Weir Power & Industrial has recently been awarded a multi-million dollar order for the supply of TRICENTRIC® butterfly valves from the State Nuclear Power Engineering Company (SNPEC) in China. The valves will be installed on the nuclear island of the Sanmen unit 2 and Haiyang unit 2 nuclear power plants in China. The 1,100MW units, which are of a Westinghouse AP1000 design, are currently under construction, with commissioning scheduled for 2013 and 2014.
The TRICENTRIC triple offset butterfly valves are duplicates of those supplied through Westinghouse for Sanmen unit 1 and Haiyang unit 1, and will be manufactured at the new nuclear valve the facility in Ipswich, Massachusetts, US, which Weir has built to meet the growth demands from the nuclear renaissance.
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