Valve Manufacturing

Trillium Flow Technologies Partnering with East Coast Valve Services

Trillium Flow Technologies has named East Coast Valve Services as an authorized assembler and distributor effective immediately. East Coast will represent the SARASIN-RSBD safety relief valve brand for both new valve and repair business, leveraging their facility in Groton, CT. Repair services for any manufacturer’s brand of safety relief valves will be provided by East Coast in their territories which include Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the five Boroughs of New York City, and parts of Maryland, covering all markets except for nuclear power.

Mueller Water Products Acquires Pratt Industrial

Mueller Water Products has acquired Pratt Industrial of Emporia, KS. Pratt Industrial specializes in the design, engineering, and worldwide distribution of technologically advanced, industrial-use valves and actuators. Pratt has over 35,000 sq. feet of manufacturing and warehouse space, including a full-service machine shop for custom assemblies. Pratt Industrial has an existing relationship with Henry Pratt Company, a subsidiary of Mueller Water Products.

ATI Actuators Supplying Markham Terminal Expansion

Equistar Chemicals LP, a division of LyondellBasell, is planning to expand its underground ethylene storage facility and terminal in Clemville, TX, the Markham Terminal, with the help of ATI Actuators.

The Markham Expansion Project scope includes construction of equipment foundations, a control building and pipeline connections, and purchase and installation of dehydration and carbon dioxide removal, brine degassing, flaring, vapor control and monitoring equipment systems. Construction is expected to begin in the late third or fourth quarter of 2020.

MSS Publishes 2 Revised Industry Standards (SP-144-2020 and SP-124-2020)

The Manufacturers Standardization Society (MSS) of the Valve and Fittings Industry announces that ANSI/MSS SP-144-2020, Pressure-Seal Bonnet Valves, has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a revised American National Standard (ANS) and published by MSS. Standard Practice (SP)-144 has served the industry for over 5 years and first became ANSI-approved in 2015.

The Manufacturers Standardization Society (MSS) of the Valve and Fittings Industry also announces that SP-124-2020, Fabricated Tapping Sleeves, has been revised and published by MSS. Standard Practice (SP)-124 has served as an industry norm for over 21 years; covering the performance, design, and installation requirements of fabricated tapping sleeves used in water and sewage systems.

Curtiss-Wright Signs Agreement with Ringo Valves

Curtiss-Wright has partnered with Ringo Valves, a subsidiary of Samson AG Group, to provide the U.S. nuclear power market with control valves. Located in Zaragoza, Spain, Ringo Válvulas has designed and manufactured their cast and forged valves for over 30 years.

Ringo valves are used in a wide variety of applications such as refineries, chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas upstream, midstream & downstream, offshore, water treatment and energy generation plants (nuclear, fossil, combined cycle and thermosolar).