Articles

Below you will find published articles written by Valin's own experts and information from our suppliers.

Lower Running Costs by 1/3 with IAI Electric Actuators

Submitted by IAI

With air cylinders, a compressor is operated with electricity to generate compressed air, and generated air is supplied through a line to the air cylinder where it is then converted to linear-motion force. This mechanism is subject to significant energy loss.

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Solution to Address Noise Abatement Laws

Submitted by Metso Engineering Team

The noise abatement laws, and health and safety legislation are becoming increasingly strict. Metso introduces Q2- Trim, the optimum solution for noise problems, that at the same time fulfills all legislative requirements and customer needs.

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How Gauges Can Help Prevent Costly Loss of Containment

Submitted by WIKA Instrument Guru

Loss of containment is one of the costliest things that can go wrong at a plant. Accordingly, smart enterprises employ a variety of measures that ensure loss of containment just doesn't happen or when it does, the adverse circumstances are kept to a minimum.

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Installed Gain and Control Valve Selection

Submitted by Dr. Jon Monsen, featured in Valve Magazine

In a recent interview with VALVE Magazine, Dr. Monsen discussed how the analysis of installed gain can be a guideline for selecting the control valve that will provide good control with stability throughout the full range of required flow rates.

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Advanced Control Methods as 'Commodities'

Submitted by Renee Robbins Bassett, Featured in Automation World Magazine

Advanced Process Control (APC) methods used to be so advanced as to be esoteric- too complex and unusable except by a few high-level experts. Today, however, it seems APC is little talked about for an entirely different reason: It's become a commodity.

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Services Drive Growth for Valin®

Submitted by Modern Distribution Management

Services Drive Growth for Valin®

Services make up more than a third of Sunnyvale, CA-based industrial distributor Valin's revenue, up from just 5 percent five years ago. That growth has been no accident.

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Eight Things You Should Know about Valin® Corp.

Submitted by Cromwell Schubarth, Featured in Silicon Valley Business Journal

Valin® Corp. has more than doubled since CEO Joseph Nettemeyer began diversifying the 38-year-old industrial process and supply company away from its chipmaking industry roots in 2001.

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M&A M.D. Named Joe Nettemeyer

Submitted by Cromwell Schubarth, Featured in Silicon Valley Business Journal

To diversify Valin's business one acquisition at a time, it took the skills of an M&A M.D. named Joe Nettemeyer.

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How Smart Manufacturing Changes Everything

Submitted by ChiefExecutive.net

Automation of processes that increase yield and raise productivity, is the core of what people think of when they speak of smart manufacturing. Smart is not limited to process change but opens the door to the use of new materials.

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Nitrogen Generators in Power Plants

Submitted by Jon Newton, featured in Product Design & Development Magazine

Proper treatment of boiler systems when they are offline is a constant concern for those managing and overseeing the operations of a power plant. Many power plants are known in the industry as peaker plants, meaning they are not running constantly.

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Filtration Solution Leads to Three Years Between Shutdowns

Submitted by Frank Schollmeier, Featured in Processing Magazine

A primary goal of many a plant manager is maintaining continuous and cost-effective operation of a plant's turbine engines. When considering this goal, it is important for plant managers to be aware of recent advances in filter designs for turbine air intakes.

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