BVAA Annual Reports Articles
Valveuser Print Magazine Issue 83: Pick up your copy at CHEMUK 2023!
Valveuser Magazine Issue 83 is the first of our Special Print Editions for 2023!
Not only is it packed full of member articles, BVAA news a...
Valve User Issue 83
Massive thank you to Emerson
We were bestowed with another fantastic donation from Emerson at our recent desktop exhibition at Fluor.
They donated their new TopWorx™ HART 7. T...
Valve User Issue 51
Fabulous donation from Rotork
Thank you to the team at Rotork for donating three fantastic gearboxes comprising a modular two stage planetary gearbox, a bevel gearbox (HOB3) and a ...
Valve User Issue 51
Offshore Europe 2019
SPE Offshore Europe was held from 3rd – 6th September in the brand-new P&J Live events facility which offered 48.000sqm of exhibition space. The event...
Valve User Issue 51
Future Leaders
The culmination of FLP3’s year was once again the key note address to the massed ranks of BVAA members, at the November 2018 Annual General Meetings. ...
Valve User Issue 48
Training Report: Training isn’t important … it’s vital!
We often see a flurry of training bookings at the beginning of each financial year as new budgets are announced, or at the end when remaining funds ne...
Valve User Issue 48
Business Development Group Report
Desktops Exhibitions
Our Desktop exhibitions programme is, we believe, unique among associations – certainly among those in the fluid-controls secto...
Valve User Issue 48
Activites Report: BVAA Booms from another year of exciting events!
This past year has again exceeded expectations where events are concerned. It’s easy to see the extensive benefits to our members in terms of the netw...
Valve User Issue 48
Technical Report
BVAA’s Technical Service
The key role is to make available to member companies, Government, end users and customers, the expert knowledge that we po...
Valve User Issue 48
Valve Working Group
Going into my second year as year as chairman of the Valve Working Group, again we are seeing well supported working group meetings. With a lot of wor...
Valve User Issue 48
Actuator Working Group
While the WG – which meets concurrently with BSI’s PSE18/5 (actuators) - has not met in 2018, we have been busy at CEN, ISO and API standards meetings...
Valve User Issue 48
Director’s Report
I was so excited by the opportunity to update members on the many developments at BVAA, my first draft of this report became so long, I had to make it...
Valve User Issue 48
Chairman’s Report
Reflecting on my first year as Chairman of the BVAA, I can’t over-emphasise the excellent work that is done, constantly and consistently, by the core ...
Valve User Issue 48
'Stronger Together'
‘Stronger Together’
The maxim ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ was first brandished across posters in 1939. It was the year WWII began and the year the BV...
Valve User Issue 48
Business Development Group Report: ‘I Love it When a Plan Comes Together’
Admittedly the catchphrase of Hannibal (Smith, he of the ‘A-Team,’ not the Elephants) but 2017/18 really was a very rewarding time for the BVAA’s Busi...
Valve User Issue 44
Doing more, with less: Almost all of us have had to deal with that reality in our careers. At BVAA, this is no different.
Our outgoing Chairman has reflected upon the challenges that both he and I inherited in the mid-2000s, but the ones we faced last year were still some...
Valve User Issue 44
Business Development Group Report
Adding Value, Finding More Business
2016 was a busy year for the newly formed Business Development (BD) Group. The group’s raison d'ętre was change...
Valve User Issue 40
Training Report: Adapting to Changing Needs
When it comes to education and training, BVAA has a varied and multi-faceted role to play, and one which seems to change constantly.
In addition t...
Valve User Issue 40
Valve Working Group
Meetings
The Valve Working Group has continued with its regular programme of two meetings per year.
The March 2016 gathering took place at KT H...
Valve User Issue 40
Activities Report
Business as Usual, with Extra Drive
Although 2016 was challenging, with attendances generally down, few if any BVAA events were cancelled and we ev...
Valve User Issue 40
Actuator Working Group
Here at BVAA we’ve been very active in revising of some of our most important standards, attending technical meetings and contributing to the drafting...
Valve User Issue 40
Technical Report
BVAA Technical Service
The demand for Technical Service is wide ranging. The new initiative of Technical Expert Groups (TEGs) has helped to bring e...
Valve User Issue 40
Director’s Report: Challenging Times, Reasons for Optimism
We continue to regularly recruit new and lapsed members, but despite this, it has been troubling to see hard-won recruits evaporate due to mergers, le...
Valve User Issue 40
Chairman’s Report: An Uncertain Year, An Improving Outlook
‘Contraction, consolidation and a fair degree of uncertainty’ could perhaps succinctly summarise the last year in the British valve industry. The glob...
Valve User Issue 40
Valve World Dusseldorf 2016: 12,350 trade visitors from 88 countries
Late November also saw the biennial Valve World exhibition and conference in Dusseldorf – an event that goes from strength to strength. Certainly the ...
Valve User Issue 40