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Vale Engineering and corrosive materials all the way to foodstuffs. We have seen considerable success in the rail market in America.
“ We’ ve got one particular product that goes on the rail cars that carry crude oil in America. In the USA, they produce a lot of their oil from fracking. They’ re now producing enough oil to be self-sufficient. In fact, they’ re even exporting some oil now. The problem with fracking is that sites can be very small in size and scattered around, so they’ re unable to justify running a pipeline. As a consequence, they move it all in rail cars and we produce the safety valves for those transportation systems.
“ We have developed a very strong presence in the market, and now we are progressing into other product areas, including hazardous materials, which are also transported by rail: for example, hazardous chlorine and hydrogen fluoride. We’ ve developed a range of valves for these materials and recently began supplying the first orders to the market. These are very expensive valves. They’ re made from a sophisticated material known as Hastelloy, which is an immensely compatible metal. It’ s like stainless steel but a lot more expensive and a lot more resistant to corrosion and other dangerous chemicals. We have seen
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