TPI July 2011

Valves

Valves

Valves are pipe fittings. but, given their regulatory function – responsive to pressure, temperature, or flow – they are pipe fittings like no others and warrant a category all to themselves. They are essential to the design, manufacture, acceptance, and serviceability of vital products across a spectrum of heavy and light industry. The makers of valves for tube products also serve many other masters, in the military, commercial, residential, and transport fields. Theirs is a wide world of applications from water taps to heart valves — all calling, at a minimum, for a guaranteed leak-tight seal between tube and fitting over a long, maintenance-free life. It is the sphere of experienced professionals confident of satisfying high expectations.

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Tube ProducTs InTernaTIonal July 2011