Industrial valve maintenance can reduce downtime, extend equipment life expectancy and reduce long-term operational costs. In some applications, poor valve maintenance can lead to potentially unsafe conditions where high pressure builds up, or hazardous and dangerous fluids are released.

L&L Special Furnace Co. Inc. built and delivered a high uniformity electric box furnace to a valve manufacturer located in the southeastern United States.

Two primary uses for steam in the power and process industries are performing mechanical work and as a heat transfer medium. Superheated steam is preferred for mechanical work because it does not contain entrained water droplets, which can damage rotating equipment.

Dover Precision Components, a provider of performance-critical solutions for rotating and reciprocating machinery, broke ground on a new laboratory. Dubbed the “Innovation Lab, the nearly 12,000 ft² building is being built north of the company’s Pearland operations in Houston, Texas. It is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2020.

M&J Valve Danflo is engineered to track unabated surge-wave pressure transients. The surge-relief valves can be gas loaded or pilot operated. Both types of surge-relief valves actuate in 100 msec and open in 250 msec, thus diverting the required flow quickly enough to keep the pipeline pressure well below the setpoint.

Hengyuan Refining Company Berhad chose the Rotork client-support program (CSP) for the asset management of Rotork valve actuation equipment at its Port Dickson refinery in Malaysia. The CSP encompasses 157 Rotork electric actuators, a Rotork master station and Pakscan control-loop testing facility.

Education is crucial when it comes to selecting the right valve for your hot oil application. You don’t want to waste valuable resources by installing a gland-packed valve when a bellows-sealed valve is really what’s needed. Click here to read about a processing plant that had made safety provisions for its leaking valve a part of its SOP—because no one there knew better.

Conval, a manufacturer of high performance, forged severe-service valves, moved into a new 72,000 ft2 advanced manufacturing center at 96 Phoenix Avenue in Enfield, Connecticut. 

Metso received two orders totaling 8,200 valves from major pulp and paper companies in China. Metso will supply Neles ball valves, globe valves and segment valves, as well as Neldisc butterfly valves for on-off duty and control applications.