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Blackhall Engineer Wins Award
Post graduate design engineer, Richard Saul, who works for specialist valve design firm Blackhall Engineering based in Brighouse, W. Yorks, has ...
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BVAA an ‘Exceptional Example of Good Practice’
Welcome to Issue 5 of BVAA’s Valve User magazine! It is my great pleasure to announce that BVAA has recently been selected for inclusion in the ...
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BVAA at Ratcliffe Power Station
The BVAA Marketing Committee recently met at Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station. The day included discussions on BVAA marketing initiatives and a very ...
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BVAA‘Mad Hatters’
How far can you go wearing a BVAA Hat?
Quite a long way it would seem! Readers are stilling sending in photos of themselves wearing the free BVAA ...
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CLEAN COAL - Dr Mike Farley, Director of Technology Policy Liaison, Doosan Babcock
Rather than being phased out, today coal is being used in increasing quantities for power generation, particularly in parts of the world including ...
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Comid Valve Services - A New Look...A New Logo...A New Era…
The name COMID has been synonymous with Valves and Valve Repair for almost 30 years. In the late seventies Comid had offices and workshops the length ...
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Dinner Dance Success!
The November AGM at Wood Hall, Wetherby, also heralded the best attended BVAA Dinner Dance for many years, with a veritable ‘who’s who’ of the ...
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Dual 3-Ported, 2-Position Valve Provides ‘Two Valves in One’ for a Compact and Cost Effective Solution
ASCO NUMATICS has introduced the Numatics 2005 Series dual 3-ported, 2-position valve. The new valve comprises two air pilot actuated valves in a ...
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European Directives Confusion: By BVAA Technical Consultant, Peter Churm
Compliance with the Essential Safety Requirements of both the Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC and the ATEX Directive 94/9/EC has been a ...
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Faster Refuelling of Compressed Natural Gas
By Dave Graham, Fluid Control Product Specialist, ASCO NUMATICS
Generating fewer exhaust and greenhouse gas emissions than petrol or diesel, ...
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Filling the UK Energy Gap: BVAA an ‘Exceptional Example of Good Practice’
Welcome to Issue 5 of BVAA’s Valve User magazine! It is my great pleasure to announce that BVAA has recently been selected for inclusion in the ...
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Has Industry Forgotten How to Cooperate in Technological Developments?
The British Hydromechanics Research Association was set up in 1947 to continue the "white heat" of technology of the war years. Steered by its ...
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Hydraulic actuators for South Atlantic floating production vessel
Photographed during installation at the Maua Jurong Shipyard in Rio de Janiero, this Rotork GH range heavy duty hydraulic failsafe actuator will ...
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Intelligent reliability with Life Cycle Services
Metso Automation recently celebrated the opening of new service centres in Brazil and Russia, and another is currently being established in China. ...
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KEYSTONE VALVES OFFER A COOL SOLUTION AT CHILL FACTORe
The recent opening of Chill Factore in Manchester, UK marks the successful completion of Tyco Flow Control’s third project with refrigeration ...
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KKI to tap into velocity control market in 2008
With a bulging order book 70 per cent ahead of budget for 2007/08, severe service valve design and manufacturing company Koso Kent Introl Ltd is ...
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Musings of an ATEX Auditor - By Roger Stillman, arcSIL Consulting
Meeting the requirements of the ATEX Directive 94/9/EC is mandatory for anyone placing on the market in Europe a product intended for use in ...
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New BVAA Chairman
BVAA has a new Chairman. We bid a fond farewell at the BVAA AGM in November 2007 to our outgoing Chairman, Mr David Caines. David has been deeply ...
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Rotork acquires Remote Control Sweden
Valve actuation specialist Rotork has announced the acquisition of Remote Control Sweden.
Remote Control Sweden has been trading since 1961 and, ...
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Rotork actuated discharge valves are Blackhall’s largest to-date
Rotork electric actuators have been specified within the terms of the company’s framework agreement with Thames Water to operate two very large and ...
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