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Great Plains Industries (GPI) has released its new Flomec 02 scaled pulse meter.
Kevin Symens, GPI’s meter division North American sales manager, says the company is adding the scaled pulse output option to its economy series flowmeter line based in market needs.
The new meter line is compact and lightweight for applications in mobile installations or within confined spaces.
The Flomec…
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Pumps
Australian Pump Industries has announced that Tsurumi’s 1000V submersible dewatering pumps will soon begin trials at mine sites across Australia.
Tsurumi’s Kyoto factory has finished the design, prototyping, and laboratory testing for the pump model, which is now ready for live mine environments.
Australian Pump, Tsurumi’s distributor in Australia, is working with…
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Ampco-Pittsburgh, a liquid processing equipment and centrifugal pump provider, has announced the acquisition of the business and assets of Alloys Unlimited and Processing, a specialty tool, alloy, and carbon steel round bar supplier.
Alloys also provides specialty services including precision saw cutting, CNC machining, rough turning and boring, heat treating, and trepanning.
Alloys is the newly…
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Valves
Motion and control technologies provider Parker Hannifin has released the R9 diaphragm rocker isolation liquid valve family.
Parker says the new range of 9mm valves improves performance of clinical diagnostic, analytical chemistry, and agent detection systems requiring precision fluid control.
Due to their small size, the R9 valves can be mounted over microplates eliminating transfer lines,…
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Honeywell has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Elster Division of Melrose Industries, a gas heating, controls, flowmetering, and advanced technologies provider, for approximately $5.1 billion (€4.5 billion).
The price translates to approximately 12.6 times Elster's estimated 2015 consensus earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization…
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Flowmeters
Jumo, a temperature and pressure measurement technology specialist, has unveiled two new magnetic inductive flowmeters, the Jumo Flowtrans MAG S01 and Jumo Flowtrans MAG H01.
Magnetic inductive flowmetering is one of the most common measurement methods in the world due to its suitability for a wide range of applications, high degree of measuring accuracy, and easy startup.
The Flowtrans MAG S01…
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Valves
Shale-Inland Holdings, a specialty supplier and provider of pipes and valves for energy and industrial sectors, has acquired Major Sourcing, a valve automation distributor.
Major will continue to operate under its trade name, Major Inc., and will be a part of Shale-Inland's valves and automation (V&A) platform.
Dave Kuhn, president of Major, will continue to lead the Major business,…
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Pumps
Xylem, a water technology provider, is playing an important role in the Panama Canal expansion program (PCEP).
Xylem is providing its Godwin dewatering pumps to fill the third set of basin locks on the Pacific Ocean sector, with 1.7 billion gallons of water, as part of performance trials for the system prior to its commissioning.
The PCEP is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2016,…
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Icon Scientific, a physical properties analysis solution provider for midstream and downstream production, has launched a new Viscometer product.
Offering an accurate and repeatable measurement that determines the dynamic and kinematic viscosity of a liquid, Viscometer’s operation enables a range of petroleum products to be measured within the repeatability criteria of ASTM D445, including…
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Pumps
Sustainable productivity solutions provider Atlas Copco has introduced a new range of energy saving vacuum pumps.
With the new GHS 350-900 VSD+ range, Atlas promises average energy savings of 50% compared with conventional oil-sealed and dry vane vacuum pumps, as well low noise levels and good oil retention.
The GHS 350-900 VSD+ range, generating nominal displacement of up to 900m3/h,…
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Stéphane Simonetta, 43, joins the Grundfos Group as new executive vice president and head of operations (COO) starting 1st September, 2015.
Mr. Simonetta brings 18 years of experience in supply chain, lean manufacturing, and operations, primarily in the automotive industry, and has solid professional experience from assignments in Thailand, Mexico, France, Slovakia and China.
For the past…
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Valves
DeZurik, a Minnesota-based valve manufacturer in the industrial and municipal markets, has made available the new KSL slurry knife gate valves.
The KSL-LA slurry knife gate valves are designed for on-off (isolation) service for applications consisting of abrasive, high solids-content wet or dry media and are well-suited for applications in the mining, power, and aggregate industries.
The new…
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Pumps
KNF Neuberger has announced an extension to its line of brushless DC powered NFB boxer pumps with the addition of two new models.
The new NFB 5 and NFB 25 feature low pulsation, gentle transfer of liquids from 5 – 300 mL/min per head, and cost savings thanks to their design and extended product life, KNF says in a release.
The new NFB boxer pumps feature two heads driven by a single motor,…
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Colfax, a manufacturer of gas and fluid handling and fabrication technology products and services, has announced that Matthew L. Trerotola, formerly an executive VP at DuPont, has been named CEO and a director of Colfax, effective July 24, 2015.
Mr. Trerotola succeeds Steven E. Simms, who will assist in the transition and will continue to serve on the Colfax Board.
Mr. Simms notified the Board…
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Valves
Festo, an automation technology supplier, has launched a new proportional valve VPPX with an external sensor input, offering users improved performance and flexibility, and excellent process quality.
The valve is a proportional integral derivative (PID) controller well-suited for industrial control systems found in process, packaging and water and wastewater applications.
The valve…
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Flowmeters
Titan Enterprise's insertion turbine flowmeters combine robust technology with modern materials and design.
The polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) turbine on insertion turbines rotates freely on a 316 stainless steel shaft and has specially aerofoil shaped blades to extend the dynamic range of the meter.
The specially contoured housing further improves the meters linearity particularly at lower fluid…
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Krohne, a measuring instruments provider for processing industries, has announced its new Spectrobay process near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer system for process control in the chemical industry.
In the last 10 years NIR spectroscopy has established itself as a powerful tool in the process analysis technology (PAT) sector, the real time measurement of the composition of the chemical substances…
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Pipelines
Northwest Pipe Company, a manufacturer of engineered welded steel pipe products, has announced it is exploring the sale of its remaining energy tubular products (ETP) business.
Northwest’s ETP business includes line, structural, and standard pipe, and is located in Atchison, Kansas.
The ETP portfolio serves a wide range of markets and its quality-certified pipe and tube products are aimed…
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