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Discover how rotary valves reduce stem seal leakage compared to globe valves, improving safety and reliability in critical process applications.

Learn how proactive inventory management, vendor support, and careful valve planning ensure a successful refinery shutdown and turnaround.

Macnaught hazard rated flow meter products offer global approval ratings, high accuracy and repeatability with no flow conditioning required. Designed for clean process fluids that require Explosion Proof, Intrinsically Safe or Simple Safe measurement needs.

Expandable Ethernet I/O modules now support three field-selectable protocols for networks using Profinet, EtherNet/IP, and Modbus TCP/IP.

Valin and Parker are teaming up to host an exclusive event, showcasing process control products. Explore Parker's state-of-the art 68’ expandable tractor-trailer with a customized display room featuring flow, control, pressure and corrosion control products and solutions.

Valin is proud to be an authorized distributor of Parker Hannifin Aerospace, Engineered Materials, Filtration, Fluid Connectors and Motion Systems. Click below to learn more.

If it flows through a pipe Valin can heat it, filter it, control it, measure it, automate it and network it. Contact us today to learn more.

How many of your plant processes still depend on operator tribal knowledge? Any of those operators retiring soon? Yokogawa's e-RT3 Plus utilizes Factorial Kernel Dynamic Policy Programming (FKDPP) for accelerated machine learning. It can control and autonomize areas of plant operations that have been beyond the capabilities of existing control methods and have up to now necessitated manual operation. 

How can you be sure that a control panel you are purchasing from a builder meets the quality standard you need?  After all, it needs to be built both correctly but more importantly, safely.  Learn more in the blog below.

Tank heating is crucial across various industries, making it a common application in industrial heating. Whether dealing with water, fuel, or corrosive substances, the process requires careful consideration. Read this blog to learn more.

Most processes in this world require some form of heat. Specifically, there is a need to heat something that resides in a tank. Water, fuel, etc... there seems to always be a need to maintain temperature or heat up product inside a tank. However, this requirement is not something to be taken lightly.

Discover the intricacies of condition monitoring in our latest blog. Learn how to select the right sensors and equipment tailored to your process needs and budget.

Preventative maintenance and condition monitoring are not only independent concepts, but they are also ones that should not be treated with a one-size-fits-all approach. Learn more in the blog below.

With the Industrial Internet of Things and digitization, opportunities to improve business performance are almost endless. Yet the process of adopting new technology requires smart investments.

Valin offers a comprehensive and highly differentiated portfolio of fluid control & pneumatics, machine control, and software solutions for discrete and hybrid manufacturing.

Emerson has developed a groundbreaking solution for addressing challenges in upstream oil and gas applications related to pneumatic valve emissions.

Microelectronics are an inescapable and critical part of nearly every person's life.

Without highly efficient filtration at sub-micron particle sizes, these microelectronics technologies would be difficult if not impossible. Specific gas filters protect critical processes that require a particle free environment to manufacture devices with nearly nanoscale features.

Macnaught manufactures highly accurate, robust industrial-grade flow meters for clean process fluid applications.

WIKA's family of robust products with IO-Link pressure, temperature, and flow sensors enable the remote monitoring and process control of intelligent machines in smart factories.

Hydrogen is key to decarbonization - in the chemical industry as well as for developed nations. However, while it is relatively easy and cheap to produce, pure H2 is notoriously difficult to transport and store. Most methods require high operational and/or energy costs.

Leaks are a pernicious issue in natural gas pipelines. As hydrogen can escape even more easily than methane through the tiniest holes, cracks, and weld seams, the transport and eventual storage of this gas is one of the major barriers to wider adoption of this gas as a fuel and feedstock. Hydrogen permeation and embrittlement only exacerbate the problem.

Selecting the proper positioner is critical. The wrong decision can lead to unnecessary costs on one end of the spectrum and the need for a replacement on the other.

So, you know you need some form of control in your process, but where do you go from there?  There are so many different options available depending on the process conditions and the level of control you're looking for. And with budget restrictions becoming ever more stringent, making the best decision the first time is crucial.