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 AUMA was selected as the single source supplier of electric actuators for Qatar Petroleum de-gassing stations. Located at the Dukhan field in the Arab D block, work began in 1998 on a gas recycling initiative to enhance oil production: within two years, AUMA’s field devices for valve control were successfully installed as part of a retrofit and replacement programme.

Oliver Valves, the Knutsford-based manufacturer of oil and gas valves for the global energy industry has scooped the GBP 50-100 million turnover category at the Manchester Evening News Business of the Year Awards. It is the second time the business has been victorious at the awards in just three years, having won in the GBP 25-50 million bracket in 2010. This year has been a year of awards success and recognition, with Oliver Valvetek – one of the three businesses in the Oliver family – winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise and chairman Michael Oliver being awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list.

 AUMA growth in the UK has been supported with the recruitment of Kerry Harris to the new post of Manager for the Southern Region and Head of Internal Sales.

 AUMA has established a global customer base including a lengthy history supplying its valve control devices for Middle East installations.

 Rotork is supplying an all-electric valve actuation package encompassing isolating, regulating and modulating actuators with two-wire digital control for the DanTysk offshore wind farm in the North Sea.

 The Rotork Smart Valve Monitoring (SVM) system has been selected to provide a networked solution for digital valve monitoring and partial stroke testing on a large scale oilfield installation in the Middle East.

 Armaturenfabrik Franz Schneider GmbH + Co. KG from Nordheim was given an award for its outstanding performance for the 8th time in a row by the major American corporate group Emerson.

Rotork is supplying an all-electric valve actuation package encompassing isolating, regulating and modulating actuators with two-wire digital control for the DanTysk offshore wind farm in the North Sea.

The Rotork SVM (Smart Valve Monitoring) system has been selected to provide a networked solution for digital valve monitoring and partial stroke testing on a large scale oilfield installation in the Middle East.

The long-term relationship between Sappi Ngodwana and Metso is strengthened by a new contract for automated valves and services to increase the mill's efficiency.
Metso will deliver all the automated process valves required for Sappi's fiberline expansion in the Ngodwana mill in South Africa. In this project, called Go-Cell, the existing fiberline is being expanded to produce chemical (specialised) cellulose, also known as dissolving pulp. In total, over 700 automated valves will be delivered during the final quarter of 2012, and the mill start-up is scheduled for early 2013.