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Acquisition improves valve manufacturing capabilities

By: David Oliveira 15th May 2015 Engineering solutions provider Bearing Man Group (BMG) has improved its valve-manufacturing capabilities with its acquisition of Krugersdorp-based valve manufacturer Klep Valves in October last year. BMG fluid technology manager Wayne Holton tells Engineering News that the group’s journey into... →

New valve launched for food and dairy industries

15th May 2015 International technology group GEA announced, in February this year, the launch of its new range of large inlet rotary valves for food and dairy powder products, which are designed specifically for applications that require an uninterrupted powder flow through the valve. The design angle of the... →

Company expands distribution and support for cartridge valves

15th May 2015 Hydraulic systems and components supplier Hytec Group announced last month that it has increased its distribution and support for the full range of Bosch Rexroth Oil Control cartridge valves throughout sub-Saharan Africa, as part of a new joint venture into Africa. This expanded support will... →

Schools in the Mother City install water-saving control valve

By: David Oliveira 15th May 2015 Water-leak detection and control systems provider AquaTrip has been contracted by the Department of Public Works to supply about 8 000 Aquatrip leak-detection control valves to 1 500 schools and the public ablution facilities in the City of Cape Town, collectively valued at about R5-million. The... →

AQUATRIP The leak-detection control valve monitors the flow of water and will automatically close and prevent unnecessary water loss

Dome valve installation under way at Matla

By: David Oliveira 15th May 2015 Materials handling company Clyde Bergemann Africa (CBZ) is installing its dome valves on the fly ash conveying systems at State-owned power utility Eskom’s Matla Unit 3 coal-fired power station, in Mpumalanga. CBZ engineering manager Keitumetse Molamu tells Engineering News that installation... →

MATLA POWER STATION
Clyde Bergemann Africa is supplying about 240 of its new-generation dome valves to Eskom’s Matla Unit 3 coal-fired power station

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MATLA POWER STATION Clyde Bergemann Africa is supplying about 240 of its new-generation dome valves to Eskom’s Matla Unit 3 coal-fired power station

Rexus Trading

15th May 2015 Established in 2010, pipes, valves, couplings and fittings designer, manufacturer and supplier Rexus Trading manufactures a range of couplings, flange adaptors and stepped couplings under the KII brand for the water and wastewater markets. The company also manufactures a range of pipe fittings... →

Global flow control company secures Brazil supply contract

15th May 2015 Global flow control products and services provider Flowserve announced, in March, that its operation in Brazil has been selected to supply all ball sector control valves, ball valves and butterfly valves for Brazilian paper producer Klabin’s new mill, known as the Puma project, located in the... →

Plastic valves gain foothold in market

By: Donna Slater 7th November 2014 Continuous development in the design and manufacture of plastic valves has created an opportunity for these valves in the potable-water market that was previously dominated by metal valves, says Cape Town-based piping systems company Alprene Plastic Products. →

PVC VALVE The polyvinyl chloride union ball valve is a compact type of valve featuring full flow and axial pipe load block

Valves cluster joins expo

7th November 2014 The 20-member-strong Valve and Actuator Manufacturers Cluster of South Africa (Vamcosa) announced, last month, that it will, again, participate in the Pumps, Valves and Pipes Africa (PVPA) expo that forms part of the successful South African Industry & Technology Fair (Indutec). →

VALVES INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTED The Valve and Actuator Manufacturers Cluster of South Africa aims to promote and facilitate much-needed growth in the local valve and actuator manufacturing industry

Valves range redesigned

7th November 2014 The entire control valve range of valves company AZ-Armaturen has undergone a complete redesign, resulting in a modular system that increases productivity in the process, food, chemical and petrochemical industries, the company says. →

NEW DESIGN The construction of the control valves is based on the standard cavity-free plug valve

Trade fair grows since inception in 2010

7th November 2014 The international valve trade fair Valve World Expo, held at the Düsseldorf exhibition centre, Germany, from December 2 to 4, is a biennial trade fair for industrial valves and has experienced continuous growth at the Düsseldorf location, fair director Friedrich-Georg Kehrer says. →

