Resources

The Valve Manufacturer Association of America or VMA represents dozens of American manufacturers of valves and actuators accounting for 80% of the total industrial valve shipments from US and Canadian facilities. VMA members benefit from a variety of provide resources including annual workshops, meetings and leadership forums as well as access to management information, market surveys, quarterly economic reports and a variety of other publications. Valve Manufacturers Association of America's members include American Valve, Inc. Asco Valve, Inc., Babbitt Steam Specialty Company, Automation Technology, Inc., Crane Valve Group, Floweserve Corp., Moog-Flo-Tork, Inc., Velan Valve Corporation and many more.

VMA's Valve Magazine is a publication available in conventional and digital print that covers a valve manufacturing products and related news and information. Valve Magazine also offers access to a variety of other publications including valve catalogs, suppliers guides, technical proceedings, brochures and a full up to date listing of upcoming valve related events.

KCI Publishing's Valve World is globally distributed print magazine and online resource magazine covering news stories and product information about valves, control valves, actuators and associated products. Each edition of Valve World provides reader with an insightful cover story about current events in the flow control industry as well as product news, technical papers, upcoming conferences, customer features and more. Valve World's secondary publications include Valve World Asia Journal, Annual Procurement Reports, Focus on Nuclear Power Generation and Community Journal.

Eng-Tips.com's Valve Engineering sub-forum provides valve engineers, suppliers and consumers with a place to discus valve products, applications and related products. Topics include actuator replacement, valve testing, valve linkage calculations, solenoids, hydrualic valves, energy recovery schemes and more.

The International Organization for Standarizatio's collection of Valve Standard information offers valve engineers, manufacturers and suppliers documents for purchase covering a variety of valve applications in several languages. The vast database of publications is searchable allowing users to narrow the results to a specific valve standard in a specified language.