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Harriett Baldwin MP opens the SmartAct Factory

The Smart Actuator Company (SmartAct) welcomed Harriett Baldwin MP, Under Secretary of State for Defence Procurement, to officially open their factory at Advantage Business Park in Spring Lane, Malvern, UK.

Clorius Controls introduces optimized valves

Clorius Controls continually optimizes its control valves product portfolio. The G3FM electrically actuated control valve is now provided in smaller nominal sizes DN 65 and DN80.

Energean appoints TechnipFMC as FEED contractor

Energean Oil & Gas has appointed TechnipFMC as the Concept and Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contractor for the Karish and Tanin development programme.

Kinetrol’s rotary vane actuators for valves

Kinetrol’s rotary vane actuators are used to change the position of a valve, converting the motive force of fluid pressure into torque, and applying it to a valve stem.

Smart valve gearbox detects fugitive emissions

A significant percentage of the fugitive emissions generated in a process plant comes from the valves. Plant operators are incurring increasing capital and operating costs in tackling these issues.

ValvTechnologies introduces new website

ValvTechnologies, the manufacturer of zero‐leakage, severe service isolation valve solutions, has launched a new website at www.

AUMA to organize FSCPH

Electric actuator manufacturer AUMA is co-organizing Functional Safety Copenhagen (FSCPH) conference that will take place on 3rd and 4th May 2017 in Helsingør, Denmark.

McDermott gets offshore EPCI contract

McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a substantial contract from Saudi Aramco for EPCI services in the Safaniya and Zuluf fields offshore Saudi Arabia.

ADS Controls is now owned by Dixon

Dixon has announced the acquisition of Automated Design Services, Inc. (ADS Controls) of Covington, Louisiana. The acquisition includes the product brands Outalarm™ (portable level alarms), Spillguard™ (automatic high level shutdown systems) and Batchguard™ (automatic batch control systems) – all of which will continue to be offered.

DeZurik’s new valve selection guide released

DeZURIK’s newly revised valve selection guide for the mining industry is designed to help ease valve selection process. The guide features information on DeZURIK/APCO/Hilton’s complete line of valves for mining applications including slurry, gate, plug, butterfly, check, air, and rotary control valves.