INDUSTRIAL VALVE MARKET REPORT

UPDATE

August, 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Gas Industry Analysis

US Shale Drilling Delayed by Lack of Equipment

GWC Also Announces Increase in Shale Drilling in South America

Acquisition

National Oilwell Varco Buys Robbins & Myers

Victaulic Buys MTS Valves’ Desalination Valve Business

New Facilities

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Builds New Plant in China

Emerson Combining Some Texas Plants

Finance

GE to Split Energy Business into Three Standalone Entities

KSB’s Half Year Sales Increase by 13 Percent

Flowserve’s Half Year Sales Up 6.3 Percent

People

Severn Glocon Appoints Mark Breese to Head Leeds Merger into Company

Tyco Flow Control President Leaving to Join Harsco

Check-All Valve’s President Retires

Projects

Rotork Awarded Contract to Actuate Velan Valves for Chinese Nuclear Power Plant

GWC Delivers Valves to CO₂ Project

Darvico Delivers Valves to Saudi Arabian Refinery

Pibiviesse Valves Put in South African Ethylene Unit

Rotork Actuators Provided in Australian Polymer Plant

Severn Glocon Finishes Severe Service Valves in Australian Offshore Project

New Products

Alfa Laval Brings Out Actuator for LKB Butterfly Valve

Rotork GO Actuators Upgraded

GF Piping Introduces New Metering Ball Valve

AUMA Announces SIL Advancement

WORLD WATER AND WASTEWATER DESALINATION

INDUSTRY NEWS

Toray wins Ras Al Khaimah Desal Contract

AEROMIX to Develop Desalination Plant in Karachi

Coca-Cola Lauded for its Global Water Recovery System

Aquatech Awarded Contract to Install Wastewater Recycle and Zero Liquid Discharge System in China

NEW PLANT CONSTRUCTION NEWS

GCC Projected to Invest Over US$100 Billion in Water Projects by 2016

Metito Lands Bechtel SWRO Desalination in Australia

Amiad Wins $1.6 7 Million Contract for Significant Israeli Desalination Project

Five Firms in Frame for Oman Water Project

Veolia Supplies RO Desalination to Mauritania Mine

Solar Firm Constructing System in Gila Bend

TECHNOLOGY/NEW PRODUCT NEWS

GE Introduces Major Energy Efficiency Breakthrough for Desalination Plants

Research Consider Graphene as a Cure for Desalination Woes

Wave Energy for Perth Southern Desalination Plant

Many projects are detailed in monthly updates under Industry Analysis in this Report’s Chapters.

CHEMICALS
ETHANOL
FOOD & BEVERAGE
METALWORKING
MINING
OIL & GAS
OTHER ELECTRONICS
PHARMACEUTICAL / BIOTECH
PULP & PAPER
REFINERIES
SEMICONDUCTOR