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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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New Velan catalogues

Velan has produced two new catalogues.

Fieldbus for hazardous areas

The Pepperl+Fuchs FieldConnex system provides a top to bottom (host to device) range of fieldbus solutions for hazardous and non-hazardous installations.

Small Bore Trunnion Mounted Ball Type DBB valves

Oliver Valves has enhanced their range of double block and bleed (DBB) valves with a 14mm small bore 10,000psi trunnion mounted ball type valve.

Tefzel Coated diaphragm valves

Crane Process Flow Technologies offers a range of Saunders® Flouroplastic lined, A type diaphragm valves with a Tefzel ® coated option.

Omnifit appoints new UK Distributor

Fluid handling specialist Omnifit has appointed Kinesis Limited as its new UK distributor.

Gate or valve position monitoring

The Electro-Sensor SG1000 has been developed to provide fast, accurate feedback of slide gate or valve position to an external device such as a PLC or Slide Gate Display.

New gas mixer for food packaging industry

Witt Gas Techniques (UK) has updated the KM-3MEM gas mixer for the food packaging industry.

Saunders ES modular actuator range

Crane Process Flow Technologies, a Crane Co. company has introduced its new Saunders ES Modular actuator range.

AVT chosen for sand removal package

AVT full port ball valves in 3 inch and 6 inch sizes have been selected by Statoil for use in a sand removal package.

World valve market

The world market for industrial valves will grow from USD 38 billion in 2003 to over USD 44 billion in 2007.