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- February.2021
Global Industrial valves industry feels mixed market trend
While the industrial valves sector was still able to hold its own in the first half of 2020 despite the corona crisis, declining demand is currently making itself felt more strongly at home and abroad. Foreign business, in particular, is declining. Foreign sales fell by 5% from January to September 2020. By contrast, sales in Germany rose by 10% at the same time. Overall, the manufacturers thus achieved a sales increase of 1%.
Thanks to stable domestic demand, the industry achieved an increase in sales in all segments from January to September. However, the situation was different for foreign sales, which declined across the board. Due to a sharp drop in foreign business, sales of shut-off valves shrank by 2% overall. In contrast, sales of control, safety, and monitoring valves still increased by 4%. A glance at the order books shows that the negative trend of recent months will continue in the near future.
In the period from January to September 2020, German industrial valve manufacturers exported goods worth around EUR 3bn abroad. This represents a decline of 10.5% compared to the same period last year.
Business with the country’s most important trading partner, China, picked up again somewhat after a sharp dip at the beginning of the year and is currently only just (minus 1.4%) below the very good level of the previous year. In total, fittings worth EUR 401.4M were delivered to the People’s Republic. Deliveries to the second most important customer country, the USA, slumped by 18.1% to EUR 269.0M. Significantly fewer fittings were also shipped to France than in the previous year (minus 12.5%). The country nevertheless maintained its third place among the most important sales markets with a purchase volume of EUR 162.2M.
Among the key customer countries, only Switzerland and Russia stood out positively. Exports to the southern neighboring country rose by 5.3% to EUR 113.1M, and 4.3% more goods (EUR 107M) were delivered to Russia.
RAYS Supercritical Power Plant Valves
The valves supplied by RAYS to a supercritical power plant in Thailand have been successfully delivered.
Prior to this project, the Thailand power plant owners all used European imported power plant valves for the key position of supercritical high temperature and high pressure. However, after many technical exchanges, product design ideas and quality tracking control norms, a power plant owner has full confidence and trust on RAYS’ power plant valves for harsh conditions with the design, manufacture and quality control.
During the final finished product testing, SGS as the third-party inspection was invited to witness the dimension and pressure testing. The qualified rate of finished products was 100%, and the products were shipped & delivered to the owners successfully.
Endress+Hauser invests $4.5m in sales & service
The automation manufacturer and its US representative partners announce collaboration efforts to drive growth and improve customer support in 2021.
Endress+Hauser and its US representative partners will invest USD 4.5M to grow its sales and service support around the US. At a strategic time in the market, this investment will reinforce and increase Endress+Hauser’s sales channel by more than 25 percent.
A.Y. McDonald Acquires Val-Matic
A.Y. McDonald acquired Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corporation, of Elmhurst, Illinois on December 31, 2020. Val-Matic Valve was founded in 1966 by Andrew Nuter and is a manufacturer of fourteen valve product lines for the water and wastewater, industrial, commercial building construction, and plumbing industries with an additional manufacturing facility in Addison, Illinois.
Each company will continue to operate independently with separate management, market strategies and sales operations.
Stork awarded a maintenance contract by Sitech
Fluor Corporation (FLR) announced that Stork, part of Fluor’s Diversified Services segment, was awarded a 26-month maintenance contract extension by Sitech Manufacturing Services in the Netherlands. Fluor will book the undisclosed value in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Under this framework agreement, Stork will provide maintenance services and will execute projects and turnarounds. The scope of work includes mechanical, electrical and instrumentation services complemented by a portfolio of specialist services such as valves and rotating equipment maintenance and repair, high-voltage services, calibration, on-site machining and bolting, and heat treatment services. Stork will deliver these services using its site office together with Stork’s nearby Solutions Center in Elsloo and Fluor’s local engineering capabilities. Services will be provided at various renowned asset owners at the Chemelot industrial complex site in Geleen, the Netherlands.
KLINGER Brazil acquires Parva
KLINGER Brazil acquires Parva, a family-run business that specializes in valves for chlorine cylinders. KLINGER has been operating in Brazil for more than 50 years. The group has now acquired the local producer of valves, Indústria Mecânica e Artefatos de Metais Parva Ltda. The successful family business brings specialized products with promising potential into the group.
The family has always been one of the KLINGER Group’s ingredients for success. It has been, after all, a family-run business itself since 1886, just like Parva. Parva was founded in 1949 and operated by the Guerrini and Battistoni families since then. Their management has always given priority to quality, efficiency, professionalism, responsibility, and trust.
Rotork actuators for wastewater plant in Milan
Rotork IQ electric modulating actuators were selected for the Milano San Rocco Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), which serves the city of Milan, Italy.
This treatment plant represents one of the biggest examples of wastewater reuse for irrigation in the world where practically all the treated water can be reused for farm irrigation. It processes the wastewater of a population of over one million people, which equates to an average flow of 3 m3/s.
Over 30 Rotork actuators have been installed on jet valves to provide critical air regulation control at the treatment plant. The actuators have been installed to control the air-inlet in the oxidation tanks.
VALVE WORLD EXPO: Date for 2022 set
Following the cancellation of the international VALVE WORLD EXPO due to current Covid-19 infection rate, the next edition will take place from 29 November to 01 December 2022.
The VALVE WORLD EXPO, originally planned for 1 to 3 December 2020, was on a very good course until the corona-induced cancellation. The organiser Messe Düsseldorf and its partner KCI were very satisfied with the number of registrations received from exhibitors and visitors.
Paladon actuators for BNCPP-B project
Paladon has just finalized another batch of Spring to Close Pneumatic Actuators (Model PNC-118M-1590-SRC1K-ITR) and relevant Control Systems. These Actuators will be finally placed on 16”1500 Valves, inside the BNCPP-B Project, for Petronas Carigali SDN. BHD.
Control Systems are composed of Isolation Valves, Check Valves, a System Pressure Relief Valve, a Solenoid Valve with Manual Reset, a Quick Exhaust Valve, and a Speed Control Valve to control the Fail Close Stroke.
Valves for large gas processing plants in Russia
In Amur, Russia, one of the largest gas processing plants in the world is currently being built with a planned target capacity for processing of more than 42 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year. As a specialist for international projects, Siekmann Econosto is supplying the industrial valves for the construction of the plant.
Siekmann Econosto has been actively involved in the construction project since 2017 and is responsible for supplying the building with industrial valves for a German group. As one of the world’s leading gas suppliers, the contractor is relying on Siekmann Econosto’s expertise for the procurement of over 41,000 industrial valves. The company, based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has decades of experience in the global project business and works together with leading valve manufacturers from all over the world.
The German group with which Siekmann Econosto is collaborating is providing the plant manufacturer with the basic valve technology equipment for the gas treatment plant. The industrial valves used are required for petrochemical processes, such as cryogenic gas separation with helium extraction. With an order volume of more than EUR 44M, Siekmann Econosto makes use of its global network and collaborates with various sub-suppliers from China, Italy, South Korea and Germany.
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