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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.

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.

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.

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.