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Hours before a natural gas explosion destroyed a popular Kansas City restaurant on February 19th, witnesses reported a strong smell of gas.
April 5, 2013
According to figures released by the Valve Manufacturers Association (VMA) as part of its annual market forecast, the U.S. industrial valve industry is expected to grow by 3% in 2013 with total shipments nearly $4.3 billion.
March 20, 2013
While technological advances, like those developed for the fracing industry, have made possible many processes previously thought near impossible, there is still much work to be done by valve, actuator and control manufacturers and their suppliers to meet the continually changing needs of the power industry.
March 18, 2013
After preliminary approval by the VMA Board in January 2013, the full membership of the Valve Manufacturers Association has overwhelmingly approved a change in the VMA Constitution to expand the associate member category to include distributors and channel partners serving the industrial valve, actuator and control industry.
March 6, 2013
Each year the Valve Manufacturers Association hosts a meeting specifically for member companies’ top executives.
January 22, 2013
Contrary to dire predictions, the end of the Mayan calendar signaled only the end of one cycle and the beginning of another, while the end of 2012 signaled the end of another banner year for the Valve Manufacturers Association and the beginning of an exciting 2013.
January 10, 2013
VMA and VALVE Magazine staffers attended POWER-GEN International at the County Convention Center in Orlando, FL from December 11-13.
December 24, 2012
Valve industry professionals from around the world attended Valve World Expo 2012 in Dusseldorf, Germany from November 27 to 29.
December 11, 2012
Last week the U.S.
November 27, 2012
Total U.S. petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) were down 2.3% from October a year ago but increased 1.3% from this past September to 18.4 million barrels per day.
November 21, 2012
In May 2012, West Coast gasoline prices spiked while oil prices fell.
November 21, 2012
Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase BP’s 451,000 barrel per calendar day (475,000 barrel per stream day) Texas City refinery, three intrastate NGL pipelines originating at the refinery, an allocation of BP’s Colonial Pipeline Company shipper history, four terminals, retail marketing contract assignments for approximately 1,200 branded sites and a 1,040 megawatt cogeneration (cogen) facility.
October 8, 2012
