Archive for the ‘valves’ Category
Engineers considering developing CC-Link Open Network enabled versions of their own products can now use starter kits developed by the CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA), designed to make the process simple. Open networks allow field devices made by many different manufacturers to communicate freely within an automation network.
Submersible chopper pumps from Landia are successfully handling a tough, heavy ragging process at a sewage treatment works (STW) that takes in wastewater from numerous sites in the North West. The STW sees LandiaÂ’s 2.25kW units utilised to pump wastewater that is particularly laden with coarse, solid particles
Reduced running costs and easier servicing are claimed for a new, high pressure water jet cutting system to be launched in Europe by KMT at MACH 2012. Manufactured in the USA, the Streamline PRO2 received its world premiere at the IMTS show in Chicago last September. Replacing the PRO1 and identically priced, the new model has the same industry-leading specification based on a hydraulic intensifier pump rated at either 45 or 93 kW.
LISLE, Ill. — Navistar International revealed during its analyst day that it has halted deliveries of all new trucks due to a faulty valve in Bendix braking systems
Dedicated to taking an active role in reducing its carbon emissions as well as saving costs, MTW Linen Services, a subsidiary of Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS, has reduced its CO2 emissions by 12.5% following the installation of Thermal Energy International’s GEM venturi orifice steam traps.
With 260 billion barrels of oil, Saudi Arabia has more than double the proven reserves of Iran, its nearest competitor within OPEC. In an interview in Dhahran, in the Kingdom’s Eastern Provence, the veteran energy minister Ali Al Naimi said the country is ready step back in as the swing oil producer if sanctions undermine Iran’s exports of 2.2 million barrels a day.
Lindal Group has just completed an expansion of its Columbus aerosol valve production operation, the company announced Jan. 4
Metso has received an important automation order for Stora Enso Narew Sp.zo.o new containerboard production line at Ostroleka in Poland.
Two silicon microvalves have been built at the Institute of Electron Technology: a check valve, which does not require any control, and a through-flow valve, electronically controlled by means of a piezoelectric stack.
Suitable for use up to 120°C (and down to -10°C), the 2652 and 2655 ball valves are equipped with stainless steel PTFE seals for use with gaseous and liquid media. They are supplied with quarter-turn pneumatic rotary actuators, which have optical position indicators, mechanical feedback and pilot-valve connections for NAMUR pilot valves, or Burkert side-control positioners.