24 MARCH 2023 WorldWide Drilling Resource® Industry Announcements Flomatic® Valves announced a new self-service education initiative, hosted on Flomatic’s website, which provides stakeholders updated digital training materials, technical resources, industry news, opportunities, and best practices to help drive the sustainable digital transformation within the water and wastewater industry. The ‘Water Hub Knowledge Center’ is a centralized digital tool providing an ongoing vital resource for those looking to expand their knowledge about a wide range of topics focused on the importance of manufacturing and engineering solutions. Within the tool, users can access frequently asked questions, technical articles, blog posts, industry news, among other topics to help foster collaboration and continued learning for a wide range of audiences. FORCIT Group and Enaex have established a joint venture to meet the increasing market demand for software and products for sustainable mining operations. The joint venture brings Enaex as a partner in FORCIT Group’s Portuguese subsidiary O-Pitblast, specialized in digital mining software and products, allowing Enaex and FORCIT Group to pool resources and capabilities to enhance digital mining solutions. FORCIT Group is a Finnish company with a legacy back to 1893, consisting of three business areas: FORCIT Explosives for civil explosives and related services; FORCIT Consulting offering a wide range of expertise, services, and training for construction and excavation; and FORCIT Defence, specialized in high-class insensitive munitions-based defense systems for global markets. Enaex is a leading rock fragmentation company founded in 1920, in addition to producing and marketing high explosives and blasting agents, Enaex develops and innovates key products and technologies for the main mining regions. O-Pitblast was created in 2016, with the intent of providing leading technology for the world's mining market and is a consolidated and growing company in mining engineering technology research and development. O-Pitblast offers a wide range of software such as O-PitSurface to optimize excavation, drilling, and blasting, O-PitDev to ensure accurate and fast borehole diagnostics, and O-PitAnalytics enabling efficient control and management of mining operations. ”This is a natural step in our growth strategy where digitalization is a key component. Partnering with Enaex will increase resources to further develop the O-Pitblast solutions. It will also ensure more diverse insight and knowledge to drive the development forward with the target of providing leading technology for the world's mining market,” said FORCIT Group CEO Joakim Westerlund. Ace Oil Tools has become Ace Well Technology. The move reflects the company’s continued commitment toward the use of its technology across the entire spectrum of the energy industry. With its origins in gas and oil, Ace Well Technology’s expertise goes beyond hydrocarbons and reaches into the geothermal and CCS (carbon capture and storage) industries. The new name was selected to better reflect the broader applications of the product portfolio, while retaining strong links to the company’s history. Ace Well Technology is best known for the Ace Rachet Collar (ARC), a superior method for attaching tools and accessories to the casing or completion string during well construction and completion. The unique locking mechanism of the ARC is the first 90,000-pound plus rated stop collar on the market. Additional products in the company’s portfolio include the Ace Control Line Clamp, the Ace Drilling Centralizer, and the Ace Splice Clamp. Hyundai Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment is now DEVELON. Meaning develop and onwards, the name DEVELON represents the company’s new beginning and challenging spirit. The company has a long history of developing products and solutions for building infrastructure, providing products and solutions exceeding the expectations of the industry and customers. Moving forward, DEVELON plans to introduce more innovative products and solutions.
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