Projects

Metso has opening a new service center specialized in process valve and field equipment solutions in Gothenburg, Sweden. The investment supports the company's strategy to grow its service capabilities globally.

Shell Scotford officially embarked on their quest to reduce carbon emissions at the Quest Carbon Capture & Storage Start-Up Celebration on Nov.

The City of Bremerton, Washington, recently awarded Pape & Sons Construction, Inc., a $898,919 USD contract for a flow control and seismic valve project. The project originated back in 1995 with the introduction of a seismic vulnerability assessment which “identified a risk that we could basically lose a bridge, lose a water main," said Ned Lever, Bremerton's managing engineer for utilities.

According to a recent report by Transparency Market Research (TMR), a global market intelligence company, providing global business information reports and services, increasing investment in fluid handling technology across oil and gas sector coupled with the growing requirement of industrial process controls across different industry verticals is driving the growth of the control valves market.

One of the partners behind a proposed crude oil pipeline that would pass under Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota, recently agreed to install an additional block valve as a safety measure to ease concerns about how quickly a spill could pollute the lake.

KRG Utility Inc., a leading sewer and water rehabilitation service company servicing North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, recently completed the Northeastern Interception (NEI) Rehabilitation Phase 2 project, in response to a series of Wilmington sanitary sewer overflows leading up to 2007. The project involved more than 5,000 feet of ductile iron pipe bursting.

As the president of Prism Flow Products, supplying valves to Alberta oil and gas pipelines, pumping stations and other energy infrastructure, Terry O’Flynn, who is also chairman of Alberta Enterprise Group (AEG), is hoping the company's current efforts to enhance the communication between Alberta and B.C.

AZZ Inc., with headquarters in Texas, recently announced that it was awarded a contract from the Comision Federal de Electricidad (the Federal Electricity Commission "CFE") to refurbish main steam isolation valves (MSIVs) and reactor recirculation cooling system valves at the Laguna Verde 1 and 2 Nuclear Power Plants near Veracruz, Mexico. Under the terms of the contract, AZZ will provide specialty proprietary technology to execute valve repair services beginning with Laguna Unit 1 during scheduled outages in the fall of 2015 and continuing in the spring of 2016.

The UK arm of a US-owned global filtration manufacturer, Oberlin Filter, has moved to larger premises at Newton Aycliffe Business Park. Oberlin Filter produces automatic pressure filtration units for a number of companies in heavy engineering, medical, aerospace, surface treatment and automotive sectors, among others.

New York state’s Superfund Project has begun, involving the removal of remaining copper and zinc contaminated soil related to the former American Valve Manufacturing (AVM) site on Mansion Street in Coxsackie, New York.