BI-TORQ/BDI 2012

BALL VALVES * BUTTERFLY VALVES * PNEUMATIC AND ELECTRIC ACTUATORS * KNIFE GATE VALVES
* SOLENOIDS * VALVE POSITIONERS * GEAR OPERATORS * FIRE SAFE FUSIBLE LINKS
* CUSTOMIZED MOUNTING KITS AND EXTENSIONS *

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FOR VALVE AUTOMATION

Company Overview: Who we are

BI-TORQ Valve Automation is a leader in the
industrial valve market
• Complete automated valve packages with
pneumatic and electric valve actuators
• Metal and thermoplastic ball and butterfly valves
• Automation accessories and safety products
• Engineered product and customized valve
automation hardware
• Diverse product line able to support a wide range of

applications and end users

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Company Overview: Video

The Marketplace: The BI-TORQ Advantage!

What makes BI-TORQ unique:
• Broad product range
• Outstanding technical support from our sales staff
• Ability to interchange by competitors’ part numbers
• Ability to interchange by application
• Capability of retrofitting to competitors’ products
• Over 30,000 designed mounting kit combinations
• Can supply EXACT product as interchange to meet specs

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Sample Industries and Applications

• STEEL PRODUCTION • GAS AND OIL
• MANUFACTURING • BIOFUELS
• STEAM GENERATION
• NUCLEAR

• FOOD AND BEVERAGE
• PHARMACEUTICAL

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Applications and End Users: Flanged Valves

Food and Beverage
Blommer Chocolate
• Location: Chicago, IL
• Plant produces variety of custom chocolate
products including the chips for Chips Ahoy cookies

• Application: BI-TORQ Valve Automation has
supplied a variety of automated valves for retrofit,
including 2” and 3” 150# flanged valves with
pneumatic actuators handling steam and water as
part of the processing of cocoa beans

• ANSI face-to-face make it a drop-in replacement
for existing units

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Applications and End Users: SS 2-piece Ball Valves

Agricultural
FarmChem
• Location: Mason City, IA

• Application: Pneumatic control valve for
bulk seed handlers.

• The customer uses ½” and 1” 2-piece SS
ball valves as part of its Meridian 600RT™
system. The radio control remote provides
control access from the planter, opening
and closing the desired compartment via the
ball valve, controlling the conveyor
functions, and displaying on a light panel
which compartment is open.

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Applications and End Users: SS 3-piece Ball Valves

Filling Equipment
Filling Equipment, Inc.
• Location: College Point, NY

• Application: Pneumatically-actuated ball
valves for a high-cycle filling application

• Filling Equipment Company builds in-line,
rotary and piston-type filling machines (for
handling from very small to high volume
filling, manual to fully automated), as well as
capping equipment. In addition to using our 3-
piece ball valve, Filling Equipment also uses
our automated PVC valves.

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Applications and End Users: High Cycle Valves

Food and Beverage
Cargill
• Location: Milwaukee, WI

• Application: automated ball valves for the “gut table”
to control “superhot” and standard city water at high-
cycling intervals (every 30 seconds)

• BI-TORQ Valve Automation provided Cargill with 1-1/4”,
1-1/2” and 2” “high performance” ball valves with
pneumatic actuators after Apollo valves failed

• Valves have extra belleville spring
washers and 50/50 seats for high cycling

• Our pneumatic actuators have been cycled
over 750,000 times at our facility

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Applications and End Users: High Cycle Valves

Manufacturing
Kohler
• Location: Kohler, WI

• Application: automated ball valves for
conveying ceramic “slip” to toliet and sink
mold injection equipment

• BI-TORQ Valve Automation provides
automated 3-piece ball valves for Kohler in WI
and Mexico. Because the valves cycle so often
and the “slip” is so abrasive, we recommended
a 3-piece design for easy maintenance and
replacement.

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Applications and End Users: Multi-Port Valves

Systems Integration
Gala Industries
• Location: Eagle Rock, VA

• Application: Gala Industries is an OEM that designs
systems for pelletizing production systems for
thermoplastics, engineered resins, TPU, HMA and
compounding applications

• BI-TORQ Valve Automation is the preferred supplier of
automated ball valves, including 3-piece, brass, 3-way and
tank valves

• The 3-way valves in Gala’s systems are part of the mixing
process, where raw resins come in from one side and
steam enters from the opposite port.
• Because of the material, BI-TORQ oversizes the
pneumatic actuator

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Applications and End Users

Food and Beverage
M&M Mars/Wm.Wrigley Corporation
• Location: Waco, Texas

• Application: This plant produces over
1,000,000 Snickers bars per day!

