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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.

T.D. Williamson (TDW) announced that the second class of new engineering recruits has been inducted into the company’s Engineering Development Program (EDP). The program offers a broad range of training and development opportunities for new employees hired to work in engineering roles.

Through a U.S. subsidiary and supported by its shareholder IK Investment Partners, Doedijns International has acquired the assets of Houston, Texas-based integrated engineering and manufacturing company Logan International Corp.

With the award of another landmark ruling in the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court of China, Rotork has again successfully defended its internationally recognised trademarks.

Fluor Corporation has announced that Shell has awarded the company a 5-year enterprise framework agreement for engineering and project management services for Shell’s downstream, and potentially, upstream onshore projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EAME).

Golar LNG Ltd has reached agreement for the development of the its first floating liquefied natural gas vessel (FLNGV). The agreement is with Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard and is based on the conversion of existing Moss LNG carriers of which Golar owns three potential candidates.

Designed specifically for sanitary applications such as food processing, pharmaceutical processing, and chemical or plastics applications, the Run-Clean™ Series of rotary airlock valves from ACS Valves are designed with multiple features that reduce material buildup inside the valve housing that can occur during operation.

A first-of-a-kind table application aggregates information for air-operated valve maintenance from various Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) guidance reports in an interactive, user-friendly tool that can be accessed via tablets and other mobile devices.

Japanese company Hitachi has signed an almost GBP 700 million deal giving it rights to build a new generation of power plants in the United Kingdom. Hitachi will buy Horizon Nuclear Power, which was intending to build reactors on existing sites at Wylfa, Anglesey, and Oldbury, near Bristol.

High-performance, composite sealing specialist, Repack-S has announced OSIS, an innovative polyurethane (PU) rubber On-Site Injection System, to join spliced seals in large hydropower valve equipment. The ultra-portable, OSIS system ensures a completely homogeneous, high integrity sealing joint during equipment maintenance, avoiding the loss in mechanical strength experienced with other seal joining techniques.