BVAA Comment Articles
European Directives Confusion: By BVAA Technical Consultant, Peter Churm
Compliance with the Essential Safety Requirements of both the Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC and the ATEX Directive 94/9/EC has been a mandator...
Valve User Issue 5
BVAA‘Mad Hatters’
How far can you go wearing a BVAA Hat?
Quite a long way it would seem! Readers are stilling sending in photos of themselves wearing the free BVAA c...
Valve User Issue 5
BVAA at Ratcliffe Power Station
The BVAA Marketing Committee recently met at Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station. The day included discussions on BVAA marketing initiatives and a very im...
Valve User Issue 5
Dinner Dance Success!
The November AGM at Wood Hall, Wetherby, also heralded the best attended BVAA Dinner Dance for many years, with a veritable ‘who’s who’ of the industr...
Valve User Issue 5
Filling the UK Energy Gap: BVAA an ‘Exceptional Example of Good Practice’
Welcome to Issue 5 of BVAA’s Valve User magazine! It is my great pleasure to announce that BVAA has recently been selected for inclusion in the Instit...
Valve User Issue 5
BVAA an ‘Exceptional Example of Good Practice’
Welcome to Issue 5 of BVAA’s Valve User magazine! It is my great pleasure to announce that BVAA has recently been selected for inclusion in the Instit...
Valve User Issue 5
BVAA Launch ‘Business Shield’ Service
On June 1st 2008 will launch a very important new service for BVAA members. Titled ‘BVAA Business Shield’, the new service is offered free of charge t...
Valve User Issue 6
BVAA’s ‘award winning’ Valve User magazine!
We have a particularly interesting and wide range of articles and news items in this issue, plus of course all the latest updates on BVAA initiatives,...
Valve User Issue 6
Problems with Valves?
There are many valve types and designs, and each has a particular suitability for certain industrial process applications. Correct valve selection for...
Valve User Issue 7
BVAA ‘Business Shield’ Service
As part of the recent BVAA Executive Committee meeting, Croners made a very informative presentation on the new Business Shield HR and Health & Safety...
Valve User Issue 7
BVAA ‘Mad Hatters’: How far can you go wearing a BVAA Hat?
Well the other side of the world apparently! Pictured is Mark Thomas of Delta Valve NZ, who was with Rotork UK until he recently emigrated. The hat, p...
Valve User Issue 7
Marketing at Heaps
The BVAA Marketing Committee held its June meeting at Heap & Partners, Hoylake. In addition to discussing the usual topics, the committee also receive...
Valve User Issue 7
AMEC Aberdeen
BVAA were delighted to be invited to hold a Desktop Exhibition on 22nd May at AMEC Aberdeen. These hassle-free events are an excellent way for supplie...
Valve User Issue 7
Your Valve User
Welcome to Issue 7 of BVAA’s ‘award winning’ Valve User magazine! Right now we are in celebratory mood at BVAA HQ, as we have just recruited our 100th...
Valve User Issue 7
Training Week Success
BVAA’s autumn training sessions at the Banbury HQ were once again a great success! Over 60 students attended the seven courses run over the week, and ...
Valve User Issue 8
BVAA Regional Meetings: Technical Meetings at ASCO Numatics
BVAA was delighted to host two ‘regional’ meetings for its members in October, in the north of England. The events were primarily aimed at providing m...
Valve User Issue 8
Score Peterhead
BVAA were delighted to be invited to hold a Desktop Exhibition on 18th November at Score Europe’s impressive facility at Wellbank, Peterhead. Thirty-t...
Valve User Issue 8
BVAA‘Mad Hatters’ - How far can you go wearing a BVAA Hat?
In this issue BVAA’s Director Rob Bartlett is photographed in front of one of the finest Chateaus in the Vendee region of France – but which one? It w...
Valve User Issue 8
BVAA ‘Business Shield’ Leaflet
BVAA has recently issued an explanatory leaflet to all BVAA members about the new Business Shield HR and Health & Safety service. The leaflet explains...
Valve User Issue 8
Interesting Times
Despite the ongoing mayhem in the stock markets, most members are fortunately still reporting a reassuringly buoyant market for UK valves and actuator...
Valve User Issue 8
Engineering - The Way Back
"For the future, Britain needs an economy with less financial engineering and more real engineering."
No, not an incisive comment from the humble ...
Valve User Issue 9
BVAA ‘Mad Hatters’: How far can you go wearing a BVAA Hat?
In this issue, the BVAA Hat has made a trip north, but can you identify where? There’s £50 to the charity of your choice if you can identify this Scan...
Valve User Issue 10
BVAA and Industry - Still Busy
Hello and welcome to this our tenth issue of Valve User magazine!
Despite the continuing doom and gloom in the financial sector, and the knock on e...
Valve User Issue 10
