Telephone: +1-416-361-7030
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23rd, 2017

FOURTH VALVE WORLD AMERICAS EXPO & CONFERENCE A RESOUNDING SUCCESS!
Houston, TX—The fourth staging of Valve World Americas Expo & Conference organized by
KCI Publishing Corporation and Messe Düsseldorf North America was held on June 20th and21st at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. There were a total of4,141 attendees for the entire event, including nearly 450 conference delegates.
The successful two-day event was attended by professionals from all over the world
including Canada, the United States, Europe, India and more. These international delegateswere a great mix of Valve Subject Matter Experts, Procurement Managers, Piping Engineersand Materials Specialists, including representatives from such influential companies asFluor, The Dow Chemical Company, Jacobs Engineering, Shell and many others.
Held at the George R. Brown Convention Center, the event was well-attended by visitors
who enjoyed walking the exhibition floor and speaking with knowledgeable exhibitors.
Visitors and exhibitors alike were able to network and obtain quality leads. In total, over
300 companies exhibited as part of the event. Also located in the heart of the Expo Floor
were the two speakers’ Corner stages, which hosted presenters who discussed a variety oftopics and performed live demonstrations including Partial Stroke Actuator Devices,
Dynamic Gasket Recovery to Eliminate Bolted Joint Leaks, Drill & Tap Demo, Test Stand
Demo and How to Use Sealant Injection on a Valve.
The conference, which ran concurrently with the exhibition, began each day with plenary
lectures given by representatives from The Dow Chemical Company, Emerson Automation
Solutions, United Valve, A.W. Chesterton, Fluor, Bray International and The American
Petroleum Institute (API). Conference sessions were filled with interested delegates whochallenged the speakers with educated and thoughtful questions and many in-depth
discussions followed. It was thrilling to see industry professionals sharing ideas andcollaborating on important industry topics such as castings & materials, maintenance &repair, supply chain management, fugitive emissions, control valve reliability predication,
valve design, cryogenics, actuation & automation, performance & validation and partial
stroke testing. In total there were 14 different workshops with approximately 60 individual
workshop presentations.
Additionally on June 19th, the day before the conference officially began, six informative
courses were held on the following topics: Valve Essentials, Fugitive Emissions, Pump
Basics, Grow Your Career in the Valve Industry, Social Media in the Valve Industry and Fluid
Sealing Association Short Courses. Each of these courses were filled with interested
participants who learned a lot from each of the sessions.
The Valve World Americas Expo & Conference team would like to thank the Conference
Chairman, Mr. Bill Patrick, The Dow Chemical Company; Conference Co-Chair Mr. Gobind

Khiani, Fluor Canada; and the steering committee for all their hard work in creating aninteresting and educational conference program.
Valve World Americas would also like to take the opportunity to recognize the support ofour main event sponsors: Bonney Forge, Bray, Crane, DistributionNow, Emerson, Metso,
MRC Global and Velan, as well as the conference supporters: The American Petroleum
Institute (API), the Fluid Sealing Association (FSA) and the Society of Piping Engineers(SPED).
Please look for a full retrospective of the event including photos in the August issue of ValveWorld Americas.
For information about the 2019 Valve World Americas Expo & Conference please contact:2019 Exhibition information:
Josh Gillen
Office: +1-416-361-7030
Email: j.gillen@kci-world.com
2019 Conference information:
Sarah Bradley
Office: +1-416-361-7030
Email: s.bradley@kci-world.com