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Aeon gas valves awarded Gastec QA approval by KIWA

Radius Systems and Aeon International Europe have been awarded Gastec QA approval for their range of Aeon gas resilient seated gate valves, when tested in accordance with the European specification EN13774:2013.

Hyundai Chemical to use Honeywell UOP technology

Hyundai Chemical will use Honeywell UOP technology to expand its petrochemicals complex in Daesan Republic, South Korea, to make its own feedstock material to boost profitability.

The facility will use technology as well as modular equipment from Honeywell UOP to make mixed xylenes, a critical feedstock used by the plant to produce para-xylene, a building block for synthetic fibers, packaging and plastics that is in high demand in Asia.

Clark introduces series XTA-2E molded valves

Clark Solutions, a company which has more than fifty-year history of providing unique solutions to the measurement, control, and monitoring of pressure, flow, force, and level in liquids and gases has recently introduced its Series XTA-2E Modular Molded Manifold Valves.

A.u.K. Muller’s pinch valve plastic housing

A. u. K. Müller has launched the pinch valve series 16.003.525. This new valve with high-performance plastic housing is a lighter alternative to the existing pinch valves with aluminium housings.

Available first is the 2/2 way version with a solenoid coil of 9.

Total and Pertamina sign long-term LNG agreement

Total has signed long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements with state-owned Indonesian company Pertamina for the supply of LNG volumes increasing from 0.4 to 1 MT per year over a period of 15 years beginning 2020.

Warner linear K2x actuator

OEM, a leading agriculture needed a reliable electric actuator for use on their new folding combine augers. Augers can range in size up to 28ft.

Barry Hoeffner, new President of COOPER

newsitemCooper Valves, LLC has recently declared that Barry Hoeffner has joined COOPER Valves, effective January 27, 2016.

Duplomatic Oleodinamica’s high response valves

Efficiency, speed, accuracy, repeatability and programmable control are few benefits of proportional control applied on electro-hydraulic solutions. Duplomatic Oleodinamica has developed the new range of high-response proportional servovalves, operated by a solenoid which achieves high performances without requiring any pilot pressure.

Clough gets hook-up contract for Ichthys Project

Clough has announced that Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. (DSME) has been awarded a contract for the hook-up services on the Ichthys LNG FPSO facility. The Ichthys FPSO is a 336 metre long, permanently moored and weather-vaning vessel designed to hold more than one million barrels of condensate.

BEI launches linear unhoused VCAs

BEI Kimco has recently introduced a family of linear unhoused VCAs with aperture sizes of 15mm, 20mm, and 24.9mm. The through-hole design allows an OEM assembly to pass directly through the middle of the actuator, resulting in reduced weight, fewer parts and a more compact product overall.