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Portugal: wave energy converter

The UK wave energy development firm Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) has announced the signing of an order with a Portuguese consortium to build the initial phase of the world’s first commercial wave-farm to generate renewable electricity from ocean waves.

Rotork actuators for Airbus production plant

Rotork IQ and IQT intelligent electric actuators with Pakscan 2-wire digital control have been installed on a specialised area of the plant that manufactures the world’s largest, most advanced and efficient commercial airliner.

UK Process Valves appoints

UK Process Valves has appointed Martyn Pether as Project Sales Manager.

C60 Series regulating valves

Hydra-Cell Industrial Pumps (USA), known as Wanner Engineering, has introduced C60 Series regulating valves, to bypass the flow when spray guns for example stop delivery.

Split-body ball valves contract

C. Melchers GmbH & Co. (Singapore), together with Werner Böhmer GmbH, have completed the contract of supplying fully welded and split-body ball valves for Power Gas Ltd, Singapore’s Tuas Pipeline Project

Kent Introl valves wins contracts

Kent Introl Valves (UK) has been awarded two contracts for the supply of control valves for oil and gas projects off West Africa and in the UK sector of the North Sea.

Intelligent valve actuation

Camcon Technology, the UK inventor and developer of the Camcon binary actuation technology, has given a presentation on Intelligent Valve Actuation (IVA), a technology critical to the development of the camless engine, at the 100th SAE Congress in Detroit, USA.

New LVDT valve position sensors

Macro Sensors (USA), a manufacturer of LVDT-based linear and rotary sensors, gauging probes, support electronics and related instrumentation, is now a vendor for the new LVDT position sensors used on Westinghouse steam turbines.

Intelligent direct drive actuators

Rotork (UK) IQT intelligent direct drive actuators for quarter-turn valves are now available with failsafe options, enabling valve operation during mains power failure.

South Africa: valves for modular reactor facility

Velan (Canada) has been selected for a supply of valves for the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa.