Innovations and solutions

Los Angeles-based master distributor Industrial Valco (IV) recently announced the purchase of Beric Valves, a Houston-based producer of cast and forged steel gate, globe, check and ball valves, for the United States and its territories.

Rotolok strives to meet industry and customer requirements. Over the past few years, there has been an ever-increasing demand for large Rotary Valves and to accommodate this, the company has expanded their standard cast equipment range to include their 30" and 36" Rotary Valves.

One of ODE Valve Canada’s most recent developments is the 21IZ1 series of angle seat valves. This line consists of 2/2-way normally closed, normally open and double-acting valves with flow direction above and below the seat, including an optimized design to lessen water hammer effect.

Rotork recently provided electric IQ actuators with IB gearboxes for use on top of sluice gates, ready to close them during periods of excessive rainfall and flooding to protect a local community in Texas.Rotork’s IB gearboxes can be used on sluice gates and for demanding motorized applications.

Valtorc USA offers a wide variety of automated knife gate valves as well as spring return cylinders in 316SS, carbon steel Epoxy ends, and can work with knife gate valves up to 20".

In practice, control valves leak, even when fully closed. Ignorance of valve trim leakage definitions has led to many misunderstandings throughout industry: Control valves being misidentified as requiring tight shutoff (TSO); TSO valves (or control valves) requested when excessive or inappropriate for the application; Vendors highlighting their valve having “tight shutoff” capabilities without mentioning crucial testing details.

Warrington Township in Pennsylvania, US, is home to 25,000 residents and over 375 businesses. The township’s water comes from seven wells and five interconnections from another water supply district.

Rotork recently launched their IQT Shutdown Battery to provide further operational flexibility to the IQT3 range of part-turn 1-phase, 3-phase and DC electric actuators with the addition of a new integral battery option that provides fail-to-position functionality in explosionproof applications.

Valtorc’s fire safe, fusible link valves are available in ball valves and butterfly valves for maximum configuration. Fusible link valves are available in sizes from 1/4" - 4" (for ball valve series) and 3" - 24" for our butterfly valve series.

The DSVP10 from Deltrol Controls is the company’s biggest liquid dispensing valve. It is a 2-way, direct acting solenoid valve that can be used to dispense low pressure water from tanks.