FRIEDRICH-GEORG KEHRER Valves form the basis and serve as the interface for upstream and downstream technologies

Exhibition promotes industry growth

7th November 2014 Global forecasts of increased growth in the pumps, valves and pipes sector reflect market realities and include predictions of growth in Africa, which is evident in the strong industry support for the forthcoming Pumps, Valves & Pipes Africa (PVPA) Expo, which takes place from May 20 to 22, 2015... →

BROADENING INDUSTRY The Pumps, Valves & Pipes Africa Expo provides an ideal platform for suppliers to reach new and existing markets and explore business opportunities

Built-in safety valve improves safety and reliability

By: Donna Slater 7th November 2014 Sales of the Smoothflo gas pressure regulator, that is equipped with a piston-embedded safety valve, from gas and welding company Afrox, exceeded expectations for the first year and, subsequently, helped to accelerate global demand. →

IMPROVED SAFETY
The embedded design of Smoothflo leads to fewer instances of safety valve-removal or tampering by unauthorised personnel

Afrox business manager Devandran Naicker tells Engineering News’ Dylan Slater about the future of the company’s new gas regulator.

Mining valve improves backfill efficiency

By: Donna Slater 7th November 2014 A mining-specific diverter valve, designed to improve the efficiency of paste backfill operations, is experiencing significant interest in the South African market after being launched in the country at the Electra Mining Africa trade show, which was held from September 12 to 16, in Johannesburg. →

DIVERTER VALVE The series-725 diverter valve is designed to deliver significant time and cost savings in the field

Largest nozzle check valve delivered for pipeline project

By: Mia Breytenbach 9th May 2014 Local valves manufacturer Aveng Manufacturing DFC has delivered a nozzle check-valve – the largest yet manufactured by Dynamic Fluid Control – for installation in a pipeline project in a neighbouring State in February, DFC mining and water executive director Pat Stander tells Engineering News.... →

LARGE DELIVERY The 1 200 mm Vent-O-Mat Model B nozzle check-valve weighs about 5 t and has a flow range of 800 ℓ/s to 4 500 ℓ/s

Industry revamp to support local valves designation policy

By: Mia Breytenbach 9th May 2014 Owing to the new valves designation policy, local valves manufacturer and supplier Premier Valves will continue to invest in significantly increasing its capacity for local valve production during this year, says company CEO Peter Thomson. The valves designation policy, which is managed by the... →

Drive to establish valves range as household name

By: Mia Breytenbach 9th May 2014 Valve and steel supplier Stewarts & Lloyds has systematically expanded its scope of valves supply and currently markets its products under the Stewarts & Lloyds Valves (Salvalve) brand of valves. “Products in the range include butterfly, gate, ball and resilient seal valves, which are... →

Foundry expects 15% growth in valve casting demand

By: Mia Breytenbach 9th May 2014 To meet the increase in demand in valves and valve-casting manufacturing, specialist foundry group Steloy Castings has invested more than R1-million in new facilities and technologies, which includes the installation of a new cold box core-making machine, states Steloy marketing and sales... →

CASTING EXPECTATIONS Steloy Castings expects a 15% growth in the valve-casting sector of the market

Increased valves stock to ensure market availability

By: Mia Breytenbach 9th May 2014 While valves and valve components supplier Macneil Steel & Valves (MSV) is currently involved in three significant projects, valued collectively at more than R5-million, in the sewage and water treatment industry, MSV project manager Brian Saverton says the company has also increased its stock to... →

INCREASED AVAILABILITY Macneil Steel & Valves will stock several valves ranges, including the Vent-O-Mat ranges

SA valves company acquired by oil and gas specialist

9th May 2014 South African valves company Control Valve Technology (CVT), which provides servicing, refurbishment and sale of control and safety valves used in the energy, mining and petrochemical industries, was last month acquired by oil and gas engineering specialist EnerMech as a going concern. The deal... →

