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Kinetrol USA’s dampers for oil and gas industry

A damper, also known as a louvre, is a multi-element flow control device generally used to throttle large flows of air at low pressure.

Thermador Groupe acquires Sodeco Valves

Thermador Groupe has purchased 81.76% of the shares in the company Sodeco Valves based in Ternat. Sodeco Valves sells a wide range of valves and accessories to industry for fluid circulation and control.

Richter introduces PFA lined control ball-valve

Richter Chemie-Technik GmbH is introducing a new size control ball for its KNR and KNAR control ball valve series. Increasing production quantities increasingly require larger diameters of pipelines and thus also larger valves.

Emerson extends range of ASCO Sentronic valves

Emerson has extended its range of ASCO Sentronic LP (Low Power) 617 series proportional valves with the addition of 8 and 15mm port sizes (3/8 and ½ inch).

Curtiss-Wright gets USD 49M contract

Curtiss-Wright Corporation has been awarded a contract valued in excess of USD 49M to provide valves for the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class submarines and Ford-class aircraft carriers.

Bürkert UK extends customisation and assembly service

Bürkert offers a wide range of flow control products that can be used to create tailored measurement and control systems.

PureSOx scrubbers on Spliethoff vessels

Spliethoff was early to choose a scrubber for marine SOx compliance. In 2012, the company retrofitted Alfa Laval PureSOx on the M/S Plyca, setting the record for the largest marine scrubber ever installed.

Coperion’s RotorCheck 5.0 for rotary valves

Coperion will be presenting Version 5.0 of its proven RotorCheck contact monitoring system for rotary valves at Powtech 2017.

Union Tech in ExxonMobil AML

Union Tech Co., LLC was added to the latest edition of the ExxonMobil Piping AML and will be listed under category 7.4 (PI 608 / ASME B16.

EZ electric actuators for a steel plant

Bernard Controls has provided a hundred 24 VDC quarter-turn electric actuators, EZ15 models with LOGIC integrated control, to AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke.