Featured Story

    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.

    Featured Story – Evonik putting an end to coal-firing

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    Evonik, one of the world leaders in speciality chemicals, is planning to build another combined-cycle gas and steam turbine power plant in Marl/ Essen, Germany. The company hails the initiative as “an important new step in Germany’s energy transition.”

    Featured Story – Increasing profits in the power industry despite the pandemic

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    Both the Coronavirus and wildfires are impacting the market for valves for the power industry. Due to the pandemic, valve industry personnel is not able to communicate in person or attend power and valve exhibitions. Investment in valves by power industry purchasers will be down in 2020 due to postponement of both capital and repair projects. (1)

    Featured Story – Two-way normally open solenoid for nuclear service

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    In the highly specialized world of nuclear fluid control components, three critical requirements stand out: suitability for service, an outstanding dependability and exceptional performance.

    Featured Story – Turkey grows hydroelectric capacity

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    Turkey added over 1 GW of hydroelectric power in 2018, making it the fastest growing producer of hydroelectric power in Europe. Contributing to that growth is the Çetin Dam hydropower plant, located in the southeast of the country. With an installed capacity of 420 MW, the site is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2020.

    Featured Story – Valve selection and maintenance in times of low oil prices: a...

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    In times of low oil prices, oil and gas companies tend to react very quickly by cutting costs on various levels. This is also the case with valves.Valve selection will in many cases be like a balancing act on a high wire where the auxiliary equipment will be the safety net and the safety line. Without them the result may be fatal for the valve.

    Featured Story – India: an opportunity not to be missed

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    With a huge workforce, a business community that uses English throughout and respect for the rule of law, India is ideally poised in the post-COVID-era to be the preferred destination for international companies looking to have goods made for export or indeed seeking a huge export market.

    Featured Story – Flanges and pressure-energized gaskets in HPS

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    Optimised design of flanges and gaskets allow for more efficient and smaller solutions in high-pressure systems. The use of these solutions, CFJ (compact flanges), requires careful analysis of the design criteria that must be evaluated for flanges of various pressure loads and various materials.

    Featured Story – Steam converting valves with unique steam atomization design

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    Ethylene units in refineries and petrochemical plants require reliable and durable steam control valves to regulate steam temperatures for process control. At a leading Chinese engineering company’s ethylene unit, operators replaced failing valves with steam converting valves that feature a unique steam atomization design.

    Featured Story – RPV, “one of the worlds leading” valve stockists, expands its portfolio

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    RPV, the “worldleading valve stockist”, has supported their customers globally with Goodwin International dual plate check valve stock from their facility in Suffolk, UK for over 20 years to date. With over 7,000 comprehensive product lines stocked, RPV recently added to this extensive valve stock with a multi-million order of Goodwin’s nonslam axial flow check valve.

    Featured Story – Vexve’s valves support responsible food production

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    The factory extension of the biggest fish smoking plant in the Nordic countries was completed last year. Vexve’s and Naval’s shut-off and balancing valves are an integral part of the energy-efficient heating and cooling system of food production.
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