Anyone who plans, builds or operates water distribution systems attachs great importance to efficiency as well as the reliability of system components.
June 24, 2014
The VMA’s recent Technical Seminar focused in large part on fugitive emissions, and with good reason.
June 17, 2014
In 1989, the member companies of the Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA) saw a need to promote both safety and quality in valve and actuator repair.
June 9, 2014
Last year, domestic energy production crossed an important milestone when oil production surpassed crude imports for the first time in two decades.
May 28, 2014
Valve professionals involved in the oil and gas industry were in abundance at this year’s record-breaking Offshore Technology Conference May 5-8 in Houston.
May 28, 2014
In 1989, VMA formed the VRC to create a way for facilities that have good quality control procedures, use quality parts and have access to OEM specifications a way to band together to reach common goals.
May 22, 2014
The fractionation process receives the compressed cracked gas for separation into various products at specified quality levels.
May 19, 2014
The term “double block-and-bleed (DBB)” carries a lot of misconception when it’s used to describe valve functionality.
May 13, 2014
The EPA has been reducing the allowable fugitive emissions on valves in the last few years.
April 28, 2014
In many engineering sectors, application environments for polymer-based materials are expanding into ever higher temperatures, differential pressures and increased corrosive chemical attack.
April 17, 2014
The next time you‘re stopped at a crossing waiting for a mile-long train you think will never pass, take a good look at how many of those cars are tank cars.
April 17, 2014
Giant livestock farms, which can house thousands of pigs, chickens or cows, produce vast amounts of manure—they can generate the waste equivalent of a small city.
April 12, 2014
