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Severe service needle valves

Enhancing their already extensive range of instrument needle valves, Oliver Valves now has a family of power industry and steam plant valves to ASME B31.1 Power Piping Code.

Actuators for UK gas upgrade

Rotork has been awarded phased contracts to install new electric actuators on an approximate total of 300 valves during a modernisation and upgrade programme at the National Grid Transco (NGT) gas terminal at Bacton in Norfolk, UK.

Vegetable oil plant uses fieldbus technology

A Danish food processor has been using PlantWeb digital plant architecture for a new vegetable oil plant in order to benefit from fieldbus technology, fast commissioning and high operator functionality

Protecting oilfield valves

Weld overlay cladding specialist Arc Energy Resources has applied a coating of corrosion-resistant alloy for A. Finkl & Sons, to protect a brand new oilfield valve and refurbish an old one.

Dutch hydrogen power plant

Akzo Nobel and NedStack, producer and developer of fuel cells, are investigating the feasibility of a power plant based on fuel cells.

Alstom wins pollution control orders

Alstom has recently won a series of orders to supply, deliver and install air pollution control systems in various industry applications and countries around the world.

Hydrogen plant from Finland

The Finnish company Fortum Oil and Gas Oy, the operator of Scandinavia’s biggest refinery, has commissioned Uhde GmbH to design and supply equipment for a new hydrogen plant.

Diverting Heathrow’s rivers

Rotork IQ intelligent electric valve actuators are being used in a diversion project associated with the construction of the new Terminal 5 (T5) at London Heathrow Airport.

Sweden: paper machine rebuild

Jaakko Pöyry AB has been commissioned to provide engineering services for the rebuild of Korsnäs AB's PM4 in Gävle, Sweden.

New quarter-turn actuators with counterweights

At the beginning of the year, KSB launched a series of actuators with counter-weights.