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  • The Importance of Using Tuned Positioners on All Control Valves

    The Importance of Using Tuned Positioners on All Control Valves

    Readback control of valve position compensates for a host of unknowns in connection with valve response but a positioner, like a controller, must be tuned.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    23 August, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • Metso to supply ball and butterfly valves to polyurethane plant

    The valves will be used in an MDI integration project (diphenymethane disocyanate) and a new PO/AE integration project under construction in China (epoxy propane and acrylic ester).
    By: Metso Automation
    20 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Rotork wins subsea certificate from FMC Technologies

    The three-year Global Qualification Certificate is for the Rotork BGS1 subsea gearbox, a specialised product designed for torque inputs of up to 3500 Nm at operating depths of 3000 metres.
    By: Rotork PLC
    20 August, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Chinese suppliers moving into Pneumatic Components Market

    The global market for pneumatic valves and actuators, estimated to be worth nearly $8 billion in 2012, is undergoing a competitive shakeup as low-cost Chinese suppliers continue to expand into the U.S. and Europe.
    16 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • AS-Schneider moves to bigger valve plant in Singapore

    More than one hundred valves a day will be assembled directly on-site in Singapore in the future.
    16 August, 2013 | 1 minute
  • AMETEK acquires Controls Southeast

    Controls Southeast provides proprietary heating systems for industrial piping, valves and instruments as well as jacketed piping and specialty fabrication products.
    By: Ametek, Ametek
    07 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson named MAC for Louisiana gas-to-liquids complex

    Emerson will be the main automation contractor for Sasol's integrated gas-to-liquids (GTL) and world-scale ethane cracker complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Emerson will supply control and safety systems, control valves, and measurement and analytical instruments
    By: Emerson
    29 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Rotork valves help keep sewage off beaches

    Rotork flow control equipment has been installed at a sewage treatment works serving Somerset’s largest tourist resort on the south west coast of England.
    By: Rotork PLC
    25 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Metso to supply valves for geothermal power plant in Kenya

    The valves will control the steamy process flow coming from the boreholes drilled into the ground.
    By: Metso Automation
    23 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Bestobell Valves signs distributor in Russia

    Bestobell Valves appointed Mir-Expo to further develop business opportunities for cryogenic valves in the Russian market.
    08 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Rotork to supply valve actuators for terminal upgrade

    The Caltex Kurnell upgrade project is converting the existing refinery site into an import terminal for the storage and distribution of petrol, diesel, jet fuel and fuel oil.
    By: Rotork PLC
    08 July, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Emerson controls Gladstone LNG project in Australia

    Emerson supplied DeltaV digital automation system, Electronic Marshalling, Rosemount measurement and analytical instruments, Fisher valves, Bettis actuators, Roxar multiphase meters, ROC remote operations controllers, and AMS Suite maintenance software.
    By: Emerson
    08 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Metso to control paper mills in Thailand

    Metso will supply automation systems, quality control systems, and Neles and Jamesbury valves to two paper mills operated by SCG Paper.
    By: Metso Automation
    02 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Value added services to boost Global pump market

    Value added services, such as condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and advanced diagnostics, are fast gaining acceptance and will account for a significant portion of the pump market.
    26 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Retrofit upgrade replaces Rotork actuators after sixty years

    in 1953, Rotork Model 100A actuators operated valves on the Transonic Wind Tunnel, one of the world’s first large scale supersonic wind tunnels. Now they are being replaced.
    By: Rockwell Automation
    17 June, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Are Users Reaping the Benefits of Partial Stroke Valve Testing?

    Are Users Reaping the Benefits of Partial Stroke Valve Testing?

    Achieving Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 with non-redundant field devices is possible, but not always easy.
    By: Paul Gruhn
    17 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Pump Customers Becoming Less “Centri-frugal”

    Efficient technology design is now the name of the game, and centrifugal pump suppliers now face a flood of new competition says IMS.
    13 June, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Emerson valves to control natural gas in Australia

    Emerson will supply control valves and valve actuators to help ensure the efficient and safe flow of natural gas at the Gorgon Project, one of the world’s largest natural gas projects.
    By: Emerson
    11 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Nordson publishes Fluid Dispensing Product Catalog

    The 112-page catalog details information about markets and applications that use and benefit from dispensing systems, the fluids dispensed and dispensing applications for each industry, and customer comments.
    By: Nordson EFD
    30 May, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Solenoid Solutions publishes Solenoid Valve Catalog

    32-page Solenoid Valve Catalog details five separate series of 2- and 3-way direct acting solenoid valves ranging from the miniature .65 watt Wattmizer to the 17 watt 2-Series solenoid valves.
    29 May, 2013 | 1 minute
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