Technical

The Dixon Group have recently opened their valve actuation shop at its Preston headquarters which offers custom automated valve packages. Most packages can be despatched within 24 hours, which hopes to reduce the process downtime for the company’s clients.

 Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, has released its latest firmware for the Compax3; version R09-40.  The Compax3 servo drive family now offers the fully digital Endat 2.2 feedback.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL) have expressed reservations about findings in recent third-party studies that the federal government will consider in potential new mandates for leak detection systems and shutoff valves for pipelines. The Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 required PHMSA to provide Congress with reports on pipeline leak detection systems and automatic and remotely controlled valves.

Tyco Valves & Controls, the leading global manufacturer of valves, actuators and controls has announced that it is has changed its name to Pentair Valves & Controls.

ABTCP, the Brazilian Pulp and Paper Technical Association, has awarded Metso the title of the best automation company in Brazil for 2012, following a vote of the association members, who include Metso's customers.

Foster Wheeler AG has announced that Global Power Group has been awarded a contract for the design and supply of two heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) to be installed in a cogeneration power plant for the TEREFTALATOS MEXICANOS S.

A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler's Global Engineering and Construction Group in consortium with Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. of South Korea, has been awarded a contract for Phase 1 (Hydroskimming section) of the new Batalla Santa Ines Refinery, by Petróleos de Venezuela, S.

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.

GE Energy Management’s Power Conversion business has announced it will supply Swire Pacific Offshore Operations Limited with integrated power generation, propulsion, dynamic positioning and automation systems for eight new offshore platform supply vessels (PSVs). Four of the PSVs are being built by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in Japan and the remaining four by Estaleiro Ilha S.A.

Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Petrobras for a world-scale grassroots gas-to-chemicals complex in Linhares, Espirito Santo State, southeast Brazil.