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FCX Pegler & Louden to distribute for Crane

FCX Pegler & Louden has been appointed by Crane Process Flow Technologies and its sister company Crane Fluid Systems to market and sell both its Flowseal range of butterfly valves and its “vanilla” range of cast steel gate, globe and check valves.

Avestapolarit valve upgrade

AvestaPolarit has upgraded the gas control system on its Argon Oxygen Decarburisation (AOD) converter at its steel mill on Shepcote Lane in Sheffield.

Stuffing box gasket

The company ARCA Regler GmbH (Tönisvorst, Germany) has been granted a patent for a method of tightening a stuffing box gasket for control valves.

IOC to invest in naphtha cracker

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is planning to invest Rs 7000 crore in setting up a naphtha cracker complex by 2006–7.

New co-ax valve

Springer co-ax inc. has introduced an entry-level version of its coaxial straight-through valve with integral actuator.

Modular valve manifolds use compact units

Automation specialist Festo has extended its range of high-performance miniaturised products with the introduction of new "Smart Cubic" modular valve manifolds (CPA-SC).

Position indicator systems

Oliver Valvetek, world leaders in Subsea Valve Technology, are seeing an increase in demand for remote mounted multi-turn valves and equipment with panel mounted ROV receptacles and position indicator systems.

Rotork wins praise from Corus

Rotork's performance throughout a valve actuation retrofit project on the Gas Booster Station at the giant Corus Scunthorpe Steel Works has been praised by the project manager.

PPE seal production facility

UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw recently opened the new GBP 2 million Precision Polymer Engineering Ltd (PPE) factory in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Modular valve manifolds save assembly space

Smart Cubic modular valve manifolds (CPA-SC) are aimed primarily at semiconductor, electrical and light mechanical assembly applications.