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Metso Automation receives the PCN Europe Award 2008
On the Hannover Show, Germany, the PCN Europe Award was presented to Metso Automation, Finland, for their Neles Rotary- Globe control valve. PCN Europe editor Constanze Schmitz handed the award to Vesa Lempinen, the product manager of Neles RotaryGlobe. The product offers a combination of the features of proven linear and rotary valve technologies and attracted the interest of a high number of PCN Europe readers. The flow characteristics of this valve are just like those of a globe valve and its globe-style body design leads to a high pressure- recovery factor. The small-bore control valve is capable of operating cost-effectively up to ASME 1500 pressure class. These factors combined with compact size and the low emission characteristics of a rotary valve create a design, which offers higher standards of performance in flow-control accuracy and reliability, while reducing lifetime costs and maintenance requirements.
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Phoenix Contact acquires Innominate Security Technologies
Roland Bent, Member of the Executive Board, announced in Hanover that Phoenix Contact has acquired Innominate Security Technologies AG. The company specializes in Industrial Security and provides the software for the security devices FL MGuard by Phoenix Contact. The new device family, presented on the Hanover Fair for the first time, offers an industrial firewall / router solution for distributed automation systems. The takeover is with immediate effect. The Berlinbased company currently has around 20 employees. Being a specialist for industrial security technology, Innominate is an important supplier for machine and systems engineering. The competence was acknowledged with the presentation of the “2008 Product Value Leadership of the Year Award”, which took place on the Hanover Fair today. The prize was awarded by the management consultancy Frost & Sullivan, represented by Iain Jawad, to Joachim Fietz, CEO of Innominate, and Roland Bent, Member of the Phoenix Contact Executive Board.
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Fortress Interlocks Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Fortress Interlocks has been awarded the Queen’s award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade. Fortress Interlocks designs and manufactures safety equipment that protects lives in hazardous workplaces and its interlocks work in sequence to ensure employees are safeguarded from dangerous machinery by eliminating the possibility of human error. The Queen’s Award recognises Fortress’ continuous growth in export sales sustained over the last six years and marks a successful double as the company were awarded the Queen’s Award for Innovation at last year's ceremony for its modular mGard range of interlocks. Managing Director of Fortress Mike Golding commented on the award: “Winning the Queen’s Award is a fantastic achievement, particularly following on from our Queen’s Award for Innovation last year. It’s a measure of our achievement, and a return on our self belief that we can be an internationally thriving company. But mostly, it’s a reward for all the Fortress employees who work so hard to make this company successful.”
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Endress+Hauser Flowtec opens calibration facility
"It puts us in a position to satisfy even the highest customer requirements without any compromise whatsoever”, as CEO Dr. Gerhard Jost was pleased to announce at the ceremony marking the opening of the new facility in Reinach, Switzerland. Uniformly high product quality is one of the most important goals set by Endress+Hauser. In meeting these objectives the private family-owned company is prepared to invest significant sums in its production facilities. The calibration facility produces measurements that deviate no more than ±0.015 percent from the reference value. Thirty influencing variables in all were taken into account in order to achieve the excellent performance of this facility. Dr. Hugo Bissig from the Federal Office of Metrology (METAS) in Bern and Mr. August Schaub from the Swiss Accreditation Service (SAS) represented the Swiss accreditation authorities at the opening, and had the opportunity of seeing for themselves just how this reliability is implemented. All Endress+Hauser's flow calibration facilities are accredited by widely different national authorities – including for example SAS, A2LA and CNAS - in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025.
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