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A report from the VMA Market Outlook Workshop, held in August 2012: John Spears of Spears & Associates works with domestic and international petroleum industry equipment and service firms, financial institutions and government entities, making him uniquely qualified to track market size and share for over 30 segments of the petroleum industry.
August 28, 2012
Conval now offers an easy to retrofit, single-weld, OSHA-compliant safe vent drain for its Clampseal Y-pattern forged globe valves.
August 20, 2012
Manual gear operators continue to provide a viable, age-old solution with a few 21st century twists.
August 20, 2012
When control valve professionals talk about "control valve sizing," they really mean the entire process of selecting the valve that will do the best job of controlling the process.
August 16, 2012
A motor-operated valve (MOV) stem nut typically is made of a bronze alloy material.
August 10, 2012
Since valves are the number one source of leakage, those faced with reducing fugitive emissions need to look at the most challenging type: control valves.
August 6, 2012
To coincide with the release of the latest edition of the North American Catalog of Valves—first published in 1984—we spoke with several U.S. and Canadian companies about how globalization has changed the way they do business.
July 30, 2012
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the construction of four new nuclear reactors in the U.S., the first since 1978.
July 28, 2012
Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE) has launched Perlast ICE G75LT, a low temperature perfluoroelastomer material for use in oil and gas applications.
July 23, 2012
As the nation increasingly seeks sources for renewable energy, dams and the thousands of valves they contain will only become more important.
July 16, 2012
With an estimated 60% of fugitive emissions attributed to valves it is easy to see EPA’s attention is on valve emissions reduction.
July 13, 2012
The use of solar power in industrial and municipal valve actuator applications goes back several decades; however, technological advances in solar power efficiency and storage mean that today, it has become a practical, dependable alternative for many isolated locations.
July 2, 2012
