Wastewater systems present many challenges to pumps and valves because the flow can contain grit, solids and debris, depending where in the process the equipment is located.
September 11, 2019
Torque is a force that causes an object to rotate, while tension is a force that causes an object to stretch or elongate.
September 5, 2019
Leak testing is performed for four basic reasons, says John McLaren, product manager, leak detection at Agilent Technologies, Inc.
August 28, 2019
The most common reason coatings don’t do what they are tasked with doing is surface preparation.
August 27, 2019
Members attending the VMA Market Outlook Workshop, August 8-9 in San Diego, received good news and bad news about markets important to the valve industry, as well as recent overall economic conditions domestic and worldwide.
August 14, 2019
Most people in industry today recognize that lean manufacturing helps manufacturers and plants improve efficiency by eliminating waste in the production process.
August 13, 2019
Herbert William Heinrich, author of Industrial Accident Prevention, A Scientific Approach, devised a way of understanding the relationship between unsafe acts and workplace injuries.
August 6, 2019
A control valve can be used to control pressure, pressure drop, flow and temperature in any system where there is a fluid flowing through a pipe that needs to be controlled.
July 30, 2019
We continue the series written by John Ballun, President and CEO of Val-Matic Valve and Manufacturing Corp., and released in 2016 as a book dedicated to the mentors that saved him and others from making costly mistakes in the field.
July 24, 2019
The old saying in the valve service industry is “price, quality and delivery—you can pick any two.” That saying is still true 175 years after the first steam valves quit working and needed repair.
July 19, 2019
Though 2018 represented a strong year of revenue growth in most sectors, the second half of 2019 will likely show a downshift.
July 17, 2019
If there is one thing that those involved in developing and running the Valve Basics program have come to understand, it’s that the term “basics” means different things to different people.
July 16, 2019
