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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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Isolated diaphragm solenoid valves

Sensortechnics presents a new series of isolated diaphragm solenoid valves, for precision control of aggressive media, from Parker Life Sciences, the Liquid X valves.

FCCU valve order

Curtiss-Wright Corp., through its Flow Control segment, was awarded a contract valued at USD 7 million by Reliance Petroleum Ltd of Mumbai, India, through an agreement with Bechtel Ltd of London, to provide critical service fluidised catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) process valves and valve actuator and control systems for the new Jamnagar Export Refinery Project.

Oman: integrated power solution

ABB is supplying a complete integrated power solution, including process-critical rectifiers, rectifier control systems and current sensors, for the biggest aluminium potline ever built.

Price calculation service for valves

Stainless Valve Co. has developed, together with www.WebcrafterStudio.com, a system which allows you to get instant price information and automatically e-mailed quotations for the more common valve configurations.

Angle seat valves

The new Angle seat valve, from Assured Automation, is a 2/2-way pneumatically actuated piston valve for liquids, gases, steam and some aggressive fluids (vacuum services also).

Thailand: PTA project

Emerson Process Management has been awarded a contract by Indorama to supply control valves to a new Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) project in Thailand.

Algeria: gas facility project

Russian pipeline company Stroitransgaz will bid for the construction of a gas processing facility in Algeria.

Precision fluid transfer valves

Bio-Chem Valve and Omnifit’s new miniature isolation valves are a series of five quick-response valves for handling aggressive and high-purity fluids featuring a range of materials, configurations and performance characteristics.

CCI broadens scope

IMI plc, CCI’s parent company has acquired the Truflo Group, a specialist in valves and related flow control products for an enterprise value of USD 208 million.

High flow pilot valves range expanded

Asco/Joucomatic has announced that it has expanded the scope of its Series 327 3/2-way pilot valves to include 1/4” and 1/2” high flow (Kv 1.5) versions.