Valve + Coupler + Actuator

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Following the acquisition, last year, of the valves and instruments company Salcon, MES Inc. become a supplier of Emerson Automation Solutions based in Mansfield, OH.

MES has an outstanding record with Emerson in providing primarily Fluid Control Products (mainly valves) and was able to assist with the simplification of the otherwise complicated and internationally diverse acquisition process of a set of valves/couples/actuators for a plastics plant in the Sultanate of Oman.

In this assembly, the valve controls the flow, the actuator controls the internal components of the valve and the coupler connects these two components to bear the weight of the actuator on the valve. The Emerson actuators had to be matched with couplers sourced in the UK from QK quickits, while the ball valves originated in Italy from RMT Valvomeccanica.

The complexity of the project was accentuated by the unusual size of the components. The bolt circle diameter of the valve alone measures 32 inches and weighs approximately 6,400 pounds.