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New leak detection valve actuators

Rotork IQ intelligent electric valve actuators are performing crucial leak detection and isolation duties on a new automated jet fuel storage and refuelling installation (JFSI) at a strategic NATO airbase.

Tomoe valves at new glass plant

Tomoe Valve has recently secured a contract to supply all the mechanical service butterfly valves on the furnace and filling hall pipeline links at the new Quinn Glass manufacturing plant near Warrington, UK.

No-maintenance valve

A new flat spring solenoid valve from Asco Joucomatic offers an operating life of 1 billion cycles when used with neutral gases.

New high-flow balanced Poppet valve

Asco Joucomatic’s introduces its new, TUV certified 327 series of Poppet valves.

Chile: delayed coker complex

Foster Wheeler Ltd has announced that its Madrid-based subsidiary Foster Wheeler Iberia, SA has been awarded a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new delayed coker complex at Empresa Nacional de Petroleo’s (ENAP) Aconcagua refinery at Concon, Chile.

Hoke HQC quick couplers

New Hoke HQC quick couplers from Circor Instrumentation include multiple backup O-rings for leak-tight sealing in pressurised or vacuum systems and positive valve stops to prevent flow checking in the body.

Nigeria: Agbami development

Star Deep Water Petroleum Ltd (an affiliate of Chevron Corp.) has awarded Technip an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract of USD 800 million, for the Agbami field development, located offshore Nigeria in about 1,550m water depth.

Process pneumatic valve actuators

Festo has chosen IWEX 2005 as the UK launch venue for a comprehensive range of pneumatic valve actuators and associated components for the process industry.

SS float valve

Keraflo (UK) has now offers its Aylesbury float valve in stainless steel.

6th edition actuators catalogue

Two new publications from Geeplus Europe provide designers with almost 150 pages of electromechanical motion control solutions.