Houston, TX, January, 2022– United Valve announces the acquisition of the assets of Global Service & Repair (GSR) of Sulphur, LA. GSR was a provider of repair and modification services on rising/rotating metallic plug valves and other tapered plug valve … Continue reading
United Valve announces the acquisition of the assets of Global Service & Repair (GSR) of Sulphur, LA
United Valve announces agreement with HP Valves
HP Valves and United Valve have formally “hand-shaked” their agreement for Service Representation as well as the local inventory of spare-parts during their meeting in Houston (TX). The actual agreement was signed by both companies in fall 2017. With this … Continue reading
Flowserve Announces Authorized Edward(TM) Valve Repair and Service Agreement with United Valve
Flowserve Announces Authorized Edward(TM) Valve Repair and Service Agreement with United Valve of Houston, Texas By GlobeNewswire, July 16, 2015, 04:23:00 PM EDT DALLAS, July 16, 2015 – Flowserve Corporation (NYSE:FLS), a leading provider of flow control products and services … Continue reading
Criteria for Evaluating Industrial Valve Repair and Valve Modification Companies
Total valve replacement can be expensive and time-consuming. In-field industrial valve repair and modification resumes operations in the shortest time and at the lowest expense. The following seven criteria are essential to choosing an industrial valve repair company that will … Continue reading
New Valve Modification Standard Published
The manufacturer’s Standardization Society (MSS) has recently published Standard Practice SP-141, “Multi-Turn and Check Valve Modifications”, which details standard procedures for the most common new valve modifications. As chairman of MSS Committee 310, which created the document, I am pleased with … Continue reading
Valve Standards in The Petrochemical & Refining Industry
Originally published in the summer 1996 issue of Valve Magazine Valves in petrochemical and refining installations are subject to numerous standards and specifications issued by many supporting organizations. Today’s valve standards are dynamic documents that reflect sound engineering practice, changes in … Continue reading
Industrial Valve Repair in the 21st Century
Once upon a time, most large refineries and chemical plants had their own valve shops, complete with a full compliment of experienced valve repair technicians. These service departments took care of most of the plants repair needs, although oftentimes valves … Continue reading
Valve Owner’s Survival Kit
It’s a jungle out there, so the saying goes. Unfortunately, that jungle extends to and includes your work environment. And if you are responsible for some part of a chemical processing facility, the vines and beasts of that jungle wrap … Continue reading
Valve Modification
In a perfect world of valve supply and demand, an end-user would be able to purchase any combination of valve configurations from the distributor with only a few days notice. The commonly-stocked ‘standard trim’ valves would share shelf space with … Continue reading
Industrial Valve Repair, a Changing & Challenging Business
Who Moved my Cheese? The heck with who moved my cheese, who moved my valve repair customers! Those of us in the industrial valve repair business can certainly relate to Dr. Spencer Johnson’s book, “Who Moved My Cheese”, which deals … Continue reading