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Russian Domestic Valve Makers Struggle to Retool, Upgrade Standards as Industry Restructures

Production by domestic manufacturers dropped 4.5 percent in the second half of 2008 over the same period in 2007, according to a report issued annually by Russia’s Scientific-Industrial Association of Valve Manufacturers (NPAA). That trend continued throughout the first half of 2009 though NPAA will not release specific figures until yearend. The volume of imports, meanwhile, is soaring.
In 2008, domestic producers focused mostly on the manufacture of steel gate valves, ball valves, electric actuators, steel check valves and cast-iron gate valves, according to NPAA. Steel back-pressure valves (valve gates) and steel check valves were produced in the highest volume.

Monday 7 September, 2009 10:41 PM

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