VALVE WORLD MARKET
UPDATE
February 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acquisition
Flomatic Sold to Boshart Industries
United Metallurgical Company Buys Large Russian Valve Plant
New Facilities
Circor Opens New Indian Factory
Allagash Buys Former Portland Valve Plant
Cashco Opens New German Facility
Joint Venture
Cameron and CNPC Establish Joint Venture to Make Pipeline Valves for China
KSB Sales Up in 2012
FMC Technologies’ Sales Up 23 Percent for Fourth Quarter 2012
Pentair’s Sales in Fourth Quarter Increased 103 Percent
Oliver Valves Achieve Record Sales in 2012
Emerson’s Sales in First Quarter Increased 5 Percent
Cameron’s Revenue for 2012 Up 22 Percent
Curtiss-Wright’s Sales Increased 4 Percent for 2012 Year
Projects
Bernard Controls Supplies Actuators to Pakistani Power Plant
Metso Wins Valve Contract for Chinese Clean Coal Technology Plant
SIPOS Actuators in Use in Columbian Water Plant
Ampo Poyam Valve Signs Enterprise Framework Agreement with Shell
Auma Actuators Chosen for Saudi Oil Terminal
Rotork Skilmatic Actuator Supplied to Australian Coal Mine
Emerson Upgrades Russian Power Plant
New Products
New Line of Industrial Grade PL Series Linear Actuators Engineered for Critical Large Pressure Control Applications
Auma Brings Out New Part-Turn Actuator
WORLD WATER AND WASTEWATER DESALINATION
INDUSTRY NEWS
Saudia Arabia to Build Biggest Desalination Plant: SPA
NanoH2O Picks Up Membrane Order for Desalination Plant in Israel
GE Technology for Australian DeSal Plant
Desalination Seen Booming at 15 Percent a Year as World Water Dries Up
Qatar to Spend $22 Billion on Water and Power over Next 8 Years
NEW PLANT CONSTRUCTION NEWS
Standard Bank Finances Ghana’s $126 Million Desalination Plant
New DeSalination Plant Commissioned
Chennai gets Second Desalination Plant
Local Facilities Seek Efficient Ways to Manage, Provide Water
Solon Completes Solar Work on Water Treatment Plant in Arizona
TECHNOLOGY/NEW PRODUCT NEWS
Liquidity Corporation to Launch Revolutionary Water Purification Technology Products
Removing Pharmaceuticals from Wastewater
2 MW PRO Plant Announced
Many projects are detailed in monthly updates under Industry Analysis in the Report’s Chapters.
CHEMICALS
ETHANOL
FOOD & BEVERAGE
METALWORKING
MINING
OIL & GAS
OTHER ELECTRONICS
PHARMACEUTICAL / BIOTECH
PULP & PAPER
REFINERIES
SEMICONDUCTOR