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Record-breaking Caspian Oil & Gas 2001

Records were broken at this year’s Caspian Oil and Gas exhibition and conference: 15,000 visitors attended the show, 10,000 of whom were trade – the highest number in the eight-year history of the show.

BP to expand solar production in Spain

BP today announced that it has agreed in principle to acquire Agere Systems' semiconductor plant in Madrid as a base for a five-fold expansion of its solar photovoltaic cell manufacturing in Spain.

N. American valves and actuator markets to expand

Even as the economic climate remains intensely competitive in the US, the North American markets for industrial valves and actuators will show steady growth.

FCx Pegler & Louden to supply Asian pharmaceutical

FCx Pegler & Louden Ireland has secured the contract – through Jacobs Engineering’s Cork based design office – to supply carbon and stainless steel actuated packages for a pharmaceutical plant Jacobs will design and build in the Asia Pacific region.

Foster Wheeler wins Tunisian refinery contract

Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd has won a front-end engineering and design (FEED), feasibility study and project management contract by Société Anonyme Marocaine de l'Industrie du Raffinage, SAMIR, for the expansion of its Mohammedia Refinery.

L&T launches online valve marketplace

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T), India's largest engineering, construction and cement conglomerate, has launched an exclusive website for Valves Marketing in Chennai.

Tight control with a diaphragm stem seal

Jordan Valve has introduced its Mark 98 valve for better sanitary control.

FCx Thompson wins Chinese valve contract

FCx Thompson Valves (bellows-sealed globe valves, pressure regulators and specialised actuator valves) and Newman Hattersley (high integrity ball, butterfly and bellows-sealed globe valves) have won a multi-million pound orders for reactors 1 and 2 of the Qinshan nuclear power station in China.

Quantum supplier for compressed hydrogen program

Quantum Technologies Inc., is designing and developing a hydrogen storage and handling system for a Department of Energy (DOE) hydrogen bus test platform.

ABB opens office in Pyongyang

ABB has officially opened an office in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), solidifying an agreement signed last November to help improve the performance of the country's electricity transmission network and basic industries.