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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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Witt’s smart safety valve

A safety valve for gases with integrated sensor technology and communication interface - this innovation from Witt is now available.

Polygon develops composite tubes & bearings

Polygon Company, a producer of composite tubing, bearings, and pneumatic cylinders, announces that it has developed composite tubes and bearings that meet the high-pressure conditions and toughest design challenges in the oil and gas industry.

GEMÜ ball valves for industrial applications

GEMÜ is expanding and changing its product range of industrial ball valves. General applications are covered by focussing on selected designs.

Voith shows robust development

In the 2020 financial year (ending September 30, 2020) the Voith Group performed reasonably well given the significant adverse impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic across all segments and markets in the second half of the year.

Oxford Flow ES axial flow valve achieves breakthrough

Oxford Flow has announced that its ES axial flow isolation valve for the oil, gas, and petrochemical sectors has excelled in fugitive emissions testing – offering a viable option to eliminate fugitive emissions from valves in critical processes.

Kongsberg cements leading position in energy transition

The status of Kongsberg Digital as the forerunner of digital transformation within the oil and gas sector has been recognised with three awards at the 2020 Digital Oil & Gas Asia Summit (DOA 2020) held in Beijing, China.

PDC LLC announces the launch of electric actuators

Process Development & Control, LLC (PDC), a Pittsburgh based valve and actuator manufacturer, announced the launch of its comprehensive line of Electric Actuators to be marketed under their Magnus Force brand.

Weir Oil & Gas release latch back pressure valve system

Weir Oil & Gas, an upstream provider of systematized pressure pumping and pressure control equipment and services, announced the availability of the new Weir® Latch Back Pressure Valve (LBPV) Drill-Thru System.

MACOGA supplies high-pressure expansion joints

The Tâmega Hydroelectric Complex represents the largest hydropower project in the history of Portugal and is one of the European energy sector’s most important initiatives of the last 25 years.

Inflow preventers protecting potable water

Val-Matic’s white paper Protecting Drinking Water Pipelines with Inflow Prevention explains this in more detail. With the heightened demand for security and safe drinking water, inflow prevention is important because air valves and reservoir vents are vulnerable to flood contamination as well as malicious tampering.