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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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DuPont forms alliance with Honeywell

Chemical giant DuPont has formed an alliance with automation specialist Honeywell.

Foxboro/Invensys wins automation contract in Louis

BVZ Power Partners-Riverside (San Antonio, Texas) has awarded Foxboro, a unit of Invensys Process Systems, with a major automation contract for the RS Cogen, LLC Riverside co-generation plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA.

Solenoid actuated globe valves

Leslie Controls has introduced the Laurence solenoid actuated globe valves, designed for the most demanding process applications, with high temperatures and pressure capabilities.

New clean-water valve

Red Valve has introduced a valve designed primarily for clean-water applications.

New Sales & Marketing Director for Rotork Valvekit

Howard Mutters has been appointed Sales and Marketing Director at Rotork Valvekits, the specialist one-stop supplier of accessories for the valve and actuation manufacturing and distribution industries.

Tandem ball valves embraced by oil & gas industrie

Offshore oil and gas industries have begun placing orders for the new Tandem Ball Valve launched by Ball Valves (UK) Ltd, at Offshore Europe 1999.

BigMachines for Valves

BigMachines Inc., a definitive provider of eBusiness for Engineered Systems software enabling companies to configure and sell complex products online, has announced the availability of BigMachines for Valves, an industry-specific framework for tailoring the BigMachines software suite for the USD 11 billion valve and actuator industries.

New tool extracts ball valves in seconds

Engineers at Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC) have developed an easy, quick method for unseating and removing a ball valve from a process line.

Cowdenbeath Test Laboratory

Score Europe Limited's Valve Research and Test Centre at Cowdenbeath, Scotland, has been officially assessed and approved by Lloyds Register in accordance with the requirements of EN45001 (general criteria for the operation of testing laboratories), EN45002 (general criteria for the assessment of testing laboratories) to undertake fire type testing and cryogenic testing in accordance with the appropriate certification.

SIPOS Aktorik GmbH exhibits at Interkama 2001

SIPOS Aktorik GmbH will be exhibiting its enhanced SIPOS 5 Flash series of electric actuators and its new control system SIMA for PROFIBUS DP compatible actuators at the Interkama 2001 exhibition in Düsseldorf, 24–28 September 2001.