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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.

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.

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.

AWWA C515 Gate valves

Danfoss Flomatic Corp. has introduced their new AWWA C515 Gate valves.

Process solution specialist appointed

Parker Instrumentation has appointed Aberdeen Fluid System Technologies as a process specialist in Scotland, to configure and provide application-specific solutions for connecting to process lines.

E290 valves

The new E290 range of valves from Asco Joucomatic have a bronze or stainless steel body, various pilot options, high viscosity and 32-125mm operators.