announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved a plan to separate the company into three independent, publicly traded companies. The three companies created through the separation will consist of: the ADT North America residential security business, a North America-based provider of security for homes and small businesses; a provider of flow control products and services; and a commercial fire and security business.

The Valve Basics Seminar & Exhibition is a one-and-a-half-day program that has already drawn more than 400 people who need or want to learn about industrial valves, actuators and controls.

The city of Saltillo, Mexico, is the site of a new waste-to-energy plant that will begin construction in November, 2011. Early in September, a consortium including Eco Energía Renovables, Canromex, Guascor de México, Colibrí Capital, Biogás y Energía, Desarrollo de Proyectos de Energía Renovables, and Desarrollo Ecoambiental de México was awarded the contract for what will initially be a 2MW plant.

Greene’s Energy Group (GEG) has acquired the assets of Houma, LA based Pro-Valve Services, Inc. The acquisition will broaden the after-market production valve services provided by GEG’s Wellhead and Valve division.