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Atos proportional cartridge valves

Atos 2-way and 3-way proportional cartridge valves are designed for mounting in electro-hydraulic manifold blocks to provide flow and pressure controls according to electronic reference signals.

ES and Crane Valve enter agreement

Engineered Software Inc. (ES), a provider of software used to design and simulate the operation of fluid piping systems, has announced that they have reached a four-year agreement with Crane Valve North America to produce, market, sell and distribute worldwide Crane’s Technical Paper 410 The Flow of Fluids through Valves, Fittings, and Pipe and its accompanying software program Flow of Fluids Premium. ES has been providing Crane with its Flow of Fluids software for the past four years.

Wood Group names new region manager

Wood Group ESP (WGESP), a subsidiary of John Wood Group PLC (Wood Group) has promoted Mr Eddie Stewart to Rocky Mountain region manager.

Safety relief valve

Witt Gas Techniques has enhanced its range of gas safety relief valves by introducing the new SV809 and SV810 models to vent excess gas pressures up to 100bar in storage tanks, receivers, vessels, pipelines and other gas storage systems used in a wide variety of industries.

Brazil: CTMP plant

Andritz and Klabin has signed a Letter of Intent under which Andritz will supply on an EPC basis the complete CTMP (Chemi-Thermo Mechanical Pulping) plant for the new board production line to be installed at the Klabin Monte Alegre mill in Telêmaco Borba, Paraná, Brazil.

Spirax Sarco automating equipment

Ragus Sugars plans to install Spirax Sarco automating equipment throughout its refinery.

LS04 pneumatic solenoid valve range

The new LS04 range of pneumatic solenoid valves from Bosch Rexroth are 10.8mm wide and weigh 30g.

NSSL is on the look out for people

NSSL Ltd (formerly Neco Schubert and Salzer Ltd), manufacturer and exporter of industrial and pipeline valves as per API/BS/DIN Standards (Gate/Globe/Check/Ball valves) in India, is looking for sales representative/agents/distributors & stockists from all over the world.

HTR Series actuator

The latest HTR Series hydraulic rack and pinion rotary actuators from Parker Hannifin are suitable for use in production systems including those used in the mining, off-shore, power generation, automotive, commercial marine and metals processing sectors.

High flow pilot valve range expanded

Asco Joucomatic has expanded its range of high flow pilot valves for critical applications, including Safety instrumented systems, with a new range of 0.25’’ - 0.5’’ Series 327 poppet valves.