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INDUSTRY
FLOW-QUIP PROVIDES
ACTUATORS FOR PIPELINE
Flow-Quip, Inc. was selected by
Petroterminal de Panama, S.A. to supply two
24-inch, ANSI 600 ball-type flow control
valves on the reverse flow and upgrade of the
pipeline from the Caribbean to the Pacific.
The pipeline was originally constructed from
the Pacific to the Atlantic in 1979 with the
foresight to allow reverse flow from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
Today it is under reverse flow construction
from the Atlantic coast terminal located in
the Laguna de Chiriqui in the province of
Bocas del Toro, Panama to the West side of
the Charco Azul Bay and East side of the
Burica Peninsula in the province of Chiriqui,
Panama.
ROTORK SUPPLYING METSO
FOR PETROCHEMICAL PROJECT
Rotork has been awarded contracts with
values over 1 million euros for the supply of
fluid power and electric valve actuators for a
major petrochemical expansion project in the
Far East. The actuators are being supplied to
Metso Automation through Rotork’s agent in
Finland, Fluid Control Oy, and Orton in Italy.
The Shell Eastern Petrochemicals
Complex project includes modifications and
additions to the Pulau Bukom refinery, a new
monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant on Jurong
Island and a new catalytic cracker on Bukom
Island to supply the MEG plant. Main
contractors Lummus and Foster Wheeler UK
are performing the engineering.
MASTERGEAR RECEIVES
PIPELINE ORDER
Galperti Engineering in Italy has ordered
Mastergear’s sub-sea gears (patent pending)
with internal, intelligent compensation, which
are to be installed in the Nord Stream
pipeline at about 1000 feet (308m) in depth.
Nord Stream is a gas pipeline that will link
Russia and the European Union via the Baltic
Sea. Delivery of these units is scheduled for
early June 2009. The units’ output torques
range from 47,000 in. lbs (5400Nm) to
200,000 in. lbs (24000Nm).
CAPSULES
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Mueller Water Products… has named
Gregory S. Rogowski president of its
Mueller Co. subsidiary. He will report to
Robert Leggett, COO of Mueller Water
Products.
Rogowski has 28 years of experience
in positions of increasing responsibility
at the corporate, divisional and operational levels for companies that are recognized leaders in their industries.
ITT… appointed Robert J. Pagano,
Jr. president of Industrial Process, one of
the ITT Corporation fluid businesses
headquartered in Seneca Falls, NY. ITT
Industrial Process manufacturers and
markets industrial pumps, valves, monitoring and control systems, water treatment products and aftermarket services
globally.
Pagano replaces Ken Napolitano, who
has been named president of ITT’s Residential and Commercial Water value center headquartered in Morton Grove, IL.
He was most recently vice president of
Finance for ITT Corporation.
The new line of sub-sea actuators has been
hyperbarically tested to 13,550 feet (4000m)
of depth without any decay in performance or
appearance. This product line is available
with manual or ROV inputs with output
torque capabilities up to 1,200,000 in. lbs
(140000Nm).
PBM ESTABLISHES ASME NQA- 1
PROGRAM
PBM Inc. has recently implemented an
ASME NQA- 1 Quality Assurance Program for
nuclear facility applications. This new pro-
gram is in addition to PBM’s long established
ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Pro-
gram. Implementation of ASME NQA- 1,
accompanied with the anticipated receipt of
ASME “N” and “NPT” certificates by fourth
quarter 2009, will afford PBM the opportuni-
ty to service a broad range of nuclear facility
valve applications at its facility in Irwin, PA.
