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Global manufacturer Dover has announced its acquisition of Accelerated Companies, a supplier of artificial lift and fluid handling solutions to oil and gas production markets, for a purchase price of $430 million (€338.6 million), subject to a customary adjustment for working capital.
Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, Accelerated's core offerings include electric submersible pumps…
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At last month's Pump & Turbomachinery Symposia, held in Houston, Texas, Waukesha Bearings featured its new thrust bearing for high-temperature electric submersible pumps (ESPs).
The Hidrax HT tilt pad thrust bearing can sustain unit loads of 8 MPa (1160 psi) at oil bath temperatures up to 300°C.
Technological advances in steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) are increasing ESP operating…
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According to Janhein van der Eijnden, Managing Director of Vopak Germany, there are three main factors influencing the bulk liquid storage sector in the country.
Firstly, the closure of local refineries in Germany has increased demand for imports of gas oil and diesel.
Secondly, the Energie-Wende (the shift in direction from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy) could change…
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Flowrox has launched a brand new knife gate valve specifically designed for demanding and heavy industrial use.
The SKW design includes new features based on direct feedback from the field, including a new load distribution ring that prevents over compression during the installation and ensures 100% sealing between the ring sleeve and the valve gate. To add to ease of maintenance, the load…
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Great Plains Industries (GPI) has launched a new brand of commercial grade fuel transfer pumps and products.
The GPRO brand is a line of heavy-duty, professional grade fuel transfer pumps and products for commercial and professional-grade applications.
'The new line was developed for the special needs and demands of the professionals who themselves demand performance from the products that…
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Graco, a manufacturer of fluid handling equipment, has acquired the stock of Alco Valves Group (Alco), a UK-based manufacturer of high pressure valves used in oil and natural gas and other industrial processes.
Established in 1977, Alco offers a portfolio of brands, including Alco Hi-Tek, Alco Valves, Alco Sub-Tek, and Alco Process. It operates manufacturing facilities in both Manchester and…
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Pump and valve producer KSB Group has supplied an order of valves worth millions of Euros to a new steam power plant currently being built in Barh, in the Indian State of Bihar.
The complete order comprised 6,580 gate valves, globe valves and check valves as well as other types of valves. About one third of these valves are manufactured at the German KSB site of Pegnitz. A large part of the scope…
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A special standard damper has been developed by Gardner Denver Thomas to offer a solution for portable and stationary devices for medical, analytical and other applications that require an extremely low sound and low vibration level of all functional parts.
In the past individual adaptions have been created by customers in cooperation with the component manufacturers.
The zero vibration damper…
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In daily operation, high-performance heavy-duty gears have to continuously withstand huge loads. In case of a machine breakdown caused by overload, the owners are confronted with high costs due to expensive spare parts and costly downtimes.
With the GWS series, Ringfeder Power Transmission has introduced a new range of safety couplings from the GERWAH product segment, custom-built for heavy-duty…
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Cat Pumps has introduced an energy-saving high pressure pump package for centralised hygiene and sanitation cleaning systems.Called 'Wash-Saver', the package utilises a variable frequency drive (VFD) and returns typically 85% mechanical energy efficiency irrespective of operating speed.
The Wash-Saver concept uses a feedback signal to the VFD to control the pump speed. The pump, drive motor,…
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Titan Enterprises has developed and is supplying a high pressure version of its 900 Series turbine flowmeter for measuring refrigerant flow.
Adapted with steel reinforced polymer components, to give a pressure rating of 40 Bar, the low inertia turbines of the 900 Series flowmeter are designed for measuring the low viscosities (0.3 to 0.4 centipoises) encountered with volatile refrigerant fluids…
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Four of the top terminal operators in Germany: Vopak, Simon Storage, Oiltanking and Tanquid will all be coming together on the 19-20 November in Hamburg to discuss the country's bulk liquid storage market.
Germany has the third largest storage capacity in Europe, but with the storage market in backwardation, refineries closing and strong competition, terminals need to work hard to stay profitable…
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Victaulic, a manufacturer of mechanical pipe-joining systems, has introduced the Style DLY Delta-Y assembly, a combination of pre-assembled Victaulic cast grooved fittings, rigid couplings and butterfly valves. The Delta-Y assembly is designed specifically for bulk cement/barite systems on offshore oil platforms and is also ideal for drilling mud and other associated systems.
The Victaulic…
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GP:50 Corporation, an ISO9001 certified global manufacturer of static pressure sensing instrumentation, has introduced a new miniature flush diaphragm pressure transducer series.
The flush diaphragm design of the GP:50 Model 188/288/388 makes it possible to make pressure measurements of high-viscosity fluids, even within high shock and vibration environments, without port plugging and clogging.…
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Alfa Laval, a company specialising in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, has won an order to supply Framo water pumping systems to an oil drilling platform that will be located in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canadian coast. The order, booked in the Marine & Offshore Pumping Systems segment, has a value of approximately SEK 120 million (€13.1 million) and delivery is…
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Pentair Valves & Controls has commissioned a new pressure relief valve testing facility to help meet Asia's growing need for pressure relief systems in critical applications for the power generation, oil and gas, process, and petrochemical industries.
The new steam test facility expands Pentair's current China-based manufacturing, assembly, sales, start-up, maintenance, and repair…
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Following two successful digital issues of Fluid Handling magazine, we are now very excited to present to you the first print edition for September/October. As well as going out to over 20,000 subscribers across the world, the issue will be distributed at the Tank Storage Germany and Valve World Expo events later this year.
Written for the industry, by the industry, Fluid Handling magazine is…
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Flowserve, a provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, has announced it has received a major order to provide multiple pumping systems to Alstom, a France-based global leader in power generation.
The orders, totalling approximately $30 million (€23.6 million), were booked in the second quarter of 2014. The pumping systems will be used for boiler…
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