VMA Welcomes Caltrol Inc.
Caltrol, established in 1934, is an employee-owned company and Emerson Impact Partner.
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Emerson Sells Its Three Millionth Digital Valve Controller
Emerson customers have purchased three million Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controllers over the past three decades.
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Market Outlook Workshop Speakers Offer Insight Into Possible Recession, Ongoing Supply Chain Issues and Political Impacts for 2023
By: Heather Gaynor, Editor, Valve Magazine
From the positive impacts of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to the negative repercussions from the war in Ukraine, external forces continue to shape an uncertain future.
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Enhanced Software Helps Unlock the Benefits of Control System Virtualization
Control personnel can quickly deploy a virtualized infrastructure that improves performance while also future-proofing their operations.
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Eastern Controls, Inc., Expands its Reach as a SICK, Inc. Authorized Representative
Expansion add more territories in the northeast U.S. coverage.
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Understanding Torque for Quarter-Turn Valves
Valve manufacturers publish torques for their products so that actuation and mounting hardware can be properly selected.
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Neles Q-Disc Helps Improve Process Performance in Control Valve Applications
Valmet expands its versatile butterfly valve product range. The Neles Q-Disc joins Valmet’s lineup of the modular Neles Neldisc and the Jamesbury Wafer-Sphere butterfly valve platform.
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Direct-Sealing Diaphragm Valves Offer Novel Approach
As modern industries such as hydrogen electrolysis and biotech make dramatic technical advances, engineers and researchers must sometimes turn to nontraditional process control systems.
#controls #automation #pressure-relief
New Technologies Solve Severe Cavitation Problems
An advanced anti-cavitation control valve design enabled by 3D metal printing solved a power plant’s severe cavitation problem and dramatically improved its bottom line.
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The Diverse Role Valves Play in the Chemical Industry
The chemical industry is extremely diverse with more than 60,000 known products. Like all process industries, the chemical industry needs valves designed for safe, efficient and reliable process operation.
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Editor's Product Picks
Neles introduces valve-sizing and selection software for all intelligent automated process valves.
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Emerson’s New Emergency Shutdown Discrete Valve Controller Improves Safety, Uptime in Hazardous Applications
TopWorx DX Partial Stroke Test with HART 7 provides detailed valve assembly data and diagnostics, enabling predictive maintenance and reliable operation.
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Emergency Shutoff Valve Automation with Cowan’s E2H-ESD Actuator
By: Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine
“We designed this product around the modular concept to allow the customer to have the flexibility to remove the hydraulics and controls in the field with very minimal work since an important reason for failure of electric and electrohydraulic actuators is vibration in the pipe transferred to the process valve,” says Maria Aguirre, director of Business Development.
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Flowserve DiamondBack Cavitation Solution Control Valves
Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine
Flowserve’s new DiamondBack trim offers control valve cavitation elimination with a focus on performance, efficiency and versatility.
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Great Lakes Process Controls Joins Recent Allied Valve Acquisitions
Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine
The four companies have been merged to form Allied Instrumentation.
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NECI's NYNE Mechanical Merges with Emerson Final Control
Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine
NYNE will be leveraging this merger to expand its Bangor, ME operations and integrate the Emerson Auburn, MA, and both the Albany and Rochester, NY shops to serve more clients locally throughout the region.
#pressure-relief #VMAnews #controls
Control Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards Include Several VMA Members
By: Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine
Awards were bestowed to Bray International, Neles, Flowserve, Emerson and Baker Hughes across the magazine’s Final Control Elements category.
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Curtiss-Wright releases new motor and actuator with integral controls
Edited by Chris Pasion, Managing Editor, Modern Machine Shop | Production Machining
The SAL080 linear actuator is reportedly capable of continuous force ratings up to 2330 lb-ft (linear) and the SA-R080 is capable of torque up to 24.7 lb-in. (rotary).
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ValvTechnologies welcomes Quality Controls Inc. as a distributor
Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine
ValvTechnologies has picked Quality Controls Inc. (QCI) as a new distributor.
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NECI announces merger with Northeast Controls
New England Controls Inc. and Northeast Controls Inc. announced an agreement to merge their two companies. Both are Emerson Impact Partners serving customers in New England and upstate New York.
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