Tag: Canada

The 400 employees from three Montreal factories belonging to the industrial valve maker, Velan, are no longer locked out and are now back at work. On Friday June 5, 2015, the Fédération de l’industrie manufacturière, a CSN-affiliated union, announced that its Montreal members voted 62 per cent in favour of a deal proposed by mediator Louise Létourneau.

Amongst a long list of honorariums to add to his legacy, A.K. Velan, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Velan, has been awarded the 2015 Gold Medal by Engineers Canada.

The Northern Pulp mill located in Abercrombie Point, Nova Scotia is planning a 15-day maintenance shutdown on May 30th, to install a new electrostatic precipitator. But the mill’s general manager, Bruce Chapman, has said it will not restart until the precipitator is operational, which could be in late June or early July.

Fluor Corporation was awarded an engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction (EPFC) contract by Suncor Energy Oil Sands Limited Partnership for a tank farm development project in the Athabasca oil sands region in Alberta, Canada.

Wolseley Canada specializes in the wholesale distribution of plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, waterworks, fire protection, pipes, valves and fittings and industrial products.

The Toronto City Council in Toronto, Ontario, Canada recently voted to ask Enbridge Pipelines Inc. to install automatic shut-off valves and that the National Energy Board (NEB) not grant the pipeline firm Leave to Open.

It has been announced that Endress+Hauser have appointed Summit Valves and Controls as the provincial representative for the distribution of its products in Saskatchewan (SK), Canada. Located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Summit Valves is pleased to add Endress+Hauser products to its existing line of industrial and municipal valves and automation products.

Canada’s capital of Ottawa is proposing long-awaited new standards for rail cars carrying crude oil in a bid to limit a rash of fiery derailments across the country. Transport Canada unveiled a proposal Wednesday that would require tank cars used to haul crude oil and other flammable goods to meet new standards that include thicker steel, thermal protection, full shields at each end and more protection over the valves by 2025 at the latest.

The Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC) is forecasting that Canada’s industrial chemical sector will experience a big increase in capital expenditures in 2015. This also means that there will be a larger demand for commodities like valves.

Transcanada Corporation has filed a 30,000-page application to convert an existing gas pipeline to carry oil from Western Canada to Cornwall, Ontario. It also wants to build a new pipeline to carry the crude eastward through Quebec to Atlantic Canada.