Tag: chemicals

KMG Chemicals, Inc., a global provider of specialty chemicals, has acquired the privately held Valves Incorporated of Texas (Val-Tex), a manufacturer of industrial valve lubricants and sealants. Located in Houston, Texas, Val-Tex is a preferred provider of high quality, cost-effective valve lubricants primarily to the oil and gas storage, pipeline and gas distribution markets.

Last Friday, Sasol broke ground on its ethane cracker and derivatives mega project near Westlake, Lousisana. The new facility that will roughly triple Sasol’s chemical production capacity in the United States.

LyondellBasell plans to expand Tri-ethylene Glycol (TEG) production capacity at the company's existing ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol plant in Pasadena, Texas. The additional capacity of 50 million pounds per year would more than double the company's current production capacity.

The federal government’s Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, has released the final standards for hydraulic fracturing on both public and American Indian lands. The new and thorough rules update requirements for well-bore integrity, wastewater disposal and public disclosure of chemicals.

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.

The manufacturer of high quality chemical feed equipment for pumps and systems, Griffco Valve, has earned certification for CE under the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) 97/23/EC Category IV, Modules B and D, for its design and manufacture of back pressure valves and pressure relief/safety valves.

Designed for quarter-turn, rotary or linear operation, robust Rotork CMA actuators perform numerous process control valve, metering pump and damper applications demanding precise position control and continuous modulation.

According to a new market research report, the control valve market is expected to reach US$10.82 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 6.85 percent between 2014 and 2020. The new report titled, Control Valve Market by Motion (Rotary, Linear), by Component (Valve Body, Actuator, and Others), by Application (Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Energy & Power, Water Management, Pharmaceuticals, Food & Beverages, and Others), & by Geography - Global Forecast to 2020, explains that the need for control valves is also expected to grow proportionately to be able to support this growth.

Clark Solutions has launched the MTV-R/MTV-K Series Inert Isolation Valves specifically designed to avoid valve seal damage, which is often caused by aggressive media or particulates in the media stream.

Pradip Khaladkar, PE at DuPont, received the Materials Technology Institute’s (MTI) Fellow award and designation at MTI's summer AmeriTAC 114 meeting in Denver, Colorado. It is the organization's top honor for distinguished service.