Subject:  Valves World Market News

Here is the table of contents for the month of December in the Updates to Valves: World Markets.  The updates reflect only some of the new additions.  The analysis and revenues are constantly revised.  For more information, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/water.html#N028

VALVE MARKET
UPDATE
December 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

McIlvaine Company Makes Changes to Industry Analysis Sections in Industrial Valve Market Report

ACQUISITIONS

• Watts Water Acquires Changsha Valve Works
• AVK Buys PCC EuroValve B.V.
• Cooper Cameron Closes on Dresser Valve On/Off Businesses
• Watts Water Technologies Buys FEBCO, Polyjet and Mueller Steam from SPX

FINANCE

• Cooper Cameron Sets Record Sales Revenue in Third Quarter
• Crane Reports Sales Increase of 9 Percent in Third Quarter
• Flowserve About to Release 2004 10-K
• Dresser Files 2004 10-K
• ITT Industries’ Third Quarter EPS Up 17 Percent
• Emerson’s Sales up 13 Percent for 2005 Year
• Circor Earnings Rise 29 Percent in Third Quarter

PEOPLE

• Alfa Laval Appoints New President
• SPX Appoints Thomas Riordan as COO
• CCI Appoints Ian Whiting as New President

PROJECTS

• Poyam Valves Awarded Contract for Sabine Pas LNG Projects
• Rotork Builds Largest Actuator
• Poyam Valves to Supply Valves for Mexican LNG Plant
• Weir Supplies Valves to Nebraska and Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Plants
• Poyam Valves Awarded Contract for LNG Tankers
• Rotork Gets Contract for China LNG Receiving Terminal
• Turflo Rona Sells Valves to Chinese Petrochemical Plant

NEW PRODUCTS

• Spirex and Glycon Enters Agreement on Quick Shut-Off Valve
• New Ball Valves Launched by Truflo Rona
• Bray Controls Designs Blow-out Proof Stem Butterfly Valves
• Danfoss Flomatic Introduces Extended Automatic Control Valve

OIL & GAS

POWER

REFINERIES

SEMICONDUCTOR, FLAT PANEL, DISK DRIVE AND OTHER ELECTRONICS

WORLD WATER AND WASTEWATER DESALINATION

 

Municipal: U.S.

Cal Am to be sold

Voters reject Cal Am Water buyout idea

Cal Am’s desal project delayed

Santa Cruz council gives unanimous approval to desalination

Desalinization step taken in New Hampshire

Water board delays consideration of pipeline in favor of desal

State water development board approves South Texas desalination project

Municipal: Overseas

Desalination trial ahead of plant in NSW

Sewage recycled to solve crisis in Perth

Early desalination plant using wave energy results encouraging

Desalination plant to cost $1.3bn

Desalination project installed at Kavaratti

Saudi Arabia bolsters for an economic rally

Saudi Arabia May Sell Desalination Plants to Meet Water Demand

Riyad Bank to Help Shuaiba Raise SR9.375 Billion

SR9 Billion Contract for Shuaiba-3 Plant Signed

Junta believes the Costa del Sol needs six new desalination plants

Mining

Murray water in pipeline for BHP

Food/Beverage

New technology uses RO to cut down tanker trips

NZ winery launches alcohol-free wine range

Research

UMass Amherst wins grant for desalination plant study

Preliminary Trials Completed Using VSEP Vibratory Membrane Filtration

Business News

FRP Seawater Reverse Osmosis Systems

GE to open Technology Center at Qatar Science & Technology Park

U.S. MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER PROJECTS

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