Q: Are the nickel-copper alloys (such as UNS N04400) acceptable for use in accordance with the NACE sour service standards?
October 2, 2012
A report from the VMA Market Outlook Workshop, held in August 2012: Attendees at this year’s workshop were buoyed by relatively positive messages from all of the speakers, including Alan Beaulieu of the Institute for Trend Research and Michael Halloran of Robert W.
September 18, 2012
Like VMA, the Valve Repair Council is committed to education for those in the valve industry.
September 18, 2012
A report from the VMA Market Outlook Workshop, held in August 2012: In the last few years, Brazil has been an important and growing market for manufacturers.
September 11, 2012
Sub-arctic climates experience temperatures from 100° F (38° C) in the summer to –60° F (–51° C) in the winter (Figure 1). While there is nothing spectacular about the high end of the range, the low end impacts the functionality of pneumatic actuators.
September 10, 2012
Soft goods such as rings, gaskets, bushings, washers, seals and packing sets are widely used in valves and actuators.
September 4, 2012
A report from the VMA Market Outlook Workshop, held in August 2012: John Spears of Spears & Associates works with domestic and international petroleum industry equipment and service firms, financial institutions and government entities, making him uniquely qualified to track market size and share for over 30 segments of the petroleum industry.
August 28, 2012
When control valve professionals talk about "control valve sizing," they really mean the entire process of selecting the valve that will do the best job of controlling the process.
August 16, 2012
To coincide with the release of the latest edition of the North American Catalog of Valves—first published in 1984—we spoke with several U.S. and Canadian companies about how globalization has changed the way they do business.
July 30, 2012
I have worked and taught in organizations for nearly half a century, and for at least half that time, I’ve led sessions on Lean and it its predecessors.
July 16, 2012
As the nation increasingly seeks sources for renewable energy, dams and the thousands of valves they contain will only become more important.
July 16, 2012
Some analysts consider the valve market a hard one to track because there are so many players in the field and the business cycles are so long term.
July 9, 2012
