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Our Featured articles are long reads that require more reading time than our news articles. In this section, you can find our cover stories, compelling content featuring prominent manufacturers, end-user interview with valve experts around the world, in-depth technical articles and interesting project reports from various industries, ranging from oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical to power generation, pharmaceuticals and food and beverage industries.

Development of liquefied H2 valves: Next-generation energy to achieve carbon neutrality

The storage and transportation of liquefied hydrogen presents many potential hazards, such as leakage and external heat input, that place unique demands on valve designs.

CIRCOR International enters definitive agreement

CIRCOR International, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by investment funds managed by KKR.

Asset management of industrial valves – Part 6

What are the important issues for deciding on the end of life of industrial valves and choosing the removal, renovation or replacement approach?

REXA Inc.: recognizing the importance of the actuator

Actuators are not often thought of as a highly critical aspect of a process control system. Rexa shows the importance of the actuator.

Electric actuation with the speed and reliability of pneumatics

Maintaining complex systems in the OEM industry can oftentimes be a challenge, particularly when something goes wrong

Low-CO2 desalination plant for Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi’s Mirfa 2 Reverse Osmosis Seawater Desalination Project will be the UAE’s third largest low-carbon intensive RO plant.

Equinor awards EUR 736 million Hammerfest contract

Equinor has awarded Aibel an EPCI contract for modification work at the Hammerfest LNG facility on behalf of the Snøhvit Unit partners.

Shutdowns: Proper planning is half the work

Shutdowns can be stressful times for all concerned. Colin Zegers has some simple yet powerful words of advice.

Kingdom Flow Control: half a century of honesty and integrity

Over the past half-century, Kingdom Flow Control (KI) has been keen on improving hardware and upgrading its products and service.

Physics to the rescue…improving safety & operation of nuclear and industrial facilities

Vistemboirs, or kinetic energy degraders, eliminate valve vibrations in industrial and nuclear power plants, improving operational safety.