Cosipa to instal vacuum degasser
Brazilian steelmaker Usiminas has awarded Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau (VAI) a contract for the erection of a vacuum degassing plant at the Cosipa, São Paulo, steelworks.
Sanitary demountable rotary valves
Nu-Con Equipment (Chanhassen, Minnesota, USA) has introduced its Sanitary Demountable Rotor Valves for use in dairy, food, pharmaceutical, and chemical applications, either powder or granular.
Alstom to supply coal-fired boilers to USA
Alstom has been awarded a contract worth more than EUR 142 million by East Kentucky Power Cooperative Inc. (EKPC) to design, supply and build a 268mw, coal-fired circulating fluid bed (CFB) boiler at the utility's H.L. Spurlock Power Station near Maysville, Kentucky, USA.
Gas-powered station wins go-ahead
The Australian state of Victoria is to get another power station after the Environmental Protection Authority gave the green light for the first of two stages of a gas-fired power station to be built at Laverton North by Singapore Power.
Extreme temperature sensors
A new range of thin-film technology pressure sensors can handle from –40 to 200C while using standard electronics to keep the price more conventional.