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Our editors gather news and press releases from around the world to bring our community the latest developments in the valve and actuation industry. Here you can find news involving the people and companies involved in the design, manufacturing, supply, maintenance and use of industrial valves and actuators. We focus both on engineered products as off the shelf products.

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Intelligent choice for E. European pipelines

Rotork has won the contracts to supply hundreds of intelligent electric valve actuators for new oil pipeline and distribution network modernisation projects in Eastern European countries.

Stainless vacuum valve catalogue

International Valve Marketing presents catalogues on its Vent-O-Mat air release vacuum break valves, made of stainless steel.

FCx Truflo in Korean exhibition

FCx Truflo Marine is to exhibit a range of flow-control solutions for marine applications at this year's Naval & Defence Exhibition in Busan, Korea, from the end of October.

Valve contract for Chinese PTA plant

FCx Truflo Rona and FCx Orton - both part of the FCX International group of specialist flow control companies – have secured a major contract to supply manual and actuated process valves to one of the world's largest Pure Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plants.

Honeywell boosts fibre manufacturing

The Specialty Materials business of Honeywell is expanding production of its Spectra(R) high modulus polyethylene fiber (HMPE).

Technip creates engineering company in Kazakhstan

Technip and Transport of Oil and Gas (TOG), the National Oil and Gas Transportation Company of Kazakhstan, have created a joint engineering and construction company headquartered in Almaty.

Auma strikes a blow for the environment

Auma Actuators were selected by Cardiff Harbour Authorities’ designer JacobsGIBB Ltd as a supplier of fish pass operating equipment for Cardiff Barrage.

Customised potentiometer for actuator

When Heap & Partners designed a new valve actuator they specified a customised potentiometer from Variohm.

Stainless steel encapsulation upgrade

The standard Forac Actuated Valve Assembly consists of a pneumatic actuator enclosed in a stainless steel dome with a base of polypropelene mounted to any of the 90-degree operating valves such as ball, butterfly or plug.

Leslie introduces Aeroflow with T2 trim

Leslie Controls' Aeroflow T2 "High Gain" trim offers tighter process control and significant savings over conventional control valves.