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Qatar fertiliser plants modernised

Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO) have recently awarded Uhde GmbH two new contracts.

Strong spring action

Leslie Controls has announced the availability of the Laurence FIRE-CIDE® Valve.

FCX global network

Flow control specialist FCX International has completed its new "portal"-style website providing a simple doorway to contacts, services and products in all of its global flow control network.

Quick customisation for mini valves

Flow control specialist Bio-Chem Valve is now offering manufacturers of scientific and medical equipment a "quick-change customisation" service.

Ammonia plant bids

Chilean explosives company Enaex could call for bids in March 2003 for the construction of a USD 120–130 million ammonia plant at Mejillones in Chile's Region II, Enaex CEO Camilo Sandoval has said.

Valves for compact strip production line

ARCA-Regler GmbH (Tönisvorst, Germany) has delivered to an international engineering company for the steel industry a large quantity of three-way control valves.

Valves for Korean power plant

CCI Switzerland has received from Doosan an order for two turbine ventilator valves for the two supercritical 800 MW turbines of the coal-fired Yong Hung power plant in Korea.

Small Rotork actuators

The Fluid System Division of valve actuation specialist Rotork has introduced a new range of small quarter-turn pneumatic actuators, enabling the proven benefits of Rotork's larger, heavy-duty scotch yoke actuator designs to be applied to the operation of valves as small as 25mm (1 inch).

Beating aggressive slurries

James Walker (UK) has launched its new Aluflon compression packing world-wide, following success with highly aggressive chemical slurries in Australia.

Faeroese oil find

On the Faeroe Islands expectations of having an oil industry in future are growing after a new discovery in the British sector of the sea area. -