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For an associated project, Rotork Fluid System has won the order for HPG (high performance gas) actuators to operate giant pipeline ball valves. Ten double-acting actuators will operate 56" (1,42 m) pipeline ball valves, pressure rated at ANSI Class 600 and 900. The actuators are being built and packaged at Fluid Systems new Italian factory.
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