Tag: valve

Valve operation specialist Sofis, whose US offices are located in Kentucky and Houston, recently installed a solution to reduce the risk of incorrect valve line-up at Oiltanking Malta.

Safety and the need to avoid an environmental catastrophe led Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, to start repairs in 2016 on a corroded five-mile-long outfall, or pipe, and pump header that release 230 million gallons of treated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean every day.

Losses arising from the fall in production and from the environmental impact make the companies in the field seek projects which are more efficient, particularly with respect to industrial valves, which is a piece of equipment used to manage fluids with the purpose of blocking, guiding or controlling the flow of a certain flowing product in an industrial plant.

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Mass flow meter manufacturer Bronkhurst High-Tech, with multiple distributors across North and South America, has developed a new, directly driven control valve for gas flow control up to 200 bar.

Texas-headquartered Automation Technology Inc (ATI) has introduced an electro-hydraulic control system, adding to its broad range of valve actuators and controls.

Houston, Texas-based ST9 Gas + Oil has unveiled the new XGen Seat + Valve for frac and well service pumps. This is the first release of many products that ST9 will soon launch to challenge the system of timeworn practices and technologies.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is installing a valve and barrier inside an inactive Colorado mine to prevent a surge of toxic wastewater that could contaminate rivers.

Metso, a global manufacturer of industrial valves and systems with operations throughout the Americas, is hosting the ISO/TC 161 meeting on Sept 25th-29th at its Valve Technology Center in Finland's capital city area.

Houston-based companies AIV LP, a global wholesale distributor of valves and actuators, and Gulf Coast Modification, a provider of valve modifications, cleaning, coating, inspection and testing services, plan to consolidate three existing facilities into a new project built on 32 acres in northwest Houston.