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HOBBS SUCCESS CONTINUES

It has long been argued that it is not easy to continually be at the forefront of innovation. It is even more difficult today, with commercial demand hugely outweighing global capacity – who needs to be innovative? This lack of product ...

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Smart Wireless Communication

New Smart Wireless Communication capability in the ROC800-Series enables PlantWeb® to improve predictability of remote oil and gas assets. Emerson Process Management has expanded its Smart Wireless solutions family, with the addition of ...

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Flowserve First Valve Manufacturer To Achieve Testing Laboratory Accreditation

Flowserve Flow Control UK has become the first valve company to achieve formal accreditation to ISO 17025 as a testing laboratory by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The UKAS award, which encompasses Flowserve’s plants in ...

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Tomoe Appoints Distributor in Sweden

Tomoe, a world-leading manufacturer of butterfly valves and actuators, has recently appointed Processteknik GH AB as its distributor in Sweden. Tomoe supplies an extensive range of performance butterfly valves and actuators that combine ...

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The Bestobell Cryogenic Gate Valve

Five years after its launch, the Bestobell cryogenic gate valve is now widely accepted as the first choice of the cryogenic trailer manufacturing industry. Its unique design - offering full bore flow rates with globe valve sealing ...

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A COATING FOR OPTIMUM VALVE PERFORMANCE

Do you have problems with excessive wear, corrosion or galling in your valve applications? Are traditional coating methods not achieving the results you would like? Or are lead times an issue? If so, then Hardide, a new and innovative hard ...

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Leeds Valve at OTC, Houston An overview by Leeds Valve MD Steven Heap.

Unique New Ribbed Disc Design from Tomoe - Improves Flow Rates of 700 series valves More than 67,000 people visited OTC in May 2007. This represented a twenty-five year high and anincrease of thirteen per cent over 2006. OTC expanded for ...

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Unique New Ribbed Disc Design from Tomoe

Tomoe, a world leader in the development of butterfly valves and associated actuation and control systems, has launched its revolutionary new 316SS stainless steel disc, developed for use in the 700 series valves. With its unique ribbed ...

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Rotork’s Golden Celebration

Rotork celebrated fifty years of international valve actuation success with a spectacular birthday party, held in a vast marquee in the grounds of Longleat House, close to the city of Bath where Jeremy Fry first started the company. Over ...

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ITT Corporation to Acquire International Motion Control

Acquisition to enhance ITT’s global motion and flow control capabilities ITT Corporation has announced it has executed an agreement to acquire privately held International Motion Control (IMC) for $395 million. IMC is a global developer of ...

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Flow Group Make waves

makes waves Leading valve manufacturers, the Sheffield-based Flow Group, is making waves with sponsorship of British and European Women’s Surf Kayak Champion, and world number two, Tamsin Green. The Group – a key player on the ...

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Sizing safety valves for supercritical steam boilers

How do you size the safety valve for a supercritical steam boiler? Steam boilers are increasingly being designed to operate under supercritical conditions i.e. pressures above 220 bar and temperatures above 374°C. Sizing equations for ...

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Shafer Reliability ‘Proven’

This Schafer RPC nitrogen gas-over-oil control system was installed approximately twenty-six years ago and has proven so reliable - and has remained undisturbed for so long - that it has become the home to a family of birds! The occupants ...

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Delivering more than just valves

The role of the stockholding distributor has changed significantly over the past three decades and has transformed from being a ‘buffer’ to compensate for manufacturers long lead times in the 1970’s, to a dynamic provider of supply chain ...

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Metso’s revolutionary new control valve

Metso Automation have launched the new Neles® RotaryGlobe control valve, which combines the best features of proven linear and rotary valve technologies in small-bore control valves capable of operating costeffectively up to ASME 1500 ...

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Heaps supply Ball Valves to ASME III + Seismic Qualification

Heap & Partners, in partnership with fellow BVAA members LG Ball Valves, have recently completed a contract for the supply of 80 ball valves certified to ASME III Class 1 and 2. As the valves were destined for installation at two UK-based ...

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Fisher® Certifies ESI

Emerson Process Management has certified ESI Technologies as the approved repairer of Fisher products for workshop-based repairs in Ireland. ESI Technologies has its headquarters in Dunkettle, Co. Cork, and is strategically located to ...

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Big issue – bigger issues!

Welcome to Issue 3 of BVAA’s Valve User magazine, which we believe to be our industry’s fastest growing journal. We are providing our readers with a double publication this issue, as we have included, in the centre section, the latest copy ...

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