Valves

Your valves are critical to controlling the direction and flow within your piping system. With a job so important to your operations, and the health of your systems, you want to be sure you get the supplies best suited to the job you need done. Whatever it is, we have it, and then some.

Types

We carry several types of piping valves, suited to different situations and systems.

Gate valves:

Gate valves block or open the pipe system for liquids to flow through. They are most often used as isolation valves and are universally used in large or small applications.

Globe valves:

These are suitable for both high and low pressure systems and are generally used as throttling or regulating valves.

Check valves:

Check valves prevent backflow in pipelines, ensuring material flow in only one direction. This helps protect the piping, pumps, other valves, and the system as a whole.

Ball valves:

Suitable for controlling the flow of gas, compressed air, and most liquids, these valves can be blocked, open, or partially open in order to better regulate flow. They are often emergency shut-off valves as they can be completely closed with only a quarter-turn.

Butterfly valves:

Used in large diameter, low-pressure pipe systems to shut off or regulate the flow of fluids.

Knife gate valves:

These valves either block or allow flow and are designed to control suspended solids, like slurries, and are widely used in mining and refining applications.

Plug valves:

Like a ball valve, they can open or close with only a quarter-turn. Plug valves are versatile and user-friendly, requiring very little force to manipulate, and allow for on-off control of gases and liquids.

Relief valves:

Also known as Pressure Relief Valves (PRV), these valves are designed to release excess pressure that builds up in equipment and piping systems. These are critical safety features for high pressure systems.

Needle valves:

As their name suggests, needle valves offer fine, very precise control over flow. They can be controlled by hand or an actuator and are most often used for less viscous fluids with low flow rates. They are also known as plunger valves.

Strainers:

These strain liquids from solids. These are common in systems carrying liquids or gases where small amounts of solids could appear, and where those solids may damage the system.

Materials and Specifications

We carry, or we can get, valves in sizes that vary from ¼ inch up to 48 inches in diameter and pressure classes from 125# to 6000#, so as to support a wide range of pipeline sizes and applications. In order to accommodate these needs, we carry valves in these materials:

Grades:

Quality

Valves are not only necessary for day-to-day operations but can also be crucial for both your equipment’s and people’s safety, so high quality and safety standards are critical. All our valves meet the necessary industry standards, including ASTM, NACE, ASME, and API, making them suitable for most industrial applications in Canada. If you have any questions about specific safety standards or quality regulations that you need to meet, please contact us about how we can help. If we don’t already have what you need, we can get it.