Rotork News

Rotork retrofit improves valve actuation efficiency at Amsterdam water treatment plant

Rotork modulating electric valve actuators have been installed in an efficiency upgrade project at a large water treatment works serving the Dutch capital city of Amsterdam.

Rotork valve actuation supports innovative offshore wind farm technology

An offshore platform in the North Sea that is the first of its type to serve a power generating wind farm is home to fifty Rotork IQTPro intelligent electric valve actuators.

Rotork CVA specified for flow control duty on gas turbine pre-heater plants

Rotork’s innovative CVA electric actuator has been specified for critical valve control duty on high temperature gas turbine pre-heater equipment supplied to the power generation industry. The application demands unrestricted modulation of a three-way valve to control the pre-heated temperature of fuel gas for electricity generating turbines.

Rotork sponsors Team GB Judo athlete

Rotork is proud to support Bath’s local community and is delighted to sponsor a former Rotork placement student in his bid to make it to the Olympics.

K-Tork retrofit assists environmental recycling

K-Tork International has successfully completed a $1.9M retrofit contract for the supply and installation of valve actuators at the Las Vegas Water & Pollution Control facility.

Rotork voted in Top 3 for Britain\'s Most Admired Companies

Rotork, the market leading actuator manufacturer and flow control company, has won four prestigious awards at Britain’s Most Admired Companies 2011 awards ceremony.

Rotork acquires Prokits Ltd

Rotork is pleased to announce the acquisition of Prokits Ltd, a designer and manufacturer of valve adaptor kits and accessories for the valve industry, based in Mansfield, UK. Rotork has acquired all the share capital of Prokits.

Rotork acquires Fairchild Industrial Products Company

Rotork is pleased to announce the acquisition of Fairchild Industrial Products Company, a manufacturer of high-precision pneumatic controls and power transmission products based in North Carolina, USA.

Rotork works 24 hours-a-day to assist repair of fire damage at refinery

The Singapore office and workshops of flow control specialist Rotork are working 24 hours-a-day to assist Shell in its recovery efforts after a fire at its Pulau Bukom manufacturing site.

Type K damper drives – five years arduous service, no maintenance and no breakdowns

Rotork’s recent acquisition, K-Tork International, Inc., has supplied Ash Hopper (AH Series) damper drives to the Entergy Corporation’s White Bluff Generating Station in Redfield, Arkansas to replace cylinder actuators that were proving to be unreliable.

Rotork scoops top prize at Bath Business Awards

Rotork, established leader in flow control, is pleased to announce winning the top prize at Bath Business Awards on 29th September 2011. Rotork walked away with the main award and was named Business of the Year at the Awards ceremony.

Asset management for actuated valves in the 21st Century

The key benefit of effective asset management for the actuated valve end user is an economic one. The implementation of preventative maintenance as the main activity in the asset management programme quickly translates into cost savings for the plant operator. This and many other benefits are facilitated and enhanced by the increased functionality inherent in modern intelligent electric valve actuation technologies.

New Sales Director for Rotork Controls Ltd

Rotork is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Sales Director, Tim Bessex.

Actuation upgrade improves power station combustion efficiency

Rotork electric modulating actuators have been installed in an upgrade at the RWE npower Fawley Power Station in southern England. Built in the late 1960s, the oil-fired station is capable of supplying the National Grid with 1000 megawatts of power to balance supply and demand at times of peak usage. It is therefore essential that the station can respond to the National Grid demands with speed and flexibility.

Rotork actuates sub-sea safety valve installations at Egyptian gas field

Rotork Fluid Systems has supplied the specialised hydraulic actuator package for a second sub-sea safety isolation valve (SSIV) installation on the same offshore gas gathering project off the coast of Egypt.

Rotork acquires K-Tork International Inc.

It is with great pleasure that Rotork Plc announces the purchase of all the share capital of K-Tork International Inc.

Rotork valve actuators at the Olympic Park Energy Centre

Rotork intelligent electric valve actuators have been installed at the London Olympic Park Energy Centre, a combined cooling, heating and power plant incorporating a biomass boiler fuelled by sustainable wood pulp and natural gas.

Rotork is ‘one-stop actuation shop’ for storage tank expansion project

Rotork has demonstrated its ability as a one-stop shop for valve actuation products and services for an oil storage tank expansion project in Holland. Rotork’s activities have encompassed the supply of intelligent electric actuators for isolating, modulating and failsafe valves, digital control systems, valve gearboxes, valve adaptation, workshop motorisation, on-site retrofitting and commissioning.

Failsafe duty for Rotork CVA guards against accidental oil spillages

Rotork’s innovative CVA electric control valve actuator is providing a critical failsafe function on packaged oil-water separator (dewatering) units supplied to a refinery in Antwerp.

Acquisition of long-standing agent creates Rotork Norway

Rotork is pleased to announce the acquisition of Valco Valves and Automation AS, its long-standing sales and service agent in Norway.

Rotork valve actuators in ‘landmark’ waste water treatment project

Rotork IQPro intelligent electric valve actuation technology will assist the operation of the largest and most advanced waste water treatment, water reuse and sludge treatment plant in the Middle East.

Rotork delivers all-electric isolating and control valve actuation for gas plants

Rotork actuators are fulfilling the all-electric specification for valve control on new gas dehydration units constructed at seven sites in the Transylvanian region of Romania. The new plants have been built for Romgaz, the largest natural gas producer in Romania, responsible for the production of around 40% of the country’s consumption. Dehydration plants use triethylene glycol to remove the water from natural gas in order to prevent downstream processing problems such as freezing, corrosion and the formation of hydrates.

Croatian water treatment plant chooses Rotork valve actuators

Rotork RC200 series pneumatic actuators have been installed for valve control and operation in a new water treatment plant at the Sisak Power Plant, south of Zagreb in Croatia.

Nuclear power contract for Rotork intelligent valve actuators

Rotork has been awarded a major contract for the supply of electric valve actuators for the Hong Yan River and Ningde Nuclear Power Station project in China.

Power station selects Rotork CVA for demanding control valve duty

A power station in New Hampshire which burns both natural gas and low sulphur fuel oil has installed a Rotork CVA electric control valve actuator to help reduce maintenance costs and improve accuracy in a demanding outdoor fuel oil control application.