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
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
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
The Gate Valve’s Long History
The ubiquitous gate valve has a long history of serving the flow control industry in the United States. From its humble beginnings during the middle of the 19th century, to its universal usage today, the gate valve has soldiered on … Continue reading
The Ever-Popular Gate Valve
This low-tech valve may not have changed much in the last 100 years, but the gate valve plays a major role in virtually every refinery, chemical plant and industrial facility in the world. The most popular style of valve in … Continue reading
Why Valve Qualification Programs?
As the valve world continues to turn and tilt its production towards new countries and their untested manufacturing plants, the potential backlash is a rise in quality issues. In decades past, when bottom-dollar pricing was not the chief procurement driver, … Continue reading
Testing, Testing: Today’s Valve Standards
THE INCREASE IN GLOBALLY SOURCED PRODUCTS AND MUCH-REDUCED DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING HAS CAUSED EVERYONE IN THE VALVE SUPPLY CHAIN TO REQUEST AND REQUIRE MORE TESTING. HERE’S A LOOK AT SOME OF THE MOST COMMON VALVE TESTING STANDARDS IN USE TODAY. “Testing, … Continue reading
