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Shanghai chemical project

China's Cabinet, the State Council, has approved the feasibility study of a Sino-foreign chemical complex to be built in Shanghai.

KCI launches new website!

Today KCI Publishing launches a website dedicated to pump professionals, www.pumpengineer.net.

Flow restrictor is a sensitive type

The Sterling Hydraulics J02A2 is a needle-type flow restrictor valve with full 420bar pressure rating providing high flow capacity from a small cavity.

Valves for In Salah

Italian valve specialist FCX Orton, in partnership with British partner HSP, have secured a major order to supply a complete range of valves for the In Salah gas plant in Algeria.

German paper mill

Metso Paper has signed the final contract for pulping system in Zellstoff Stendal GmbH greenfield kraft pulp mill in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, with the main contractor, RWE Industrie-Lösungen GmbH.

US salt waste processing facility

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is planning a salt waste processing facility (SWPF) at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina.

Titanium seminar

The TIG will be holding a one-day seminar entitled "So you want to make it in titanium?" at Austincourt, Birmingham, UK, on 16 October 2002.

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.