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Australian waste project

Clough Engineering has been given the go-ahead on a ASD 30 million contract to design and construct a facility in metropolitan Perth, Australia, to turn household and other waste into marketable compost and recover inorganic materials for recycling.

Manual valve gives precise control

Badger Meter has introduced a new range of Research Control manually operated valves which combine the precision Cv and flow characteristics of automatically actuated valves.

CCI acquires BTG Valves

California-based CCI Control Components Inc. has acquired of Sweden-based BTG Specialty Valves AB, a specialty valve producer for process and power industries.

Rotork actuators in Gatwick Airport upgrade

Rotork intelligent electric valve actuators and two-wire digital control systems are at the centre of a vital modernisation project on the aircraft refuelling infrastructure at London’s Gatwick Airport.

Seminar on CE Marking

The Valve World Seminar on CE Marking – PED will be held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on 25 and 26 September 2001.

Limitorque upgrades Historic Thames Lock

Limitorque has been awarded a contract from the Port of London Authority for the retrofit of electric actuators, as part of the Authority's maintenance and renovation programme.

Metering package for Manjung power station

Anderson Greenwood Instrumentation Products, part of Tyco Valves & Controls, recently supplied a major package of equipment to the Manjung power station in Malaysia.

Tyco merges valve operations

The Flow Control division of Tyco International Ltd will merge its two valve operations together on a global basis.

New valve positioner brings intelligence

Tyco Valves & Controls have introduced a new analogue positioner that enables plant operators to make use of valve status information in process control algorithms.

Double Block and Bleed from Anderson Greenwood

Anderson Greenwood Instrumentation Products has extended its range of compact Double Block and Bleed valves.