Value-added engineering simply means just that. It enhances and customizes a standard solution so that it works better; offers cost, reliability and performance benefits; or uniquely solves a long-standing challenge. Providing value-added engineering is more than lip service and empty claims. It requires that an engineering team be in place, tasked with improving project quality [...]
When Holiday House Distributing, the largest distributor of OCS, water and vending parts in North America, needed a modification to a ball valve design, there was no question that it would ask The Specialty Manufacturing Co. (SMC) to create it. Although Holiday House could have chosen to continue to perform manual assembly of the fitting, [...]
Now design engineers can quickly navigate through intuitive menus of valve attributes to identify the right valve for their application. Introducing The Specialty Mfg. Valve Configurator. The powerful online specification tool hosted at https://www.specialtymfg.com guides users based on their requirements with no guess work. Once the configurator displays the search results, users can view and compare the [...]
Small parts are the most important components for fuel systems, especially when space is at a premium and you need a brass or plastic check valve that perfectly fits your needs. Often, companies specializing applications such as water methanol injection kits for diesel and gasoline engines, have problems and turn [...]
As the food processing, beverage, and clean water industries grow, so does the need for ball, check & miniature valves, and one & two-way ball valve applications. NSF rated and PVDF valves are some of the most sought-after parts. In fact, search data from industrial component marketers show that NSF [...]
A chlorine dispenser situated at the point of water collection is being piloted in Kenya and has been well received by communities, with a 69% take-up rate. Identifying how to scale up this approach could drastically alter the rural water landscape and allow more children to be saved from the scourge of diarrhea. Read [...]
The Specialty Mfg. Co. has a rich heritage of innovation that spans more than a century and four generations. Founder William Boss was an agricultural engineer that received numerous patents for his inventions including a lawn mower - grass collector (1902), and a garden hose reel (1918). Boss founded The Specialty Mfg. Co. in [...]
