Tag: control valves

Burrow Industries, located in Temperance, Michigan, has introduced the Positive Flow Control valve. It is a cut-off valve for auger filling of fine products for the food and pharmaceutical industries. The Positive Flow Control valve is made of 303 stainless steel and FDA-approved for food.

Badger Meter control valves are often used in applications such as oil extraction in ultra-deep oil wells because they are able to overcome difficult challenges associated with these applications. For example, withstanding extreme pressures, wide flow ranges and ultra-low temperatures.

Bosch Rexroth, a specialist in drive and control technologies, has expanded its GoTo Focused Delivery program again, it was originally launched in 2009. They have added more than 200 products, including valves, and updated the GOTO Products app for all North American customers.

Emerson Electric Co. recently made some modifications to its FlowScanner 6000 valve diagnostic tool using Kalsi Engineering’s Kalsi Valve & Actuator Program (KVAP) software. Emerson’s FlowScanner 6000 is a diagnostic tool used to evaluate the performance of models and makes of air functioning control valves.

Brazil’s Petrobras has begun production on the platform P-61 in Papa Terra field, which is located near the southern perimeter of the Campos Basin (State of Rio de Janeiro), approximately 110 kilometers off the coast of Brazil.

Setpoint Integrated Solutions, an automation solutions provider, will open an interactive, industrial process showroom on April 16, 2015 at its headquarters located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Flowserve Corporation, a provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, has announced that its operation in Brazil has been selected to supply all ball sector control valves, ball valves and butterfly valves for the new Klabin mill (Project Puma) located in the city of Ortigueira, Paraná state, southern Brazil.

Moog Inc. Space and Defense Group provided propulsion control to four NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) satellites that have launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft will study how magnetic fields around Earth connect and disconnect, explosively releasing energy via a process known as magnetic reconnection.

The American Company, GE Oil & Gas, is now using the latest in metal laser sintering hybrid milling machines (metal 3D printers) at its Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, to manufacture GE’s Masoneilan control valve parts with special configurations for use across various applications across the Energy industry.

  KCI announce the recent publication of "A specifier’s guide to control valves" by Edward Singleton.