An Interview With...Andy Duffy
By: Heather Gaynor
Andy Duffy, VMA Chairman of the Board, at the 2023 annual meeting.
#VMAnews
VMA News
VMA’s mission is to serve the growth and innovation of the U.S. and Canadian industrial valve industry globally by providing a forum that enhances a positive operating environment, increases knowledge, advances technology innovations and facilitates business and government connections for manufacturers, distributors and service providers of valves, actuators and controls.
#VMAnews #maintenance-repair #automation
Emerson Exec Elected to Lead VMA Board
Andy Duffy, VP of sales for Emerson’s discrete automation business, serving as chairman of the board.
#VMAnews
Industry Profile: Greg Johnson
Greg during travels to Alaska on a fishing boat featured in The Deadliest Catch.
#VMAnews
Solon Manufacturing Celebrating 75 Years
The designer and manufacturer of Belleville spring washers continues to use creative problem-solving and collaboration to meet customer needs.
#VMAnews
New Line of Multivoltage Actuators
Indelac releases its ProVolt (PV) Series multiple voltage quarter-turn rotary electric actuator.
#actuators #VMAnews
Pilot-Operated Relief Valve for Storage Tanks
Emerson’s Fisher safety valve portfolio now includes a 2-in. model for smaller tanks.
#pressure-relief #VMAnews
Conval Appoints Ford Engineering Manager
Conval, a global manufacturer of high-performance severe service valves, recently announced that Joseph P.
#VMAnews
IMI Critical to Collaborate with FAC in South America
FAC Engenharia will focus on flow control solutions for oil and gas customers and their partners in Brazil.
#VMAnews
Flowserve Launches New Limitorque QX Series B Quarter-Turn Smart Electric Actuator
New actuator streamlines user experience and accelerates commissioning.
#actuators #VMAnews #automation
Emerson Invests in Company that Offers Fuel Optimization Technology
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), a global automation technology and software company, today announced it has made a strategic investment in Frugal Technologies, a Danish-based company that offers fuel optimization technologies that reduce energy use and emissions in shipping fleets.
#VMAnews
Digital Pneumatic Positioners for Safeguarding Productivity in Demanding Applications
With industrial plants under constant pressure to improve sustainability, efficiency and productivity in demanding site applications, plants need to regularly review their facility’s existing valve care controller capabilities.
#VMAnews #controls
Emerson's New Digital Process Controller Brings Simplicity and Flexibility
Fisher FIELDVUE DPC2K digital process controllers reliably upgrade performance, safety and compliance by making more data available to operators.
#VMAnews #controls
Cryogenic Valve from Flowserve Designed to Help Control Fugitive Emissions
New valve provides high reliability and uptime while ensuring global compliance with fire-safe and environmental standards.
#VMAnews #ball-butterfly-plug
Edge Solution from Emerson's DeltaV Provides Sandbox for Developers
DeltaV Edge Environment allows teams to deploy and run applications with easy, secure and contextualized data access.
#iiot #VMAnews
Reflecting on 2023 and Looking Ahead to 2024
By: Heather Rhoderick
The fall issue of Valve is starting to become a favorite of mine, mostly because it provides the opportunity to share with the greater industrial valve industry value chain a lot of the activities and benefits that VMA member companies can take advantage of.
#VMAnews
Emerson’s New Valve Trim Technology Improves Noise Reduction and Flow Efficiency
Fisher Whisper trim solution leverages additive manufacturing to implement optimized process designs, providing 20% more valve capacity with 10 fewer decibels of noise.
#VMAnews
ITT 2023 Sustainability Report Announces Progress Towards Targets
Results included a 7% reduction in GHG emissions and a 10% increase in spending with diverse U.S. suppliers for the year.
#VMAnews