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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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Flowmeters
AW-Lake, a North American manufacturer and distributor of flowmeter products, has received ATEX and IECEx explosion-proof certifications for its RT-30EX meter-mounted flow transmitter and HUB-41EX flow sensor.
These new certifications are important to engineers designing systems in environments with explosive atmospheres, as they ensure compliance with all standards set forth by the European…
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Other
Pump manufacturer and system integrator Lewa, through its Singaporean subsidiary LEWA-Nikkiso Singapore, has recently fabricated and installed its largest chemical injection module ordered to date on a Brazilian floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit off the coast of Singapore.
With dimensions of 21.3x20x10m and an estimated operating weight of 714 tonnes, the complete module…
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Valves
Flowserve, a global flow control products and services provider, has introduced the Valtek DiamondBack, a technologically advanced anti-cavitation trim design for severe service applications.
DiamondBack enables control valve users to eliminate high-pressure drop cavitation damage and the associated noise.
In addition, the design can be produced in a range of materials, including tungsten…
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Flowmeters
JLC International, a Pennsylvania, US-based engineering company, has received an order for 1,000 Titan 300-010 beverage flowmeters from Freepour Beverage Management, based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Freepour Beverage Management has over the last few years installed several thousands of the flowmeters in their beverage management systems.
The Beverage Turbine Flowmeter Series 300 by Titan…
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Pumps
Westinghouse Electric Company, Curtiss-Wright Corp, and State Nuclear Power Technology Corp (SNPTC) of China have successfully completed the final performance testing and post-test inspections of the lead AP1000 plant reactor coolant pump (RCP).
Throughout the testing, the reactor coolant pump performance met the design requirements which are necessary to support safe and reliable…
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Pumps
Michael Smith Engineers has introduced a new range of Inoxpa Prolac HCP hygienic centrifugal pumps for high hygiene level applications.
The Prolac HCP range of compact, close-coupled centrifugal pumps are designed to provide flow rates up to 220m3/h, maximum differential pressure (heads) up to 140m, and maximum system pressures of 16 bar.
The pumps are available in 316L stainless steel, are EHEDG…
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Apex Auctions, one of the UK’s leading used machinery auctioneers, will be holding an auction of valves, detection and monitoring equipment.
The administrators behind the closure of Coryton Oil Refinery have recently instructed Apex Auctions to auction a range of equipment, which is now surplus to requirement.
Currently available from Coryton Oil Refinery are a large quantity of unused…
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Pumps
The global screw pumps market is projected to grow significantly by 2019, posting a compound annual growth rate of over 7%, a new market study forecasts.
According to the study, conducted by Research and Markets, the growth is triggered by rapid urbanisation and industrialisation around the globe.
Urbanisation has resulted in a rising demand for improved infrastructure and water and wastewater…
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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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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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