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Metso valves to desalination plants

seawater desalination plantMetso Automation will deliver valves to a seawater desalination plant to be constructed by thermal desalination specialist company SIDEM (Société Internationale de Dessalement).

SASPG International Ltd is launched

A new company, SASPG International Ltd, has been launched as a joint venture between the Sichuan Air Separation Plant Group (SASPG) in China and Severn Flowtech in the UK.

Actuators for FGD plant

Rotork intelligent electric valve actuators have been specified for the new flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) plant at the Ferrybridge ‘C’ Power Station in West Yorkshire, UK.

France: combined-cycle power plant

Siemens Power Generation (PG) is to construct a turnkey combined-cycle power plant in Saint Avold in the Lorraine region, France.

Process and Industrial Valves 2007

UK-based supplier of compressed air and fluid processing systems, Thorite, has produced two new process product catalogues, each designed to make the selection of components from a variety of top quality manufacturers fast and straight forward.

Oxygen clean series electonic valves

Clippard Instrument Laboratory Inc. has introduced its all-new Oxygen clean series electronic valves.

Valves for LNG carrier

Poyam Valves has been awarded a contract to supply valves for world’s first Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) for LNG.

New Samson positioner package

Samson Controls has introduced a new positioner package which facilitates exact positioning with fast response times over the entire operating range, including large control valves, which can be problematic.

Turkish Black Sea gas project

AMEC, the international project management and services company, has announced that Houston-based subsidiary AMEC Paragon has been selected by the Turkish national oil company, Turkiye Petrolleri A.O. (TPAO), to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) for a natural gas drilling and wellhead platform in the Western Black Sea near Akçakoca, Turkey.

M79P Pneumatic actuator

Asahi America Inc. has expanded their pneumatic actuator product line by adding the M79P to their family of pneumatic actuators.