NEW DEAL EnerMech CEO Doug Duguid (left) with CVT MD Stephen David outside the company’s Cape Town premises

Innovation necessary for competitive valve manufacturing

9th May 2014 The South African valve industry is currently in an interesting stage of evolution, owing to local manufacture transformation and innovation challenges, states designer, manufacturer and distributor of valves and related products Rexus Trading MD Allistair Balutto. Citing a recent study by a... →

VALVE EVOLUTION Innovation will be a key factor in realising competitive local valve manufacturing

Steam trap provides solution to condensate problems

By: Mia Breytenbach 9th May 2014 The ability of valves supplier Heaton Valves’ Powertrap GT10 to improve production by removing condensate from steam systems where stall may occur makes it an increasingly popular solution for the petrochemical, food and beverage and motor industries that are having problems with heat-exchanger... →

IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY The Powertrap GT10 reduces steam usage in industry heat exchangers

Local valve procurement strengthened by partnerships

By: Mia Breytenbach 9th May 2014 The Valve and Actuator Manufacturers Cluster of South Africa (Vamcosa) has established working groups with several State-owned entities (SOEs) to encourage local valve procurement, says Vamcosa champion Greg Walker. This follows after the instruction note for the local valves designation was... →

ENCOURAGING ENTREPRENEURS Local valve designation will stimulate entrepreneurial opportunities in the industry

KSB Pumps

9th May 2014 Manufacturer of pumps, valves and related systems KSB, which was established in South Africa in 1959, provides systems for a wide range of markets, including water, sewage, the industrial sector, which includes chemicals, petrochemicals and steel, as well as the mining, energy and building... →

Valve manufacturer expands servicing facilities

9th May 2014 Valve and pump manufacturer KSB Pumps and Valves Southern Africa (KSB) continues to invest in service equipment and facilities to meet growing demands for workmanship that is able to meet strict local regulations and satisfy international quality standards, says KSB valves services manager Ryan... →

Photo by Duane Daws
SERVICE INVESTMENT KSB Pumps has expanded its facilities to meet growing servicing demand

Retrofitting service increasingly popular, owing to rising costs

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 The re-engineering of existing valves is becoming increasingly more attractive, owing to their escalating cost, says valve manufacturer PSV Mitech senior design engineer Peter Connan. He says that PSV Mitech offers a valve retrofit service that fits new internals and top works to an original valve. →

COST-SAVING SERVICE PSV Mitech offers a valve retrofit service that fits new internals and top works to an original valve

Company contemplates localising operations, system reduces water wastage

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Water-leak detection and control systems provider AquaTrip South Africa is investigating the possibility of locally manufacturing its valves and other water-leak detection systems next year, AquaTrip South Africa sales director Chris De Wet Steyn tells Engineering News. The AquaTrip system is... →

AQUATRIP VALVE The lithium battery-operated water meter has an inbuilt water valve that acts as a water-supply trip switch

Initial Swedish valves sales lacklustre, product marketing to be intensified

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Valve distributor Kerr Valve & Industrial Supplies has sold only a small number of TA Hydronics thermostatic circulation valves over the past six months to several hotels in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, owing to the lack of familiarity with the product by a large portion of the market. Kerr Valve &... →

THERMOSTATIC CIRCULATION VALVE The product automatically balances commercial hot water systems

Israeli control valves popular in South African agriculture sector

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Sales of Israeli manufactured Dorot control valves in South Africa continue to increase, since two new ranges were introduced last year, reports local irrigation and agricultural solutions provider Agrico. The company has sold several hundreds of these units to farms, nurseries, and landscape and... →

DOROT CONTROL VALVES Agrico has sold several hundred Dorot plastic control valves to farms, nurseries, and landscaping and semicommercial projects

SA distribution rights secured for Chinese valves

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Energy Valves, a division of specialist alloys and valve supplier Energy Engineered Products (EEP), was appointed in June as the sole Southern Africa distributor for Chinese special alloy valve products manufacturer Weidouli Special Valve (WSV). “EEP has long been involved with the distribution... →

