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Our editors gather news and press releases from around the world to bring our community the latest developments in the valve and actuation industry. Here you can find news involving the people and companies involved in the design, manufacturing, supply, maintenance and use of industrial valves and actuators. We focus both on engineered products as off the shelf products.

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Humphrey super quick exhaust valves

Humphrey Products Co.'s new super quick exhaust valves feature a special molded shuttle designed specifically for quick service.

SMC Coolant valve

SMC Corp. of America has announced the release of its new Series SGC coolant valve with a service life of 5 million cycles or more, for use in machine tool and auto industries.

Angled bodied valve

The new ASAST series of 316 stainless steel valves from Alcon is designed for water, steam and corrosive fluid applications.

China: MTG pilot plant

Uhde has been awarded a contract by the Chinese company Shanxi Jincheng Anthracite Coal Mining Co. Ltd for the engineering and supply of a methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) plant.

Pump testing facility

CDR Pumps has recently commissioned a new EUR 350,000 pump testing facility at its European manufacturing headquarters in Milan, Italy.

Fieldbus whitepaper

The new “Introduction to Fieldbus” white paper, from Moore Industries International, explains, in terms any engineer, technician or operator can understand, how fieldbus works.

New redesigned Oliver Group website

The Oliver Group, comprising Oliver Valves, Oliver Valvetek and Oliver Twinsafe are has announced the launch of their new redesigned website - www.valves.co.uk.

DD Library

The Fieldbus Foundation has announced the release of Device Description (DD) Library Version 3.1, a standardized source code resource designed to make it easier for developers to build Device Descriptions (DDs) for new Foundation-based instrumentation.

SS forging billet increase

Sandvik Materials Technology in the UK is significantly increasing its supply capability for stainless steel forging billets.

Econosto valves for a historic ship

HMS Clyde, the first complete ship to be built in Portsmouth’s Naval Base for nearly 40 years, has been constructed using around GBP 200,000 worth of valves supplied by Leicester-based valve specialist Econosto UK Ltd.