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Tyco wins award

Frost & Sullivan (San Jose, California, USA), the international strategic market consulting company, has conferred its 2002 Market Leadership Award to Tyco Flow Control for its exceptional performance in the European industrial valves and actuators market.

Improved temperature valve

Amot Controls has redesigned and enhanced its G Valve three-way temperature control valve, making it more economical and compact while also reducing unit weight and installation costs, and at the same time upgrading performance with a 70% increase in flow capability.

Foster Wheeler wins Dutch award

Foster Wheeler Italiana SpA has been awarded a contract by Kuwait Petroleum Europoort for the revamp of a vacuum unit and some hydrodesulphurisation units at its refinery at Europoort, near Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Braemar award

Technip-Coflexip has announced that one of its UK entities, Coflexip Stena Offshore Ltd (CSOL), has been awarded the pipelines and subsea infrastructure EPIC contract from Marathon Oil UK Ltd for the Braemar field and the Brae B to Miller gas transfer pipeline developments in the Northern North Sea.

OMB site launched

OMB Valves group announces the opening of its new website, www.ombvalves.com.

Calobri gain PED approval

Calobri has completed within the required timeframe the approval process with TUV and is now able to supply its complete set of valves according the PED.

Valve transplant restores incinerator

A vacuum separator on a municipal incinerator has been restored to better-than-new state following the fitting of a double-flap gate valve from European Gate Valves.

Valves are a good fit for textile dyeing

A British company has found that its efforts to cost-engineer its dyeing machines with the help of Burkert Fluid Control Systems have led to an overwhelming success overseas.

Velan and McJunkin team together

Velan Inc. and McJunkin Corporation, North America's leading distributor of industrial pipe, valves and fittings have established a distribution arrangement for cast carbon, stainless and alloy steel gate, globe and check valves across the United States, with the exception of the Gulf Coast.

Swagelok pioneers e-solutions

Swagelok Company has recently earned independent recognition for pioneering innovative, reliable solutions on the web.