Anti-surge valves meet the most stringent requirements, and in the event of a disturbance must open lightning fast, with precise positioning and absolute reliability. One of the world’s leading compressor manufacturers selected Arca anti-surge valves for its compressor stations at a steel mill in Taiwan.

Valve specialist, Valve & Automation supplies total valve and control solutions to a wide range of key process industries across southern Africa. Chemicals and pulp and paper are top of its list of industries with demanding process conditions.

Control valves from ARCA, a specialist in industrial process control, are playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s generation 6 ARIANE rocket launchers at its launch pad located near Kourou in French Guiana. They also feature in the SpaceX launch site, Starbase in South Texas.

Valve & Automation’s control valve, more than four metres tall, produced for Siemens Energy in Duisburg, has broken ARCA’s internal design height record.

Anti-surge valves meet the most stringent requirements, and in the event of a disturbance must open lightning fast, with precise positioning and absolute reliability. One of the world’s leading compressor manufacturers selected Arca anti-surge valves for its compressor stations at a steel mill in Taiwan.

Valve & Automation’s control valve, more than four metres tall, produced for Siemens Energy in Duisburg, has broken ARCA’s internal design height record.

By adapting the technologies used in the compressor industry, it has now been possible to develop a new generation of pumps that are closing the performance gap to mechanical seal pumps and metallic magnetic drive pumps.

Following a devastating fire last year, the company has proudly announced its return home to 14 Elmfield Place, Springfield Park, Durban.

The framework agreement will cement ARCA’s position as one of two global key suppliers for automated control valves to BASF.