GRAHAM WHITTY The Weidouli Special Valve range of high-quality stainless steel, high-performance alloys and special alloy valves are suited to extremely challenging, corrosive and high-temperature environments

Range launched for abrasive mining conditions

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Valve manufacturer Omsa has introduced a range of FPV diaphragm valves, which are specifically designed for use in abrasive and corrosive mining conditions, Omsa valves divisional manager Gregor Hopton tells Mining Weekly. →

FPV VALVES RANGE Although the FPV valves range is newly launched, a lot of trial work and test applications have been undertaken over the course of the last 12 months at various customers’ mine sites in Africa

Upgraded pinch valves range introduced

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Dynamic fluid control company Aveng Manufacturing Dynamic Fluid Control (DFC) reports that its upgraded mechanically operated RF pinch valve, which was introduced in March 2011, has been well received by the market. Aveng Manufacturing executive director Pat Stander tells Mining Weekly that the... →

PAT STANDER Aveng Manufacturing DFC bought RF Technologies, a US-based pinch-valve manufacturer with an established global presence, in May 2010

Range receives immediate positive response

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Engineering solutions provider Bearing Man Group (BMG) states that its Fluid Power division’s fluid power valves (FPV) range has received a positive market response since being introduced in late September, owing to the valves’ optimal performance efficiencies. “BMG’s Fluid Power division is also... →

FLUID POWER DIVISION Bearing Man Group’s Fluid Power division is in the final stages of concluding a potentially lucrative deal to supply the fluid power valves range to various projects in Africa

R80m valves project completed for local water board

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Local valves manufacturer Ainsworth Engineering completed an R80-million delivery of 393 gate and multidoor reflux valves to a local water board to bolster and upgrade its stock of valves for future projects, Ainsworth Engineering director Colleen Moir tells Engineering News. “The delivery of... →

WEDGE GATE VALVE The manufacturing of 393 valves for a water board took Ainsworth Engineering about two years to complete

Double-offset butterfly valves supplied to R4.5-billion project

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Water treatment and distribution solutions provider VAG-Valves South Africa is supplying several of its VAG EKN butterfly valves to the R4.5-billion Olifants River Water Resources Development Project Phase 2 (ORWRDP-2), in Polokwane, Limpopo, for use as isolation valves on the project’s bulk... →

VAG EKN BUTTERFLY VALVE VAG-Valves South Africa will complete the delivery of the VAG EKN butterfly valves to the R4.5-billion Olifants River Water Resources Development Project Phase 2 by the end of this mont

Valves industry under the pump – Vamcosa

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 The South African valve manufacturing industry is in dire straits, as imports continue to flood the country, and as a result the rapid implementation of valves designation for all State-owned enterprises (SOEs) is required to save the industry, Valve and Actuator Manufacturers Cluster of South... →

INDUSTRY DECLINE In 1994, the local valves industry employed about 3 800 people; however the industry currently employs fewer than 800 people

Valve and Actuator Manufacturers Cluster of South Africa champion Gregory Walker discusses the state of South Africa’s valve manufacturing industry. Camerawork: Duane Daws. Editing: Shane Williams

Quality components for long-term cost savings

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Far too much maintenance is being done at South African mines, which, in turn, has a negative effect on productivity in an already volatile sector,polyurethane moulding company Urethane Moulded Products (UMP) MD Trevor Carolin tells Mining Weekly. He points out that UMP and valve manufacturer... →

QUALITY FOCUS NEEDED The local trend of buying the cheapest plant components is having devastating long-term financial affects with regard to operational downtime

SA air-valves used on several major pipelines in Southern Africa

By: Ilan Solomons 8th November 2013 Valve and pipe designer and manufacturer Rexus Trading’s AirFlo Variable Orifice air-valves are being used on several major pipelines in South Africa and in Southern Africa, says Rexus Trading MD Allistair Balutto. “Ninety-six DN300 AirFlo air-valves are in use on a South African water board’s... →

PROUDLY SA The AirFlo Variable Orifice air-valves range is 100% locally manufactured

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