A successfully commissioned valve is crucial for trouble free performance. Unfortunately, the period between valve testing and commissioning is when the valve goes through lots of abuse and mishandling leading to non-performance. Here’s an overview of the steps that should be taken in order to safeguard ball valves and ensure performance.

Energy-aware dairy plant cuts costs – Schneider Electric has designed innovative solutions for the dairy industry, which reduces energy consumption by improved controls through its tested validated documented control blocks.

The University of Bayreuth under its H₂ Giga project focuses on the research, development, and industrial production of high-performance, low-cost electrolyzers to meet Germany's demand for green hydrogen. One of the seven H₂ Giga projects called ‘HTs: HTEL Stacks – Ready for Gigawatt’ has received funding of more than 11,00,000 dollars. Chair of Ceramic Materials Engineering at the University of Bayreuth is responsible for this collaborative project.

Sibur and Cryogenmash have signed an agreement to build an industrial gas production facility at ZapSibNeftekhim.

Huntsman’s Performance Products division will be expanding its polyurethane catalysts and specialty amines production facility in Petfurdo, Hungary. The move is expected to increase the company’s global capacity and to provide innovative technologies for the polyurethane, coatings, metalworking and electronics industries.

Tranter has launched a new service app called ‘TranterCare’ that helps customers work proactively with their heat exchanger maintenance and schedule service quickly. The app will first be launched in India and later be scaled for global use.

Electron beam welding, vacuum furnaces or freeze drying are just a few applications that can be realized with the new Roots pumps of the Hi Lobe series from Pfeiffer Vacuum.

SNC-Lavalin announced that it has been awarded a five-year extension to its existing General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) contract with Saudi Aramco.

Digitalization in process automation was not a complete surprise, according to CTO Roland Bent, Phoenix Contact. But “it was not necessarily the obvious, logical conclusion of what happened in the years before.” He sees great potential in new approaches like NOA (Namur Open Architecture) and MTP (Module Type Package) — also for his own company.

Ever since the 1920s, Phoenix Contact has been driven by one thing: the pursuit of “better.” Already in its early years, the company demonstrated with its first series terminal block, the so-called RWE terminal block, that it works closely with its customers on all new developments. Then and today, it has always been about connectivity: from the field, through mapping and on to connectivity to the process control level. And time and time again, Phoenix Contact products have spearheaded new technology trends.