Tag: valve

Power generation is a major market for valves, accounting for 13% of global industrial valve sales. As the world continues to build electric generating capacity, it is also accelerating toward a lower-carbon economy, with the power sector playing a significant role in successfully achieving that objective. This article reviews the trends in the global power market and considers their impact on future valve sales. By Matjaž Matošec – Research Manager, Resolute Research

A small company president’s role involves much more than sitting in a corner office. Jody Millsap gets his hands dirty. “My personality is not that I can be content sitting in an office,” he said. “I like to interact with the customers, help with sales calls and getting my hands on the equipment. President is just a title. You have to be a jack of all trades. I like to be out doing stuff and staying busy.” By Michelle Segrest - Contributing Editor

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, the worldwide manufacturer and supplier of hose fittings and accessories, has launched its new overfill prevention system that protects against the risk of overfilling when transferring liquids, or during automated or unattended tank filling.

Valve World Americas recently met Mr. Tokujiro Shoji, Principal Piping Engineer, JGC Corporation to hear about the company's latest initiatives to eliminate valve problems.

Valve World Americas is hosting a Valve Essentials Course which will take place on December 5th, 2017 in the Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria in Houston, Texas.

Saint-Gobain Seals, Saint-Gobain Seals, a leader in designing and manufacturing polymer critical parts that protect core systems in extreme conditions, has developed a technical engineering manual that provides selection guidelines for polymer lip seals in oil and gas API 6D isolation valves for a major United States oil and gas end user customer.

Founded in 1949 in Israel, Habonim quickly proved it was a front-runner in providing advanced solutions to complex applications in a broad range of industries.

Valve operation specialist Sofis, whose US offices are located in Kentucky and Houston, recently installed a solution to reduce the risk of incorrect valve line-up at Oiltanking Malta.

Safety and the need to avoid an environmental catastrophe led Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, to start repairs in 2016 on a corroded five-mile-long outfall, or pipe, and pump header that release 230 million gallons of treated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean every day.

Losses arising from the fall in production and from the environmental impact make the companies in the field seek projects which are more efficient, particularly with respect to industrial valves, which is a piece of equipment used to manage fluids with the purpose of blocking, guiding or controlling the flow of a certain flowing product in an industrial plant.