MANUFACTURING

Education

Dow Doubles Commitment to $2 Million for Manufacturing's Largest Workforce Campaign

Dow's new contribution promotes Creators Wanted program to continue recruiting more workers to the manufacturing industry.

Manufacturing

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.
#controls #materials

Manufacturing

Grappling with the World's Complex Energy Transition Through an ESG Lens

By: Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

With a long list of contributing factors, the world is barreling headlong into an energy transition that’s full of challenges, opportunities and lofty net-zero goals.
#pressure-relief

Technical

Editor's Product Picks

Neles introduces valve-sizing and selection software for all intelligent automated process valves.
#automation #VMAnews #controls

Manufacturing

U. S. Steel Announces Update on Metallics Strategy

U.S. Steel Corporation announced it would expand its low-cost iron ore competitive advantage and increase its self-sufficiency by supplying domestic feedstock to its growing fleet of electric arc furnaces (EAFs).
#materials

Manufacturing

LEGO Carbon-neutral Facility to be Built in Virginia

LEGO Group to invest more than $1 billion to build a new factory in Virginia.

Manufacturing

Siemens Announces New R&D Collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

CATCH will be the entry point for many manufacturers to understand how and why additive manufacturing is crucial to designing products more effectively, manufacturing them closer to the point of purchase and creating a more resilient supply chain.
#iiot #VMAnews #automation

Manufacturing

U.S. House Approves Oversight of Ocean Shipping to Combat Inflation and Backlogs

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

The bill would boost the investigatory authority of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) and increase industry transparency.

Manufacturing

Mueller Delivers HYMAX Pro Dedicated Size Coupling

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

This line of flexible couplings is engineered for new construction projects to provide an easy and safe means of joining same-size plain end pipes without the need for welding and/or special pipe fittings.
#VMAnews #water-wastewater

Manufacturing

Houston Ship Channel Begins $1B Expansion

By: Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

Project 11 aims to widen and deepen the Houston Ship Channel, allowing for safer vessel navigation along the 52-mile channel.