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Valves
US-based Hayward Flow Control has launched its new chemical feed product line, which includes pressure reducing valves, pressure relief valves, and pump calibration columns.
These new products expand Hayward’s range of thermoplastic fluid handling products and solutions for chemical dosing systems and corrosive environments.
The PBV Series back pressure valves and RPV Series pressure relief…
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Pumps
Wilden, part of PSG and a global air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pump technology provider, has released two new 1½” (38 mm) advanced high pressure bolted metal AODD pump models.
The HS400S and HS430S models utilise a bolted configuration, which ensures total product containment, and feature redesigned liquid paths to reduce internal friction to maximize output and…
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International technology group Andritz has received an order from Hohhot Water Supply to equip two pumping stations in the city of Hohhot in North China with six and five double-flow split-case pumps, respectively.
Start-up of the two pumping stations is scheduled for late 2015 and they will deliver 200,000m3 of water per hour from the Yellow River to the city of Hohhot, the capital of the Inner…
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Other
Ideal Clamp Products has added new sizes to its contractor pack bags line for the Ideal-Tridon brand of worm gear, hose, and specialty clamps.
SAE sizes 36, 48, and 64, are now available in the twenty-five packs, which were designed with the contractor or big jobs in mind.
All Ideal-Tridon stainless steel hose clamps are made in the US and are Uniform Plumber Code (UPC) certified.
The durable…
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Hoses
Ratos subsidiary GS-Hydro, a global non-welded piping solution provider, is to acquire First Hose, a hose and related component provider located in Aberdeen, UK.
The purchase price for First Hose, who services the oil and gas industry in the UK North Sea, consists of an initial payment of approximately £4.5 million (€6.3 million) enterprise value plus a maximum additional purchase…
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Other
Hallite, a global manufacturer of high-performance hydraulic sealing solutions, has introduced the newly designed Hallite 708 bearing.
The redesigned sealing solution features material technology and key design enhancements to meet performance needs for heavy duty industrial applications.
The new Hallite 708 bearing is a fit-for-purpose solution designed for heavy duty cylinder applications.
For…
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Valves
Metso, a Finnish valve solutions provider for pulp and paper industries, has signed a comprehensive framework agreement with Metsä Fibre to supply valve solutions for the world`s first next-generation bioproduct mill.
Metso`s valve solutions will be used in all process phases of the mill, located in Äänekoski, Finland.
The delivery includes more than one thousand valves and…
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Pumps
Curtiss-Wright Corp. (CW) has successfully completed the shipment of the first pair of AP1000 reactor coolant pumps (RCPs) for Sanmen Unit 1 in China, the world's first AP1000 nuclear power plant.
The two RCPs are expected to be on-site in December 2015, in support of key project milestones.
CW also expects to complete production and shipment of the remaining two RCPs for Sanmen…
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Pumps
Amarinth, a UK-based pump manufacturer, has delivered a bespoke 2.8m vertical hydrocarbon condensate pump to a Sonatrach refinery in Algeria.
The delivered pump will act as a direct plug-and-play replacement for an existing unreliable pump.
The replacement pump required rapid delivery due to concerns that the refinery could be shut down if a catastrophic failure of the old pump…
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Other
Honeywell Process Solutions has implemented its Experion PKS R.410 distributed control system (DCS) at Angarsk Petrochemical Company (APC), the largest oil refining and petrochemical complex in the Irkutsk region of Eastern Siberia, Russia.
The DCS will simplify operations and improve the process efficiency of the refinery’s delayed coking unit, which extracts valuable fuels from heavy…
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Pumps
Two Landia chopper pumps have resolved plugging and subsequent costly maintenance issues at one of the largest convention centres in California, US.
A pump and engineering distributor Mitchell Lewis & Staver were called in to the Moscone Center in San Francisco by Koffler Electric to address regular wet well problems.
Effluent from the centre’s bathrooms, combined with food waste, floor…
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Pumps
HealthAid, one of the UK’s premier manufacturers and distributors of nutritionally balanced supplements, has replaced its ageing and increasingly unreliable filling machine with a Flexicon PF6 tabletop aseptic liquid filler from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology (WMFT).
The investment has not only increased machine uptime, but boosted dispensing accuracy, a vital…
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Pumps
When upgrading one of Europe’s largest sewers, which currently serves 3.5 million people, increasing its capacity by 60%, and taking into account a predicted population increase of 10% by 2021, it is understandable why such a system is regarded as a ‘super sewer’.
These are the scale of the upgrades being undertaken by Thames Water at their Beckton and Crossness sites in East…
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Flowmeters
UK Flowtechnik, a supplier of flowmeters, instrumentation, pumps, magnetic couplings, and hydraulic system components, has become the first company in the world to accurately meter extremely viscous adhesive with 55% aluminium filler.
The Nottingham-based company was approached by a manufacturer of glue and resin dispensing machines to see if it could accurately measure the flow rate of Araldite…
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Valves
Power plant valve purchases will remain at a high level in 2016 thanks to continued construction of new coal-fired power plants in Asia, says a recent market study by the McIlvaine Company.
China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Japan are expected to be the driving forces for the valve market in the region.
Despite the fact that Japan was the host of the original greenhouse gas reduction convention, the…
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Pumps
Jump, a French manufacturer of positive displacement, vacuum, and drum pumps, has upgraded its JE Series eccentric disc pump.
The company has so far manufactured its equipment from ductile iron or 316L stainless steel, but it is now expanding its range to cover stainless cast iron fabrication.
Stainless cast iron can be used in sensitive applications for which 316L stainless steel might not be a…
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Other
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) has launched the new RTU2020 process controller for managing remote automation and control applications in oil and gas, mining, and other process industries.
Today’s industrial operations are increasingly challenged with converting ‘Big Data’ from complex automation systems and into relevant, actionable information.
The growth of…
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Pipelines
A new method of pipeline corrosion protection, the Pipevac, has recently been developed by UK-based Abfad.
Unprotected pipelines, be they buried in the ground, submerged underwater, or exposed to the environment, are incredibly susceptible to corrosion.
Corrosion in pipelines is perilous, as it can damage their structural integrity, making them dangerous for transporting potentially hazardous…
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