The fifth staging of Valve World Americas Expo & Conference organized by KCI Publishing Corp. and Messe Düsseldorf North America was held June 19 and 20 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. The entire event had a total of 4,361 attendees including more than 700 conference delegates, setting a new record.

 

The two-day event was attended by flow control professionals from all over the world including North America, Europe, India, China, the Middle East, and Latin America. These international delegates were a great mix of valve subject matter experts, procurement managers, piping engineers and materials specialists, including representatives from such influential companies as Phillips 66, Fluor, The Dow Chemical Co., Jacobs Engineering, Shell and many others.

 

In total, nearly 300 factories and service providers exhibited as part of the event. The popular Speakers' Corner stages, located at the heart of the expo floor, hosted presenters who discussed a variety of topics and performed live demonstrations, and the event had the unique opportunity to introduce new student research technologies from San Jacinto College and the University of Houston.

 

The conference, which ran concurrently with the exhibition, began each day with keynote lectures given by representatives from MRC Global, Emerson, Phillips 66, Treasury's Par Hawaii Refining, Dow Chemical and professional motivational speakers Mary Kelly and Meridith Elliott Powell. This year, the conference had the pleasure to introduce Tim Goedeker, senior principal environmental consultant of HSE, Refining, Phillips 66 as its chairman. Conference sessions were filled with interested delegates who challenged the speakers with educated and thoughtful questions and many in-depth discussions followed.

 

It was thrilling for the conference to see industry professionals sharing ideas and collaborating on important industry topics such as fugitive emissions, supply chain/approved manufacturers list, best practices, connected services/internet of things, testing, maintenance, pipeline valves, actuated valve assembly, fit for the application control valve approach, valve design, new technologies and more. In total, there were 15 different workshops with a variety of presentations and panel discussions including the first fully-dedicated Spanish language session, which was very well-received by attendees.

 

On June 18, the day before the conference officially began, six informative courses were held on the following topics: Valve Essentials, Fugitive Emissions, API 6D Pipeline Valves and Fluid Sealing Association Courses.

 

The Valve World Americas Expo & Conference team would like to thank Conference Chairman Tim Goedeker of Phillips 66 and the steering committee for all of their hard work in creating an interesting and educational conference program.

 

Valve World Americas would also like to take the opportunity to recognize the support of its main event sponsors: Bonney Forge, Bray, Cameron, Chase Valve, Crane, Emerson, MRC Global and Velan. Valve World Americas recognizes the support of its conference supporters as well: The Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA), the Fluid Sealing Association (FSA) and the Society of Piping Engineers (SPED).

 

The next staging of the Valve World Americas Expo & Conference will take place from June 23-24, 2021, in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

 

For information about the 2021 event, contact the following individuals:

 

Josh Gillen, 2021 Exhibition information:

 

 

Sarah Bradley, 2021 Conference information: