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On Thursday July 16th, the second morning of the Valve World Americas Conference, there will be three educational workshops held concurrently from 10:30am to noon. The third workshop will focus on casting specifications and quality for different services.

Wanner International, which has locations across the United States, has now added Hydra-Cell G25 and G35 pumps to its offerings of models available in 316L stainless steel. In order to meet clean-ability requirements these Hydra-Cell pumps have new manifolds with redesigned galleries that allow access for polishing to a certified surface finish.

Industrial Valve Sales & Service Inc. (IVS) is celebrating 40 years of service in the industrial community. It is one of the largest full service valves company in the southeast. In 1975, Don Williams and Jim Harrell recognized an opportunity to repair valves and other equipment in the industrial community.

Administrators at Laredo Community College (LCC) are looking into spending several million dollars to buy real-life equipment used in the industry in an attempt to give a more hands-on education. Oil and gas may have slowed down in the last six months, but the director of the oil and gas program says the industry always needs highly skilled technicians.

The upcoming Valve World Americas Exhibition and Conference 2015 will be held from July 15th to July 16th, 2015 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. There will be three workshops held consecutively from 10:30am to 12:00pm on July 15th.

SGS has been awarded a three-year contract to conduct preventive and corrective maintenance of electrical and mechanical instrumentation at two major petrochemical facilities in Brazil: Terminal Marítimo Almirante Soares Dutra and Terminal de Rio Grande.

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has announced that its Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 1 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania had shut down operations as of April 25th at 12:01am for scheduled refuelling and maintenance.

The global water technology company, Xylem, has announced that today Steven Leung will join the company as Senior Vice President and President, Emerging Markets. His position will become effective April 1, 2015.

Blackmer, a specialist in positive displacement and centrifugal pump, andreciprocating compressor technologies, announced the integration of Ebsray products into its stable of Autogas-equipment solutions for use in the North and South American Autogas/LPG markets.

The Valin Corporation, a provider of process control and automation solutions to a variety of markets, is now the authorized representative of the KOSO Hammel Dahl line of global control valves. Valin has obtained the exclusive distribution rights to the product line in 13 states within the Western United States.