• BI-TORQ Valve Automation has
supplied complete automated
assemblies including sanitary 2-way
and 3-way valves with pneumatic
actuators that handle milk and soybean
oil. Limit switches and solenoids are
part of a complete automated package.

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Applications and End Users: Sanitary Valves

Food and Beverage
Filtration Engineering
• Location: Champlain, MN

• Application: customer uses Reverse Osmosis
(RO) as part of membrane process to remove
water from dilute solutions of dairy and food
products. FE also has a system of “pre-
concentration” of whey and skim milk prior to
evaporation

• BI-TORQ provides 2”, 2-1/2” and 3” cavity-
filled sanitary ball valves with spring return
pneumatic actuators and modulating
positioners

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Applications and End Users: PVC Valves
Green Technology
Tanimura & Antle
• Location: Livingston, TN

• Application: hydroponic greenhouses to grow lettuce
year-round in regions outside of the typical CA farm
fields

• BI-TORQ Valve Automation provided 2” PVC ball valves
with Viton seals and automated with electric actuators
after a competitor’s valve failed because of the wrong
choice of seals

• After 3 years, the units are running perfectly and
helping Taniumra & Antle to harvest more than 43,000
heads of lettuce per day!

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Applications and End Users: High Pressure Valves

Manufacturing
Durable Corporation
• Location: Knoxville, TN

• Application: lowering and raising hydraulic
presses for a manufacturer of custom rubber mats

• Customer had been using Vickers directional
valves that leaked badly after just a few months.

• BI-TORQ Valve Automation provided 40) 7200 PSI
high pressure hydraulic valves with pneumatic
actuators in 1” through 2” sizes with pneumatic
actuators

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Applications and End Users: Butterfly Valves

Industrial Applications
La Farge
• Location: Chesapeake, VA

• Application: Customer had been using standard
12” butterfly valves for fly ash service, but both
the seat and disc material were getting eroded
because of constant wear

• BI-TORQ provided a BFV with a natural rubber
seat and an undercut disc to reduce wear and
“rubbing”

• Customer used to have to replace valves every 6
months, but our valves have been in place for 3+
years without problems

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Applications and End Users: Butterfly Valves

Industrial
Ellis Corporation
• Location: Elk Grove Village, IL

• Application: Manufacturer of industrial
laundry equipment and laundry conveyors

• Customer uses large quantities of 3” lug
style BFVs with double acting pneumatic
actuators on customized laundry equipment
to control water

• BI-TORQ provided a cost-effective valve
and actuator package with a low-profile to
reduce costs for this OEM

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Applications and End Users: Knife Gate Valves
Food and Beverage
Mountaire Farms
• Location: Lumber Bridge, NC

• Customer is one of the largest poultry
processors in N. America

• Application: Mountaire needed a solution to
handle chicken parts through the pipeline after
initial processing.

• Conventional butterfly valves cannot be used
because of issues with abrasion on seats and
inability to seal against feathers, bones, etc.

•Mountaire purchased 6” and 10” knife gate
valves with hydraulic cylinders to cut through
solid material

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Applications and End Users: Limit Switches
Processing and Diagnostics
Nitta Gelatin
• Location: Lumberton, NC

• Application: DeviceNet control of pneumatic
actuators on sanitary valves handling gelatin and
gelatin by-product

• Nitta Gelatin wanted to be able to provide a unit that
would be able to record the number of cycles and
assist in a preventative maintenance schedule

• By using a DeviceNet switch box, the customer could
use customized software in order to provide complete
diagnostics

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Applications and End Users: 4-20mA Positioners
OEM Equipment
Deicing Systems and Solutions
• Location: Memphis, TN

• Application: high-resolution modulating 3” 150#
flanged ball valves on glycol mixing systems

• DSS has incorporated 2) 3” modulating ball
valves and 1) 2-1/2” safety shut-off valve into its
glycol blending systems for FedEx’s hub

• Previous supplier could not provide a 4-20mA
positioner board to provide a precise signal,
resulting in overmixing and glycol loss. The 4-
20mA board we specified is accurate to +/-.0001%

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Carbo-Bond Products: Valve Automation Hardware

Custom Manufactured Valve Automation Hardware
for ANY valve and ANY actuator

48 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE
AND EXPEDITED DELIVERY ARE
OUR SPECIALTIES

FULL SERVICE MOUNTING AND TESTING

Anything’s Possible----Just Ask!

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FREESTANDING & HEAT EXTENSIONS

APPLICATIONS
• high heat through
valve/steam
(actuator protection)
• buried service
• tanks
•accessibility
(catwalks, etc.)

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TANDEM LINKAGE ASSEMBLIES

Single actuator
with
multiple valves

3-Way Tee Linkage

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Applications and End Users: Tee Linkages

Food and Beverage
Bicardi Rum
• Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Application: 3-way tee linkage for mixing
alcohol/water control

• The customer required a specialty tee linkage
with a variety of materials and sizes, including
a tee made of PVC, two butterfly valves with SS
discs (one an 8” size and the other a 3”) and a
master actuator to control both

• Our engineers were able to design a tee
linkage that accommodated the different sizes
and materials

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Applications and End Users: Tandem Linkages

OEM Custom Product
QPC (Quality Products Company, Inc.)
• Location: Katy, TX

• Application: Tandem linkage for 6-outlet custom
lube system for an OEM

• The customer required that 3) 3-way L-port 3/8”
ball valves be controlled by a single 220VAC electric
actuator as part of a lube system for Volvo

• Our engineers designed a tandem linkage for
simultaneous control of 3 valves; the 3-way valves
can be configured differently for a wide variety of
output options depending on flow requirements.

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Specialty Safety Products: Lock-Outs
OSHA Lock-Outs
Allegheny Technologies (ATI), LLC
• Location: North Skull Valley, UT

• Plant produces special metals and alloys,
including titanium

• Application: BI-TORQ Valve Automation has
supplied lock-out kits for automated valves in
order to prevent the accidental opening of a
valve in a critical process

• units meet OSHA requirements for lock-out
devices on automated valves

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Specialty Safety Products: Deadman Handles

Deadman Handles
US Navy
• Location: San Diego, CA

• Application: spring return deadman
handles and fire safe valves at a fueling
station for U.S. Navy

• The U.S. Navy has purchased more than
30) 1” 150# flanged fire safe valves, half of
which have deadman handles for safety
shut-off purposes to prevent fuel loss on
transport ships

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Specialty Safety Products: Fire Safe Valves

FUSIBLE LINK ASSEMBLIES FOR FIRE PROTECTION

•Automatic shutoff in
case of fire
•Process or fire
suppression systems
•Valve can be
operated even while
spring pack is armed

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Specialty Safety Products: Fire Safe Valves

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Identifying Applications

Identifying Applications
in the Field

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Identifying Applications in the Field

When a picture is NOT worth 1000 words
• Thanks to the wide use of cell
phone cameras, we get a lot of
photos from outside salespeople in
the field

•We got this one recently as an e-mail
attachment with the request to
“interchange this.”

• While our technical sales staff is
well-practiced in the art of
investigation: we’re good, but we’re
not THAT good!

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BI-TORQ CSI!
• Don’t be “that guy” who just
sends pictures!

• Instead, here are the
essentials of what we need to
know to make this a successful
experience for you and your
customer . . .

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Help Us Help You!
HERE ARE THE THINGS THAT HELP US TO TURN
AROUND A QUOTATION THAT CAN LEAD TO A QUICK
ORDER
If for an EXISTING application:
• manufacturer and model number for interchange
• Pipeline size
• media going through the valve
• pressure and temperature
• end connections
• actuation type

Typical valve tag

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Help Us Help You!
AROUND A QUOTATION THAT CAN LEAD TO A
QUICK ORDER
If an NEW application:
• What does the customer want to accomplish?
• How will this automated valve fit within overall system?
• Pipeline size
• media going through the valve
• pressure and temperature
• end connections
• actuation type

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Help Us Help You!
AROUND A QUOTATION THAT CAN LEAD TO A
QUICK ORDER
If a RETROFIT application to a valve:
• actuation type
• size, make and model of valve OR
• use our handy dimensional worksheet OR
• send the valve in for us to design a mounting kit

Typical valve tag

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Product and Company Resources

PRINCIPLES OF ACTUATION

Valve Actuation
Application Sheets

•An ideal overview of the
answers you need to know
when sizing or selecting an
electric or pneumatic actuator
•available on-line at www.bitorq.com

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Some of what we DON’T do!
• Globe Valves for steam control (Fisher or
equal); highly-specialized

• Pressure relief valves

• Instrumentation valves

• Although we do provide “commodity”
manual valves in all materials of
construction, the majority of our valves are
made for automation. Because of the ISO
mounting pads and higher materials of
construction required for automation, we
generally are not as competitive in these
areas

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Product and Company Resources
THE BI-TORQ WEB SITE

•Complete PDF download section
•Wiring diagrams and IOMs
•Features and part number builds
•available on-line at www.bitorq.com

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Finally Done!

Questions and Answers

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!

BI-TORQ/BDI 2012

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