A newly established company, Velan Srl is headquartered in a 40,000 sqft (3,700 square metre) office and plant in Mezzago, Italy, just outside Milan.
With extensive experience in designing and manufacturing trunnion-mounted pipeline valves, Velan has also been manufacturing API 6D ball valves in North America for the oil and gas industry for many years. In fact, the Velan brand is well established in Australia and the company has held the API 6D Monogram for ball valves since 1993.
The establishment of a new facility in Milan enables the company to expand on it’s current product line and offer the most comprehensive range of ball valves available from any manufacturer. This when coupled with an experienced and technical distribution arm in FCX Australia, provides significant added-value benefits to Australian end-users.
Curt Tebbutt, Managing Director FCX Australia explains, “the Velan product line includes bolted body, welded body and top entry API 6D Trunnion-Mounted Ball Valves in sizes 1″ to 64″ (25-1600 mm) and ASME Pressure Classes 150#-2500# for a variety of standard and severe services, including cryogenic, offshore, sub sea and underground. Furthermore, bolted body and top entry API 6A Ball Valves are available from API 2000-15000 psi.
“As with the entire range from Velan, these valves take advantage of many advanced design features that ensure long, trouble-free service life,” Curt said.
Velan has been a trusted supplier of high quality valves for many of the oil and gas industry’s largest and most respected end users. They have kept at the forefront of the industry through constant innovation, design improvements and manufacturing industry firsts,
Now, in partnership with Australasia’s leading Valve distributor FCX Australia, Velan Srl looks forward to becoming your trusted supplier of API 6A and 6D Trunnion-Mounted Ball Valves. Velan employs 1,475 people and has manufacturing facilities in 8 countries. While FCX International Distribution employs over 1,000 people and has offices in 32 countries worldwide.