NEWS

Design

TerraPower Awards Natrium Reactor Enclose System Contracts

ENSA, Doosan Enerbility, HD Hyundai and Marmen were all named as partner manufacturers.  

A Royal's Visit to a Valve Manufacturing Facility

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visits Crane Company’s new Saunders Valves manufacturing facility in Cwmbran, South Wales.  

Applications

Westinghouse and BWXT Canada Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Nuclear Projects

Agreement supports deployment of advanced reactors in Canada and globally.  

R.E. Mason Joins Valve Repair Council

R.E. Mason recently joined the Valve Repair Council. The company serves customers in the energy, life sciences, pulp and paper and chemical industries.
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Design

Liquid Cooling Technology for Data Center Cooling

Technology from Nexalus will work with Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers to turn data centers into closed-loop clean energy power stations.  

Meta's Largest Data Center Will be Built in Northeast Louisiana

Project is expected to result in 500 or more direct new jobs, more than 1,000 indirect jobs and 5,000 construction workers at peak.

Motion Signs Agreement to Purchase Operating Assets of ICR

The sale is expected to close by the end of the year.

Exxon Mobil Announces Leadership Changes

Liam M. Mallon, president of ExxonMobil Upstream Company and VP of Exxon Mobil Corp. will retire effective February 1, 2025.  

Insights

Successful Conference on Fluoropolymer Restriction Impact on Flow Control Industry

By: Heather Gaynor, Editor, Valve Magazine

VMA, the Hydraulic Institute and the Fluid Sealing Association collaborated as part of the Flow Control Coalition to bring together industry experts and stakeholders on this topic.  
#VMAnews

Manufacturing

Floating Offshore Wind Platform Assembled in 40 Hours

This assembly by Aikido represents a 10x speed improvement in assembly.