NEWS

Applications

Moog Actuation Provides Precision Motion Control for Gremlins Air Recovery Mission

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

The Gremlins Program, managed by the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA), demonstrates aerial launch and recovery of multiple low-cost, reusable, unmanned aerial systems.
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Technical

James Webb Launch Caps Exciting Year for Equilibar

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

Equilibar (whose parent company is Richards Industrials) products are used in a broad range of industries, including catalysis, fuel cells, aerospace, biopharma and green energy.
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Design

Emerson Awarded "Industrial IoT Company of the Year"

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

The company’s Plantweb ecosystem of sensors, smart devices, industrial software and analytics is the most comprehensive in the industry. Emerson also designs and delivers more smart sensing devices than any company in the world.
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Applications

AZ Governor Looks Ahead Toward Desalination Plant

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

Other shorter-term projects include technology like drip irrigation to grow crops more efficiently.

Applications

2022 Oil Price Forecast Raised by EIA

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

The latest outlook continues to reflect heightened levels of uncertainty as a result of ongoing COVID-19 fallout and the Omicron variant that raises questions about global energy consumption.

MRO

United Valve Acquires Global Service & Repair's Assets

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

The acquisition and installation of GSR’s special grinding equipment will allow United Valve to better perform repair and service on all types of metallic plug valve designs.
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Insights

Parsing Out and Breaking Down the Great Resignation

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

At 2.3%, manufacturing quit rates were below the national average of 3% in November 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

Manufacturing

Sustainability Transition is a Priority Among Manufacturing Execs

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

The question now is no longer if, or whether, manufacturing needs to work to create a cleaner, greener and more globally responsible industrial future. It’s all about the when and how it can get there in the most effective and swiftest way possible.

Manufacturing

Gardner Business Index for December 2021: 57.6

By: Michael Guckes, Former Chief Economist & Director of Analytics

GBI ends 2021 slightly better than where the year started.

Applications

Infrastructure Czar Pushes for State-level Implementation Coordinators

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

President Biden's infrastructure czar Mitch Landrieu sent letters to all the nation’s governors on Tuesday urging them to appoint their own infrastructure implementation coordinators to smooth the rollout of the $1.2 trillion law.