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New BVAA Training Course!: Safe, Effective Hydrostatic Testing of Valves

Safe, Effective Hydrostatic Testing of Valves In the UK valve industry, the need to test new product variations or introduce new test equipment ...
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Hot Spot New API Task Group- Hydrogen Valves

What is it? API have started work on a new document API 6Z Standard for Valves in Hydrogen Gas (H2) Service at Normal Temperature. The BVAA will be ...
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Hot Spot Proposed revision of BS 7350: 1990: Specification for Double regulating globe valves and flow measurement devices for heating and chilled water systems

What is it? Following completion of the 5 year review process, BSI are proposing to revise BS7350:1990 Specification for Double regulating globe ...
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Hot Spot Publication of ISO 28921-1 Isolating Valves for Low-temperature Applications- Design Manufacture and Production Testing

What is it? ISO 28921-1:2022 Isolating valves for low-temperature applications — Part 1: Design, manufacturing and production testing has now ...
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BVAA Technical Activity - June 2022

Each month, the BVAA Principal Technical Consultant, Peter Dix, provides members with a Technical Activity report for the previous month. Here are ...
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BVAA Working Groups

The BVAA has two outstanding technical discussion bodies, exclusively open to BVAA Members. These are the Valve Working Group and Actuator Working ...
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Comment by BVAA CEO Rob Bartlett: Under Pressure?

As a young greenhorn new to the trade association world, I once got drawn into a conversation where some members’ technical representatives ...
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BVAA Team Training Day

The BVAA are strong advocates of investing in staff, life-long learning and continuous professional development. Which is why, when the opportunity ...
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Hot Spot EN 558:2022 Face-to-face and Centre-to-face Dimensions of Metal Valves for use in Flanged Pipe Systems - PN and Class Designated Valves Published

What is it?The latest edition of EN 558 has now been published by CEN and is available to purchase. This standard specifies the face-to-face (FTF) ...
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BVAA - Meet the Trainer: Peter Dix - BVAA’s Principal Technical Consultant and Chief Lecturer

About Peter Dix Peter is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He has over thirty years’ experience in ...
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Hot Spot UK Government Announces Measures to Ease the Introduction of UKCA Marking Requirements

What is it? The UK Government have announced changes attempting to make it simpler for members to apply UKCA marking to valve and actuator products ...
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Comment by BVAA CEO Rob Bartlett: Throttling up!

Is it the glorious sunshine? Is it the newfound air of freedom we’re all feeling after two years of lockdown? Or is it perhaps the proverbial ...
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BVAA Future Leaders Programme: June Session - Cohort 5

A few months into the BVAA Future Leaders Programme and we are really getting into the meatier topics. The recent June sessions however were truly ...
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BVAA Autumn Training Dates

The UK's number one independent provider of valve and actuator training courses If you are looking for quality, independent valve and actuator ...
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Decades of BVAA Desktop Exhibitions: And still going strong…

This June, the BVAA organised their latest Desktop Exhibition at Fluor’s Farnborough facility with more than 40 visitors meeting with ten ...
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IVS 2022 - RECORD NUMBERS!: 12,000 Visitors from over 60 Countries

The fourth edition of Industrial Valve Summit recorded the highest number of visitors, exhibitors, exhibition space and number of scientific ...
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BVAA Annual Meetings and Gala Ball: 18 November 2022 - Carden Park, Cheshire

This hugely popular event is taking place in an even bigger and better location – Carden Park. This five-star hotel set in a 1,000-acre estate, ...
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Hydrostatic Testing: New BVAA Training Course

The BVAA has recently delivered its first Hydrostatic Testing Course for a major valve manufacturer in West Yorkshire, and is now offering it out to ...
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IVS 2022 - A Stunning Success!

The Industrial Valve Summit, held May 25th/26th 2022 at the Bergamo Fiera, Italy, was a stunning success on all fronts, breaking all previous records ...
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The BEST BVAA Spring Conference yet!

BVAA Spring Conference & Golf Day 18-19 May – Formby Hall With record numbers attending this year’s Spring Conference, our members ...
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