Award Winning Valves from the Award Winning Valve Maker

The Alco Valves Group, with headquarters in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, is one of the largest privately owned valve manufacturers in the United Kingdom. Alco has been making high pressure valves and manifolds to the highest international standards for the offshore, petrochemical, subsea, scientific and power generating industries for nearly 40 years. The company designs and manufactures numerous types of award winning valves including ball, needle, double block and bleed, severe service, low and high temperature valves all from its UK plant. Over the years Alco’s organic expansion has seen it open and operate sales offices, manufacturing plants, technical support offices and warehouses in the UK, Houston Texas USA, Toronto and Calgary in Canada, Singapore, the Middle East, South East Asia and the Far East. In addition, the company has many agents and distributors in over 30 other countries around the world. Due to this world wide appeal the company has been awarded the Queens award for Enterprise among its numerous other accolades. Alco’s worldwide reputation is synonymous for quality and with its high levels of service the company has prevailed to beat-off worldwide competition to achieve large and repeated export contracts and frame agreements that extend for several years in to the future. Alco’s exports have grown to a staggering 82% of revenue’s in recent years; which means that tens of thousands of UK made valves are being exported to an impressive global customer base every year. The company’s achievements are something to be really proud of. In 2013 Alco acquired a new 15,000 sq/ft factory unit, near to its head office in Brighouse and has recently been updating and refreshing its head office infrastructure, both these developments are being self-funded by the company. It is also currently seeking another 50,000 sq/ft. of office and manufacturing facility in the West Yorkshire area. The continuing expansion is great news for the local economy and it will continue to assist the company’s growth and capabilities. To keep ahead of the industry the Research and Development department (R&D) has also benefited from new and advanced technologies such as rapid 3D digital modeling, 3D laser object scanning and 3D rapid printing. These technologies are employed as a method of prototyping three dimensional valve parts from a computer generated image/drawing. A physical component can be created in plastic or metal materials within minutes or hours rather than the conventional CNC machining of prototype parts, which can take considerably longer. Alco Valves prides itself in its commitment to safety and uses stringent production testing facilities including the use of mass spectrometers, magnetic particleinspection/dye penetrant and ultrasound testing within its production process. The mass spectrometers are capable of testing leakage gas rates of less than one part per million, the MPI/DPI are capable of pin pointing material defects to 0.6mm and the ultrasonic testing checks for any size surface and subsurface indications using differing sized probes.Alco also has other testing capabilities include liquid gases to test low temperature products and hyperbaric testing to emulate deep sea valve applications and heat chambers are used to emulate hot fluid applications. All these severe circumstances that the company’s products have been tested to resist and sustain, mean that when in service they are capable of withstanding many differing and brutal environments that can be found through onshore, offshore and in subsea applications. Alco’s Group Managing Director, Stuart Lomax, said ‘Our continued development, growth throughout the world and sustainability is fantastic and feels very rewarding. This is a really exciting time for our businesses, both here in the UK and abroad. I would like to thank everyone at Alco, its customers and suppliers for their efforts, ongoing relationships and continued dedication contributing to the successes so far and we can all look forward to our continued commitment going forward.’Alco Valves Ltd Tel: 01484 710511 www.alco-valves.comAlco’s engineers are able to custom design to client’s specifications