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VMA Chair Mark Nahorski: Industry Has Many Pathways to Success

VMA Chair Mark Nahorski: Industry Has Many Pathways to Success

Part of the discussion today about what skills people need to climb to leadership in the industrial world centers on the question: What background makes a good foundation for success?

Thought Leadership

January 29, 2018

Key Distribution Trends for 2018

Key Distribution Trends for 2018

As the new year matures, businesses have their 2018 marketing plans and budgets in place.

General Manufacturing Supply Chain Thought Leadership

January 24, 2018

AIV, LP Acquires Zenith Supply

AIV, LP Acquires Zenith Supply

AIV, LP, a Houston-based global wholesale distributor of valves and actuators for the oil and gas, power generation, chemical, petrochemical, refining, pulp and paper and water treatment industries, has announced that it has acquired Zenith Supply.

Actuators General Manufacturing Supply Chain Water/wastewater

January 22, 2018

Interior Coatings for Waterworks Valves

Interior Coatings for Waterworks Valves

Since the 1990s, two types of epoxy coatings have been commonly specified and used for iron valves in the waterworks industry: fusion-bonded epoxy and liquid epoxy.

General

January 15, 2018

Young Valve Professionals: Logan Moore

Young Valve Professionals: Logan Moore

In 2014, VMA's leadership created the Valve Careers Initiative to inform and educate young people about the valve industry and its lucrative job opportunities.

Thought Leadership

January 8, 2018

VALVE Magazine: Readers’ Choice 2017

VALVE Magazine: Readers’ Choice 2017

Happy New Year to our VALVE Magazine readers and contributors.

General Thought Leadership

January 2, 2018

Passivation and Pickling

Passivation and Pickling

Q: I have customers that ask for their stainless-steel valves to be pickled and I have others who ask for them to be passivated.

General Thought Leadership

December 19, 2017

Educational Opportunities Abound at New VMA Knowledge Forum

Educational Opportunities Abound at New VMA Knowledge Forum

From technical to manufacturing to human resources, attendees of the Valve Industry Knowledge Forum will benefit from the best of three different VMA meetings in one education-packed event open to the industry.

Thought Leadership Workforce Development

December 19, 2017

Offshore Production in a Low Oil-Price Environment

Offshore Production in a Low Oil-Price Environment

Three years ago, The Washington Post published an article called Key facts about the great oil crash of 2014.

General Supply Chain

December 19, 2017

Construction and Mining: Is 2018 The Year for Growth?

Construction and Mining: Is 2018 The Year for Growth?

While there is a degree of optimism in the mining industry that hasn’t been seen for some years, much uncertainty still exists in this sector.

General Manufacturing Thought Leadership

December 12, 2017

Process Instrumentation in Oil and Gas

Process Instrumentation in Oil and Gas

Process instrumentation is an integral part of any process industry because it allows real time measurement and control of process variables such as levels, flow, pressure, temperature, pH and humidity.

General Thought Leadership Valves

December 7, 2017

Will Smart Machines Obsolete Human Resources?

Will Smart Machines Obsolete Human Resources?

Is artificial intelligence (AI) going to take over manufacturing jobs and the jobs of human resources professionals?

Automation General Workforce Development

December 6, 2017

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