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Swiss liquid handling solutions provider Sulzer has signed a frame contract for process and medium consistency pumps to the Horizonte 2 project by Brazil’s Fibria Celulose.
The world’s leading eucalyptus pulp producer Fibria’s new production line will be built in the Três Lagoas Unit in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil and it is scheduled for start-up in late…
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Flowserve Corp., a Texas, US-based provider of flow control products and services, has introduced a new submersible electric motor that utilises permanent magnet technology.
Based on the Pleuger three-phase, AC, squirrel-cage induction motor, the new Pleuger PMM8 features advantages over asynchronous designs, including higher efficiency at full and partial loads, lower thermal losses and a…
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Emerson Process Management has introduced the industry’s first wireless HART pressure gauge.
The Rosemount wireless pressure gauge (WPG) enables remote collection of field data, keeping operators updated on changing field conditions and improving personnel safety by reducing manual operator rounds and field exposure.
Mechanical gauges face quality and reliability issues commonly associated…
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Triangle Fluid Controls, a Canadian manufacturer of industrial PTFE and semi-metallic gasketing products, has launched a premium grade compressed non-asbestos gasket material.
Durlon 8900 has been designed to withstand temperatures of 496°C and pressures of 138 bar, and has been thoroughly tested passing the API 607 6th Edition Fire Test with zero leakage.
“This product is…
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Pipelines
Pipeline technology company STATS Group has introduced a flangeless subsea launcher (FSL) which offers greater flexibility and can be positioned at any given position in depths of up to 2,220m.
Currently, temporary subsea launchers are designed for flanged pipe connections to allow maintenance pigs and isolation plugs to be deployed and recovered for pipeline maintenance or repair operations.
But…
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Valves
Hillenbrand, a US-based manufacturing company, has completed the acquisition of Red Valve Co. for a purchase price of $131.9 million (€120.7m) in cash, including $3.3 million for related real estate.
Based in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, Red Valve is a global valve manufacturer for harsh municipal and industrial wastewater environments.
Its products…
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Emerson Process Management has expanded its integrated operations (iOps) solutions to include workflow software modules from OVS Group.
Integration of Emerson’s technologies and OVS software means users across an oilfield can automate the analysis of their data and reports to capture opportunities more efficiently.
The joint solution works with Emerson’s DeltaV distributed control…
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Valves
Private US equity firm May River Capital has acquired Hunt Valve, a fluid power engineering company specialising in severe duty valves and components.
May River plans to invest in the company to build a platform that will accelerate the company’s profitable growth.
Brad Sterner, Hunt Valve’s new president and CEO, said the company’s history of supplying severe-duty valves to the…
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Flowmeters
UK flowmeter specialist Litre Meter has appointed two new distributors in Southeast Asia to distribute its flow measurement solutions and chemical injection packages.
The new distributors – Wehaya in Selangor, Malaysia, and Lasindo in Jakarta, Indonesia – will deliver Litre Meter devices for the offshore oil and gas industry in Asia and Australasia.
Litre Meter has appointed the two…
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EnerMech Australia has signed a distribution agreement with Parker Hannifin to act as a specialist Parker distributor in the Australian oil and gas sector.
Covering a broad spectrum of technologies, EnerMech will use Parker products for client requirements in hydraulics, pneumatics, filtration, instrumentation, fluid connectors, and seals.
EnerMech will recruit additional staff to support the new…
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Control and instrumentation company RCP, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, has been awarded a contract to supply and install integrated well control equipment for a Singaporean client.
The £300,000 (€386,600) contract will see RCP install and commission the systems on high-specification Chinese new build oil rigs, where they will streamline the well control process by combining multiple…
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Rochdale, UK-based Suprafilt has landed a £2 million (€2.56m) contract for Deephams Sewage Treatment Works in London to supply an aeration system with airmain, header pipework and control valves.
The project is currently at the design stage, with phase one expected to be completed by the end of April.
Phase two should be completed by June with the project due to be finished completely…
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Pumps
US-based liquid handling equipment manufacturer Graco has released a new sealed four-ball lower, compatible with all Graco circulation pumps.
The model has longer maintenance cycles and does not require throat seal liquid (TSL), which reduces maintenance costs and unplanned downtime.
Common components also make the lower simpler to maintain and reduce inventory levels on repair…
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Pumps
Graco, a US-based manufacturer of fluid handling equipment, has updated its hydraulic Dyna-Star product line with the release of the high-pressure hydraulic Dyna-Star grease injection pump.
The new pump is field-proven to be capable of operating at pressures of up to 10,000 psi, even with low flow rates in wireline, slickline, and wire rope applications.
It also reduces freezing, stopping, and…
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Pumps
Colorado, US-based centrifugal sealless magnetic drive pump designer Sundyne’s VapourView pump protection system has been cUL, ATEX, and IECEx approved.
VapourView monitors gas inside the process fluid as it passes through a Sundyne sealless magnetic drive pump.
When the probe detects the presence of gas levels – even as low as 1% per volume – a warning signal is sent to the…
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Pumps
Swiss pump maker Sulzer has received an order for the delivery of an extensive process pump package to Metsä Group’s next generation bio-product mill in Finland.
Construction work at the Metsä Fibre mill, located in the town of Äänekoski in Central Finland, is scheduled to be completed during the third quarter of 2017.
The investment of €1.2 billion put into the…
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Star EnviroTech has won the final US “nitrogen smoke” leak detection patent challenge by Redline Detection in the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
In a precedential 33-page opinion, the Court fully upheld Star's patent, used by every major automaker (OEM).
Previously, STAR prevailed against three other Redline Detection challenges for the ownership of the nitrogen smoke…
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Pumps
Centrifugal pump manufacturer Amarinth has designed a bespoke vertically mounted API 610 OH 1 pump with Plan 13 seal support system.
The pump was created for AI Energy Solutions (AIES), the specialist process engineering division of the Arabian Industries Group, to use with its nutshell filters for cleaning produced water. AIES approached Amarinth, which has delivered pumping solutions for…
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