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An Interview With...Andy Duffy

Andy Duffy, VMA Chairman of the Board, at the 2023 annual meeting.

Heather Gaynor
Editor, VALVE Magazine, Gardner Business Media

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Industry Profile: Greg Johnson

Greg during travels to Alaska on a fishing boat featured in The Deadliest Catch.

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.

New Line of Multivoltage Actuators

Indelac releases its ProVolt (PV) Series multiple voltage quarter-turn rotary electric actuator.

Pilot-Operated Relief Valve for Storage Tanks

Emerson’s Fisher safety valve portfolio now includes a 2-in. model for smaller tanks.

Conval Appoints Ford Engineering Manager

Conval, a global manufacturer of high-performance severe service valves, recently announced that Joseph P.

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.

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.

Flowserve Launches New Limitorque QX Series B Quarter-Turn Smart Electric Actuator

New actuator streamlines user experience and accelerates commissioning.

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.

MRO

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.

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.

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.

Design

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.

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Perspectives

Happy New Year, and thanks for reading the revised Valve Magazine!

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Reflecting on 2023 and Looking Ahead to 2024

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.

VMA News

Updates on VMA’s annual meeting and priorities for the next year.

Design

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.

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.

MRC Global To Provide Key Valves for Swedish Refinery Biofuel Project

This major project will make the Lysekil Refinery the largest producer of renewable fuels in Scandinavia.

Design

IMI Critical Engineering Launches New Steam Trap Monitoring Solution

Compact design is easy to install on either side of the steam trap.

Emerson Exec Elected to Lead VMA Board

Andy Duffy, VP of sales for Emerson’s discrete automation business, serving as chairman of the board.

Interim CEO of Velan Appointed

Bruno Carbonaro resigns as president/CEO and Jim Mannebach named interim CEO; Rishi Sharma promoted to CFAO.

Design

New Valve Controller from Emerson Offers Embedded Edge Computing

Fisher Fieldvue DVC7K offers “Advice at the Device” tech with real-time analytics for valve health diagnostics and corrective actions.

Flowserve Intends to Terminate Agreement to Acquire Velan

French authorities have informed both Flowserve and Velan that they will not provide the requisite regulatory approval for the sale of Velan to Flowserve.

Applications

Next Generation of Automation Announced by Emerson

New solutions to deliver smarter, safer, optimized and sustainable industrial operations.

MSS Appoints New Leadership and Staff

New executive director and technical coordinator named by the board of directors.

Design

Mueller Launches New Knife Gate Valve for Industrial Applications

Pratt P77 perimeter-seated bi-directional valve is engineered to handle tough slurries and abrasive materials.

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