Royal Recognition

Welcome to the latest issue of BVAA’s Valve User magazine!

In this issue we are delighted to announce not one, but TWO Queen’s Awards winners among the BVAA Membership!

Recognition, if it were needed, of the tremendous contribution made to Enterprise and International Trade by British valve manufacturers, but an especially proud moment for the recent award winners Alco Valves Group and Severn Glocon Group! The members and staff of the BVAA offer our hearty congratulations.

We ‘bang on’ in this journal about the levels of experience, technology and quality that customers can expect from BVAA member companies, and this Royal Recognition underlines what readers of the magazine can see for themselves in every issue.

But it doesn’t stop there. Also in this issue we feature articles on valve company tours by the Princess Royal - opening the new Bray facility in Inchinnan, Scotland, and also the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne visiting Advanced Actuators in Silsden Yorkshire.

Then there are articles on significant milestones for other members, new product launches, appointments, expansions, etc.

Exports represent a huge proportion of British valve industry production, so we’ve also introduced a new feature where industry leaders from outside the UK contribute to Valve User too.

Currently there are mainly politically-motivated proposals by certain parties to re-introduce ‘Made in Britain’ labelling to products manufactured in Britain, but in what some might say is an irreversibly globalized market place, pinning down what that means precisely might prove tricky.

What we can say however is that there is so much innovation, product development, expertise and know-how in the British Valve industry that we do, genuinely, lead the world.

Look for the ‘Member of BVAA’ logo on your valve industry supplier’s literature.

Published: 13th May 2014