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    Our editors gather news and press releases from around the world to bring our community the latest developments in the valve and actuation industry. Here you can find news involving the people and companies involved in the design, manufacturing, supply, maintenance and use of industrial valves and actuators. We focus both on engineered products as off the shelf products.

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    Emerson architecture used in Brazilian plant

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    Emerson Process Management has completed an automation retrofit to six of eight diverse product units within the Elekeiroz Chemicals plant near São Paulo, Brazil.

    Foster Wheeler wins NZ contract

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    Foster Wheeler has announced it has been awarded a USD 90 million contract by the New Zealand Refining Company Ltd. (NZRC) for the Future Fuels clean fuels project.

    Parker represented in Japan

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    Parker Instrumentation has signed a representation agreement for its fluid instrumentation manifolds, valves and tube fitting product lines with Benfield Electric Japan (BEJ).

    CNOOC and Gorgon sign LNG Deal

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    CNOOC Limited has announced it has signed an agreement with the Gorgon Venture Participants that is expected to lead to one of the biggest LNG deals in the industry's history.

    Safe sampling solution

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    The problem of obtaining process samples from reactor vessels without requiring process shutdown has been solved by the PV vessel sampling device from Neotecha.

    Val-Matic produces check valve paper

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    Val-Matic Corporation has developed a white paper examining the characteristics of check valves. It discusses the slamming characteristics of check valves and methods to predict surges resulting from slamming.

    Stainless-steel needle valves

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    Winters Instruments has a new line of stainless steel needle valves to add to its existing accessory product line.

    Low-friction seals

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    James Walker’s new Supagraf® LF low-friction sealing rings are designed to reduce the torque needed for efficient valve operation.

    Kvaerner wins PTA project

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    Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a contract to provide the engineering, procurement and technical advisory support for two new pure terephthalic acid (PTA) plants in the Far East.

    Pinch valves avoid clogging

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    Where powders and granulars are being handled there is the risk that this type of media will choke or block valves, for example in storage hoppers and tanks.
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