Through our extensive partnerships with ball valve manufacturers, we connect you to the right custom and specialty ball valves to support all of your unique project requirements.
Sometimes the Right Valve is Hard to Find
Specific standards of your industry or custom specifications for your project sometimes mean the ball valve you need won’t be something you can easily find off-the-shelf. Long lead times, high costs, and difficulties working out custom solutions for specialty valves can have dire consequences for your project timeline and budget.
Sourcing the appropriate specialty valve your project calls for isn’t always easy. But with a vast product inventory and strong relationships with leading ball valve manufacturers, American Stainless is here to connect you to the valves you need, on your schedule.
What are specialty ball valves—and why does your project need them?
Standard ball valves come in many shapes and sizes. They can be made of many different materials—but some specific industrial applications have unique and specific demands for materials, design features, or performance characteristics that standard valves can’t meet. In these circumstances, specialty valves provide safety, efficiency, and reliability while standard valves might fall short.
Specialty valves are designed to handle many types of situations.
Extreme Operation Conditions
Corrosive or Abrasive Media
Regulatory and Compliance Demands
How to Source Specialty Valves from Valve Manufacturers
The specialty ball valves your project requires can be difficult to procure on your own without endangering your project timelines or budgets. A PVF distributor with close relationships with ball valve manufacturers can make the process easier and keep your projects on-track by:
Requesting Customization Support
As a contractor, requesting customized specialty valves from a manufacturer can be a frustrating process. Your PVF supplier can handle the hard work of requesting custom ball valves and ensuring they meet your project’s exact specifications.
Managing Supply Chain/Inventory
If your PVF supplier has a large enough inventory, and extensive connections with ball valve manufacturers, they can provide efficient supply chain solutions and maintain a stock of specialized products, including speciality valves that meet your requirements.
Documenting Certification/Compliance
One of the most common reasons to use specialty valves is ensuring compliance with industry requirements. Your PVF distributor works with ball valve manufacturers to obtain necessary documentation and certifications to prove compliance.
After-Sales Support
Specialty valves may have unique needs for maintenance and support to ensure their performance and longevity in the field. Your PVF supplier can provide technical assistance and troubleshooting to maximize the benefits of your specialty ball valves.
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Exploring the Features of Specialty Valves
What makes specialty ball valves so special? Ball valve manufacturers produce specialty valves to cater to flow control situations in which standard models of valve cannot provide sufficiently reliable or long-lived performance or ensure compliance with stringent industry regulations.
Characteristics and features that distinguish specialty valves from standard ball valves include:
Unique Material Composition
Specialty valves can be constructed from less common special alloys or lined with materials such as PTFE for better resistance against corrosive, abrasive, high-temperature, or high-pressure fluids.
Design Modifications
A specialty ball valve manufacturer will often customize standard valves with altered port designs, multi-port configurations, or top-entry designs for efficiency in specific circumstances or easier maintenance.
Enhanced Sealing Technologies
A specialty valve may involve taking a standard ball valve and using special elastomer materials, double or triple sealing systems, or metal-to-metal seals to prevent leaks in high-pressure or vacuum applications.
Sophisticated Automation/Control
Ball valve manufacturers can integrate standard ball valves with sophisticated pneumatic, hydraulic, or electric actuators, advanced control systems, and other automation features for precise flow regulation.
Higher Operational Specs
Specialty valves are designed or modified to operate in environments that exceed the capabilities of standard valves, such as in extreme temperature, pressure, or vacuum environments.
Regulatory Compliance
Ball valve manufacturers design specialty valves to the strict and precise standards demanded by industries such as pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, or oil and gas to ensure safe, consistent performance.
How to Know When Your Project Needs Specialty Valves
Using the right ball valve makes all the difference between efficient, reliable flow control systems that ensure a safe and industry-compliant operating environment and systems that do not. If your project exhibits one or more of these characteristics, talk to your PVF distributor about sourcing custom valves from their ball valve manufacturers:
Operating Conditions Outside Standard Ranges
If your project involves extremely high or low temperatures, unusual pressures, or flow rates outside of the ranges typically handled by standard valves, you will likely need specialty valves.
Handling Aggressive or Unusual Media
Especially corrosive or abrasive chemicals or slurries, highly pure media, or other unusual fluids often require valves with specific material compositions, linings, or coatings that standard ball valves don’t have.
Stringent Regulatory and Safety Requirements
If your project falls within sectors such as pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, or oil and gas, make sure to check your industry’s regulatory standards and see if it calls for specialty valves.
Complex Flow Control Needs
You may need custom ball valves with especially precise control over flow rates, direction, or mixing of media to ensure your pipe infrastructure can efficiently meet its user’s needs.
Why Choose American Stainless for Specialty Valves?
Not all PVF suppliers and distributors are well-equipped to provide their customers with the specialty ball valves they need to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient flow control solutions or comply with the stringent compliance demands of certain industrial sectors.
American Stainless combines a world-class quality management system and a commitment to fast and excellent customer service with an extensive network of relationships with leading ball valve manufacturers to make certain our customers can receive custom specialty valves without jeopardizing project timelines or budgets. We respond quickly to your inquiries and do everything in our power to source and deliver your custom valves on your timeline—not anybody else’s.
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