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Severn Glocon wins gas plant order

Severn Glocon has won the contract to supply more than 400 valves for two new gas processing plants in the Middle East.

Joint project for lower emission

Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Indiana, USA) and Westport Innovations Inc. (Vancouver, BC, Canada) are to receive funding for a joint natural gas heavy-duty engine project.

Louisiana gasification

TECO Power Services Corporation will develop an integrated gasification combined-cycle power plant for CITGO Petroleum Corporation using Texaco Development Corporation's proprietary gasification technology.

Cleaner gasoline technology

BP has unveiled a breakthrough in gasoline desulphurisation technology that could significantly reduce the cost of producing low-sulphur gasolines to meet current and future environmental legislation.

DSM: two new plants

DSM Elastomers will build two new plants at its site in Geleen, the Netherlands, one EPDM rubber (Keltan®) and the other for melamine.

New from Atwood & Morrill

Atwood & Morrill has announced the availability in the USA of Sarasin-RSBD ASME Section VIII spring and pilot relief valves and Hopkinsons ASME Section I boiler safety valves.

Diaphragm valves from GO

GO Regulator, a division of Circor International, has introduced the DV series of diaphragm valves.

Roche manufacturing project

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is providing engineering, procurement, and construction management services for Roche's manufacturing facility in Boulder, Colorado.

Ontario biopharmaceutics

SNC-Lavalin has been awarded an EPC contract from Hemosol, a Canadian biopharmaceutical company, for the design and construction of a biopharmaceutical facility in Mississauga, Ontario.

Invensys gains PED approval

Invensys Flow Control UK has become the first British valve manufacturer to receive Quality Assurance Module H approval from the British Standards Institute for the design and manufacture of ball valves in accordance with the EC Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC.