Tag: Texas

Curtiss-Wright Corp recently celebrated the grand opening of its $36 million, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chambers County, TX. At this new facility, the company will manufacture large vessels and other equipment for the refining and petrochemical industries and will produce large valve products for the severe service process industries.

Valve automation specialist Automated Valve & Controls (AVC) has doubled the size of its facility and relocated to Market Street in Houston, Texas.

BP has announced plans to divest two of its US refineries and seek buyers for the Texas City, Texas, and the Carson, California, refineries.

Zwick Armaturen GmBH is pleased to announce the formation of Zwick Valves N. A. LLC.  The company has purchased a 35,000 square foot facility located in Deer Park, Texas, complete with a 10 ton overhead crane, and two 1 ton jib cranes to aid in mounting gear operators and actuators. With an inventory of $6 million in Zwick valves in sizes from 2" to 30", ranging from 150 to 500 pounds, the new facility has the quantity of stainless, NACE trim and butt-weld valves needed to reliably deliver product throughout the Americas.  

Houston-based United Valve is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2011, and the last decade has seen United Valve expand into several new areas of valve service.

Copano Energy, LLC has formed a 50/50 joint venture with a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners to construct, own and operate a 12-inch NGL pipeline in order to facilitate deliveries of mixed NGLs to Formosa Hydrocarbons Co., Inc.

Linde Gas North America and Air Products have formed Hydrochlor, a 50-50 joint venture to supply high-purity anhydrous hydrochloric acid (HCl) to the electronics and other industries.