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DuPont Engineering centenary

DuPont Engineering is marking its 100th anniversary.

Valves for floating LPG vessel

FCX Truflo Rona, part of the global flow control group FCX International, is set to play a major role in the construction of the world's first LPG-FPSO vessel.

Velan wins TUV PED approval

Velan has earned PED approval from TUV, a necessity for supplying cast steel valves from Velan's Portugal manufacturing plant for the German market.

Long life for pneumatic pinch valves

Acro Associates' pneumatic pinch valves offer high pinch forces and with their multi-million-cycle life are ideal for filling, dispensing, transfer, and vacuum operations.

Severe service valve

Anderson Greenwood, a Tyco Valves and Controls company, has launched a large bore severe service instrument isolation valve, which has all the benefits of a metal-seated gate valve but is configured as a conical seated plug valve.

Safety valve produces savings

The Crosby BlockBodyTM Safety Relief Valve has been specifically designed to meet high-pressure safety relief requirements using only one valve, rather than a series of valves, in applications involving very high set and back pressures, outside the range covered by industry standards such as API-RP-526.

Large-bore pipeline valves

Oliver Twinsafe Valves' new range of Double Block and Bleed (DBB) large-bore pipeline valves offer a range of valves from 1" ANSI class 150 to 12" class 2500 with various face-to-face dimensions.

New valve for diesel engine

A new kind of diesel engine has been developed, promising some of the most far-reaching efficiency gains since the diesel engine was invented over a century ago.

Solving dispensing problems

Digitrol of Swansea has specified shut off valves and manifolds from Burkert Fluid Control Systems for a new range of cleaning chemical dispensing machines it is re-engineering for one of its customers.

Stainless valves and fittings

NeRo (Oldbury, UK) has published a 130-page catalogue showing a wide range of stainless steel valves, tubes, pipes and fittings.