BVAA News Articles
BS EN ISO 16136:2006+A1:2019 Industrial valves - Butterfly valves of thermoplastics materials. Amended standard published
What is it?: This International Standard specifies requirements for the design, functional characteristics and manufacture of butterfly valves made of...
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Supporting guide dogs for the blind this October
Emma Newcombe, Commercial Director at Steam Plant Engineering and her husband have been dedicating their time to board and train guide dogs in conjunc...
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BS ISO 5209: 2019 General purpose industrial valves – Marking. Revised standard published
What is it?: This document specifies the requirements for the mandatory and optional markings of general purpose industrial valves. It defines the met...
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Mad Hatters - WIKA marathon
On Saturday the 20th July WIKA UK sent a team of keen runners to participate in the WIKA Staff Marathon, held at the companies head office in Klingenb...
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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...
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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 ...
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New Member: Oliver Valves
‘Operating under three companies for over 40-years, Oliver Valves, Oliver Valvetek and Oliver Twinsafe have grown to become one of the world’s leading...
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New Member: TÜV SÜD
TÜV SÜD is one of the world’s leading technical service providers of testing, product certification, auditing, systems certification, training and kno...
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New Member: Balmoral Subsea Test Centre: Long term hyperbaric testing to 700bar (7000msw)
‘This all-new test facility serves the global oil and gas, renewables, defence and oceanographic sectors with a range of hyperbaric test vessels, subm...
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Wood desktop a record breaker
The BVAA hosted a highly successful desktop exhibition at Wood in Reading.
The event quickly turned out to be a record breaker with 168 attendees v...
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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...
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1939 and implications for Climate Change
At first sight the inaugural meeting of the Iron and Steel Valve Manufacturer’s Association in September 1939 does not have a lot of relevance to the ...
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Are we there yet?: Comment By BVAA Director Rob Bartlett
For anyone who has had kids, this phrase will usually trigger adrenaline and quicken your pulse just a tad.
It’s a perpetual question, uttered fro...
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BS EN ISO 4126-1:2013 + A2:2019 “Safety devices for protection against excessive pressure - Part 1: Safety valves” - amended standard issued
What is it?: This part of ISO 4126 specifies general requirements for safety valves irrespective of the fluid for which they are designed.
It is a...
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BS EN ISO 4126-2:2019 “Safety devices for protection against excessive pressure - Part 2: Bursting disc safety devices” - revised standard issued
What is it?: This document specifies the requirements for bursting disc safety devices. It includes the requirements for the design, manufacture, insp...
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prEN 15714-5:2019 Industrial Valves - Actuators Part 5: Pneumatic linear actuators for industrial valves - Basic requirements - Draft for Public Comment
What is it?: This document provides basic requirements for piston type pneumatic linear actuators for industrial valves, both double acting and single...
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ISO/FDIS 5209 General purpose industrial valves – Marking Document for Final Vote and Approval to Publish
What is it?: This document specifies the requirements for the mandatory and optional markings of general purpose industrial valves. It defines the met...
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International Steam Trap Standards – Proposal to revise
What is it?: The following International Standards have completed their 5 year review. The UK voted to confirm except ISO 6554 where the vote was abst...
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BVAA at IVS
Rob Bartlett writes, ‘This was our first visit to IVS, and what a welcome surprise it turned out to be! The show had a fantastic atmosphere and attend...
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Welcome back returning members: Cameron
‘Cameron Flow Control Technology (UK) Limited supports the powered and manual automation demands of valves servicing the energy and industrial markets...
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Welcome back returning members: Eriks
‘Backed by an extensive partner supplier network, our multi-brand approach coupled with unrivalled product knowledge and rapid delivery services, ensu...
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New member: Buxton Special Alloys
‘Buxton Special Alloys is a UK Stockholder and Machinist of Stainless Steel, Duplex, Super Duplex and Nickel Alloys.
We have more than 25 years of...
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New member: Flexitallic
‘Flexitallic is the market leader in the manufacture and supply of static sealing solutions, delivering high quality industrial gaskets on a global sc...
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New member: SFC Europe
‘A market leading stockholder and manufacturer of petrochemical grade bolting supplied competitively and on-time.
SFC also manufacture high integri...
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New member: Qualtec
‘Qualtec Control Limited specialise in the overhaul, repair and refurbishment of Industrial Valves and related ancillary equipment, serving a range of...
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