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Scarf joints for better sealing

The new Packing Ring Cutter from James Walker aims to remove the guesswork from producing neatly scarf-cut lengths of compression packing to form rings of precisely the correct size for sealing gland housings of pumps and valves.

Sterling three-way valves

Sterling Hydraulics claims its new N04 series of four-port three-way directional valves are capable of switching high flows of up to 85 litre/min.

Iraqi power: German group wins contract

The German engineering firm Elbe Maschinenbau has been awarded a contract by Iraq's Ministry of Electricity to build three power plants serving the Baghdad area of Iraq.

Actuators for Welsh water plant

Rotork is supplying a water treatment project in an area west of Wrexham, north Wales, UK, aimed at improving the water supply from the Dee Valley Water Plc.

Valves for pulp mill

In Germany in the North of Saxony-Anhalt one of the biggest pulp mills in the world is being build on a former nuclear power plant site.

Oil sands automation award

OPTI Canada Inc. and Nexen Inc., joint venture partners in the Long Lake oil sands extraction project 200 miles north of Edmonton, Alberta, has awarded Emerson Process Management, Austin, Texas, a CAD 35 million contract to serve as general automation contractor for the CAD 3.4 billion oil sands extraction project in Canada.

AUMA: explosion-proof solutions

Explosion-proof multi-turn and part-turn actuators have been manufactured by AUMA for over 20 years.

Valves bound for Russian LNG project

Severn Glocon has been awarded a contract for the world's largest LNG project, being constructed on Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk on the east coast of Russia.

Butterfly valves for diesel engines

Chalwyn has launched a series of new electronically controlled safety shutdown systems for diesel engines.

CB&A receive follow-on award

CB&I has announced the award of a contract for an additional LNG storage tank at the natural gas liquefaction plant and export terminal under construction at Prigorodnoye on Aniva Bay, Sakhalin Island, Russia.