Market Outlook 2011: Clear Skies? Wait Until 2012
Many of the attendees of this year’s Market Outlook, held Aug. 12-13 in San Francisco, came hoping (at last) to hear some good news.
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Opportunities Abound for Doing Business in Brazil
Brazil holds a tremendous amount of opportunity for manufacturers and vendors today, as it is one of the easiest of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) in which to conduct business, according to Jerry Owen, president of Intrix Americas LLC.
Forecast for the Pulp & Paper Industry: It’s a Mixed Bag
The U.S. pulp industry is now relatively consolidated with the top five companies in the U.S. accounting for 60% of revenue share in 2009, Michael Armstrong, vice president of advisory services, PricewaterhouseCoopers said when speaking to a group of valve manufacturers at VMA’s Market Outlook Workshop, held last month in San Francisco.
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A Wall Street Perspective: Indicators ‘Paint a Mixed Picture'
Wall Street expert Michael Halloran, vice president for Robert W.
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Rationalizing Valve Specifying Through Modern Data Methods
One of the presentations at the Aramco Services Company Technical Exchange Meeting in Houston in early May was entitled “Improving the Value Chain for Valves through Standardization of Metadata.” In it the presenters—Sharon Bickford, project manager at FIATECH; Ken Hamilton, project manager at PIP; Rick Hoenerhoff, associate director at PIP; and John Fish, who works in the area of customer relationships & quality assurance for Ford, Bacon, and Davis, LLC —pointed out that the process for managing valves on a project has not changed in 40 years.
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To Market, to Market: Launching a New Product or a New Company
What does it take to bring out a new product in the valve and actuator industry?
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Renewable Energy Sources Rising: Beyond Fossil Fuels
Alternate and renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, biofuel, geothermal and others, have frequently made the headlines in recent years, driven partly by worries over imported oil and the need for national energy independence, but also by discussion of possible regulation concerning greenhouse gas emissions.
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Sorting Out Wireless Standards for Smart Valves and Actuators
Back in the ’90s Profibus and Foundation fieldbus competed to replace 4-20 mA communication for field devices like valves and process transmitters with all-digital systems.
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What Makes a Company Best in Class?
Just about everyone is familiar with the term Operational Excellence (OpX), but what exactly is it and how can it be achieved?
Plenty to See and Hear at Emerson User Exchange
On September 28 more than 1,600 of Emerson Process Management’s customers, local business partners and company people gathered in Orlando for the company’s annual five-day Global Users Exchange.