Materials & Manufacturing

The design and manufacturing process of valves and actuators is instrumental in attaining and maintaining the desired quality of the product. We cover the foundry and casting sector and also more modern technologies, such as CNC machining and 3D or additive manufacturing.

Butterfly valves for food applications

At the beginning of May 2019, KSB SAS, a member of the KSB Group, launched a new type of liner for its ISORIA butterfly valve type series.

CORTEC named a licensed API 6D manufacturer

CORTEC, a leading manufacturer of high-quality API valves, has been audited and approved as an API 6D licensed manufacturer.

Introducing Alfa Laval ThinkTop® V50 and V70

Alfa Laval has unveiled a refreshed, rethought version of the Alfa Laval ThinkTop®, the company’s best-selling valve sensing and control unit for hygienic valves used in the dairy, food, beverage, brewery and pharmaceutical industries.

BHGE launches Mooney FlowMax HP regulator

BHGE announces the expansion of the Mooney product line to now include ANSI class 300 and 600 rated FlowMax regulators, available with fail-to-close action for positive safe failure mode supporting our customers need to expand to higher ranges of regulation.

Parker Prädifa’s Roll2Seal® for seals bores

The Engineered Materials Group of Parker Hannifin Corporation, the global leader in motion and control technologies, presents Roll2Seal®, an all-new sealing solution for easy and safe sealing of bores in non-pressurized applications.

INEOS to Double Capacity of its New EO-EOD Plant

INEOS Oxide has announced that it is to double the size of its planned Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Ethylene Oxide Derivatives (EOD) facility to be built on the U.

Butterfly Valves Challenges in Solar Thermal Systems

The four offset butterfly valve from the manufacturer QUADAX is used worldwide in solar thermal systems and offers important advantages in terms of reliability and cost efficiency.

Weir Oil & Gas Opens Midland Customer Service Center

Weir Oil & Gas announced the opening of its new 92,000 square-foot Midland Customer Service Center, located at the David Mims Business Park on Interstate 20 in Midland, Texas, with a grand opening ceremony that is taking place from 8:30 to 10:30 a.

Gericke’s new rotary valves

Gericke USA has unveiled its new line of rotary valves, RotaVal. This new line offers a choice of more than 15,000 different configurations to suit powder handling processes, along with custom valves for special situations.

AVA’s triple offset process valves series TOBV

AVA has expanded its warehouse with "Triple Eccentric Process Valves" and it can now offer TOBV in the economic short face to face dimension.