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.

Val-Matic’s Solution for Difficult Applications

Val-Matic’s QuadroSphere Ball Valve features a unique abrasion resistant ball design, and solves the most difficult application problems.

The DFT® Wafer Check Valves Halt Water Hammer

DFT’s Model ALC® and WLC® Wafer Style Check Valves are designed to prevent water hammer and are the solution to double door/butterfly check valves problems.

Ten Easy Process Improvement Wins

Top 10 Low Hanging Fruits to Pick for Process Improvement Before or After a Lean Audit. This is a quick list to help any plant manager, maintenance supervisor, process engineer, or mechanical team shine.

How Should You Mitigate These Hose Hazards?

Hoses can be a significant hazard in processing plants, industrial facilities, and in hydraulic applications. They must be properly maintained, stored, and inspected to mitigate the risk of operator injury.

Temporary Valve Replacement

Industrial plants are complex structures. Subtle changes in a raw material or a distracted employee adjusting a control slightly over its setting can have a cascading effect leading to failure.

Wika Launches New Check Valve

The new model CV check valve from Wika features a sealing system with a self-centering piston, which prevents backflow of liquid and gaseous media.

Emerson Releases New Full-Bore Ball Control Valve

Emerson recently debuted the Fisher V280 full-bore trunnion-mounted ball control valve for severe and specialty pressure, flow and process control applications.

Asset Integrity Management System: Galling in Equipment

As quoted by industry, galling is a wear process which occurs when two metal surfaces contact each other during load and are placed in motion against each other causing friction.

Emerson Introduces New Pneumatic Valve System

Emerson has introduced a wireless automatic recovery module (ARM) for its AVENTICS™ G3 electronic fieldbus platform that makes it easy for technicians to perform pneumatic valve system commissioning and diagnostics from a mobile phone, tablet or laptop computer.The new wireless ARM module and AVENTICS G3 fieldbus platform are ideal for pneumatic valve system applications in the automotive, food and beverage, tire, packaging and metalworking industries.The wireless ARM module provides easy access to the AVENTICS G3 fieldbus platform’s diagnostic and commissioning capabilities via an internal Wi-Fi access point and mobile website.

How is Your Company Helping Hose Operators?

As we approach the Hose + Coupling World Americas Coference & Expo 2020, our team wants to make sure that you are taking the opportunity to showcase your company’s newest services, products, and technology aimed to help increase the safety and efficiency of hoses, couplings and hose assemblies.