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This valve actuator has safety functions

The TriVAX product family (photo) provides confidence through traceable, proven, transparent safety functions. Along with the company’s smart Partial Stroke Test (sPST) integrated into the valve actuator, these functions include a hydraulic-circuit safety system with high-quality components, as well as…

These venting systems are now approved for metal dust

The Q-Rohr family of indoor flameless-venting products (photo) has recently been approved for use with metal dusts. Q-Rohr systems can also be used with other types of dusts, gases and hybrid mixtures. These indoor systems eliminate the need for relocating…

Research Projects: The Importance of “Cold Eyes” Project Reviews

Follow this guidance to carry out independent project reviews of research projects that are both valuable and effective — and pain free   Independent project reviews (IPRs) are a common tool used to control, review and validate a project before…

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Advances in Pin Mill Technology

Improvements provide finer grinding at lower energy costs compared to air-swept classifying mills that have long reigned supreme in particle-size-reduction efforts For decades, the ultimate performance in fine mechanical milling performance has been provided by the air-swept classifying mill (ASCM).…

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Pump Safety: Flirting With Disaster I just finished reading your article (Pump Safety: Flirting With Disaster, pp. 67–70, December 2016) and want to indicate the following: In the third example, the text said that the HBEP/HSO is 0.7, but in…

Borealis to use Honeywell UOP technology at Kallo PP plant

Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) selected Honeywell UOP’s process technology for a proposed plant in Kallo, Belgium, that converts propane into propylene (PP), a primary ingredient for making plastics. Borealis proposes to use…

Chandra Asri selects Unipol PE process technology for new polyethylene plant

PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com), Indonesia’s largest petrochemical producer, has selected Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE Process for its new polyethylene plant that will be built in Cilegon, Indonesia, at CAP’s Naphtha Cracker Complex. The plant’s capacity…

Air Products to boost liquid nitrogen production at Middletown, Ohio plant

Air Products (LeHigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) plans to install a new liquefier at its air separation plant located in Middletown, Ohio to increase liquid nitrogen (LIN) production to meet increasing customer product needs. The new liquefier is to be onstream…

Sulzer begins construction for new pump services facility

As part of the company’s continued investment program, Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) is building a new, state-of-the-art pump services facility in Pasadena, Tex. to expand its increasing network in North America. Adjacent to the existing service center for electromechanical services,…

H.B. Fuller Company acquires Wisdom Worldwide Adhesives

H.B. Fuller Co. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.hbfuller.com) has purchased the industrial adhesives business of Wisdom Worldwide Adhesives, a provider of adhesives for the packaging, paper converting and assembly markets.  “We are pleased to welcome the employees and customers of this…