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Pumps India Newsletter
- April.2021
Rotork Electric Actuation technology at WTPs
Rotork IQ and IQT actuators have been ordered to be fitted on several water treatment plants in New Zealand. The Matamata (home of Hobbiton in the Lord of the Rings movies) Piako District Council, of New Zealand’s North Island, has chosen to upgrade multiple sites from pneumatic to electric actuators.
The flow control of three large water treatment sites will be upgraded when existing pneumatic actuators are replaced with actuators from Rotork’s IQ range. Rotork will supply these with stainless steel pedestals where required.
Over 100 actuators across the IQ range were ordered, including IQT and IQS variants. These reliable and robust actuators provide an innovative electric flow control solution, with an intuitive user interface (HMI), absolute position sensor, water ingress protection, and detailed data logging.
KSB Satisfied With Financial performance in Covid-19 year
KSB, the Frankenthal-based manufacturer of pumps and valves, is satisfied with the 2020 financial year, even though order intake, sales revenue and earnings were down on the strong prior year due to the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic.
KSB Satisfied with Financial Statements for a Year Overshadowed by COVID-19. The company expects key financial figures to improve significantly in the 2021 anniversary year.
The volume of orders received in the 2020 financial year was € 2,143.4 million, € 310.4 million (– 12.6%) lower than in the previous year. Sales revenue reached € 2,207.9 million, a decrease of € 175.3 million (– 7.4%).
Sales revenue in the Pumps, Valves and Service Segments picked up considerably in the second half of the year, but ultimately fell short of the prior-year level. The largest Segment, Pumps, was impacted the least, down 6% to € 1,468.0 million. This was primarily attributable to a solid order book and long-term projects. The Valves Segment achieved sales revenue of € 335.5 million (– 7.9%) and the Service Segment € 404.5 million (– 11.4%). At the same time, further progress was made with the digitalisation of products, services and processes. Furthermore, KSB invested in major sustainability projects and site modernisations.
Paladon actuators for GE Energy in Bangladesh
Paladon Systems has announced that another batch of Actuators is ready to leave its plant. Actuators are Pneumatic Spring to Close and Spring to Open, Quarter Turn (Models: PNS-8-1256-SRC10F & PNS-1-314-SRO11B). Their final destination will be Bangladesh, inside the AM80 Project, for GE Energy.
Paladon Actuators will be installed on 4’’x3’’/1500 & 1’’x0,75’’/1500 Ball Valves. All Actuators have a Smart Positioner to control operations
AMPO supplies 2550 LNG valves in Thailand
AMPO POYAM VALVES is currently supplying more than 2,550 highly engineered ball, butterfly, gate, globe, and check valves for the new Nong Fab LNG receiving terminal project, which will be located in Rayong province, in the south-east of Thailand. The engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of this project is being led by SPCC, a joint venture between Saipem and CTCI, some of the main worldwide EPCs in the development of major projects in the energy sector.
For this receiving terminal AMPO POYAM VALVES has designed and manufactured more than 2,550 highly engineered LNG valves: cryogenic ball valves up to 42” and with the pressure varying from 150 lbs to 900 lbs, cryogenic butterfly valves up to 42” and cryogenic and non-cryogenic gate, globe and check valves.
McWane Plant acquired Tri-Seal Valve Line
McWane Plant & Industrial (MPI) has acquired the Tri-Seal Valve product line, including the widely-specified Quarter-Flex family of high-performance industrial butterfly valves. For decades, Tri-Seal has been the domestic manufacturers of industrial butterfly valves.
The products are 100% American-made, including domestic castings and components. They meet all project requirements for domestic products including Buy American, American Iron and Steel, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Tri-Seal line expands McWane Plant & Industrial’s product offering for industrial fluid control applications, complementing the company’s Kennedy Valve, Waterman, and Clearwater Manufacturing offerings.
Rotork joins Endress+Hauser open integration program
Rotork has joined the Endress+Hauser Open Integration partner program. Endress+Hauser, the provision of process and laboratory instrumentation, products, and solutions for industrial process measurement and automation. Their Open Integration program is a collaboration of 13 manufacturers, now including Rotork, to streamline the interaction of complementing products. All partners in the program are suppliers of control technology, Fieldbus infrastructures, measurement technology, or actuator technology.
This new initiative for Rotork removes integration issues of multi-vendor solutions and improves integration for communication protocols. This Open Integration program from Endress+Hauser is built on a foundation of intelligent field devices, of all kinds, working productively together.
MRC Global celebrating its 100th year in business
On February 15, 1921, McJunkin Supply Company was founded in the hills of West Virginia, and over the next 100 years, companies from around the world would be established and grow into what is now known as MRC Global. Together, these heritage companies built the leading pipe, valve, and fitting (PVF) distributor for the global oil and gas industry.
MRC Global will celebrate its 100th anniversary throughout 2021.
Korean Valve supplier enters the US market
OKV (OKKWANG ENGINEERING CO., LTD.), a Korean specialist valve supplier for the shipbuilding and offshore industry, is entering the U.S. market.
Founded in 1988, OKV began supplying ultra-low temperature valves, high-temperature, and high-pressure valves at home and abroad through 30 years of ceaseless research and development.
OKV’s flagship valve products are gate valves, globe valves, swing check valves, ball valves, and transformer valves. Also, they manufacture cryogenic valves mainly used in piping systems for storage and transportation of cryogenic fluids (liquefied gas LNG, LPG, N2, and O2).
OKV, which started its business as Korean shipbuilding and offshore valve company, played a key role in the development of the shipbuilding industry and announced that it aims to become a global onshore and offshore valve specializing company by dedicating to new products development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
RPP wins orders worth 1000 crore, inc CWSS
RPP Infra Projects has received four letters of acceptance for new projects worth Rs 1,000.01 crore across various sectors. |
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