Recent Technology News Back Issues
No.34 Winter 2018
【Customer Solution Feature】● Greetings

President & CEO

Toshikazu Takisawa● Introduction to Valqua Technology News No. 34 Winter 2018	● CommentarySenior Executive Officer

Director of Corporate Research and Development GroupASME PVP 2016-Awarded Paper

Ｈ＆Ｓ BUSINESS GROUP

Mutsuo Aoki

Akira Muramatsu● Technical Papers

Evaluation of the Mechanical Behaviors of Pipe Flange Connections with PTFE Gaskets Subjected to Bending Moment	Corporate Research and Development Group Product Development Division Ⅰ Koji Sato		
University of Hiroshima Toshiyuki Sawa
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Riichi Morimoto		Numazu College Takashi Kobayashi		Corporate Research and Development Group Product Development Division Ⅰ Yuta Motono		
Performance Evaluation of Improved EPDM Material under High-temperature Environments
Corporate Research and Development Group Product Development Division Ⅰ Ken Suzuki
CHUBU Electric Power Co.,Inc. Shinichi Matsuda
		CHUBU Electric Power Co.,Inc. Takuya Sugimura		
Guidelines on Gasket Selection, Selection Troubles, and Countermeasures
Sales Group Technical Solution Division Asuka Matsushita● Contribution

Considerations for Tool Selection and Installation of Fastening Bolts for Flanges with Large Nominal Diameters
TORQUE SYSTEM Co.,Ltd. Managing Director Shinichi Kitahara● Business Introduction

H&S Demonstration Car● Product introduction

Improved Seal Paste
Corporate Research and Development Group

Ｈ＆Ｓ Business Group

Hajime Nonogaki

Product Development Division Ⅰ

Masato Hamade

Summer 2018

Multi-Purpose Gland Packing for Chemical Applications
Corporate Research and Development Group

Product Development Division Ⅰ

Corporate Research and Development Group

Product Development Division Ⅰ

Syuuzi Sugawa
Masato Hamade●Recent Technology News Back Issues

No.33 Summer 2017

No.35 【Customer Solutions Special】● Greetings	● Technical Papers

Senior Excutive Officer

Director of Corporate Research and Development Group

Mutsuo Aoki

Unsuitable Usage Conditions of Gaskets and CountermeasuresTechnical Solution Division Toshihiko Enishi
Flange Connection with Metallic Flat Gasket
Corporate Research and Development Group Development Division Kouji Satou
SHINKO PLANTECH CO., LTD. Yasuharu Kondou
Professor Emeritus at the University of Hiroshima Toshiyuki Sawa
Corporate Research and Development Group Satomi Takahashi
Sales Group

Evaluation of Basic Sealing Properties of the Pipe
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Troubles While Mounting Gaskets and Countermeasures
Sales Group Technical Solution Division Satoshi Akiyama	An Introduction and How to Use Seal Quick SearcherTM（SQS） –Elastomer Version–	Corporate Research and Development Group Development Division Akira Ueda
Seal Training Center (STC) –	● ContributionManagement of Tightening of Flanged Fasteners at Plants
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Mizushima Plant Mechanical Group 2
Maintenance and Engineering Department Riichi Morimoto●Recent Technology News Back Issues
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Ｈ＆Ｓ BUSINESS GROUP Akira Muramatsu

No.32 Spring 2017
【The 90th Anniversary Special Edition】●Greeting	President & CEOToshikazu Takisawa●Greetings upon the Publication of the 90th Anniversary Special Issue	Senior Excutive Officer Director of Corporate Research and Development Group Mutsuo Aoki
●Upon the Publication of the 90th Anniversary Special Issue

Editorial board of the 90th anniversary special issue of Valqua Technology News

●Transition of Valqua’s technologies and customer value

Looking back at the history of Valqua Technology News and Valqua Review
Senior Fellow Takahito Nishida●Contribution Congratulations on the 90th Anniversary Special Issue of Valqua’s Establishment
Professor Emeritus at the University of Hiroshima●Contribution Evolving Gasketing and Sealing Technologies
Professor at Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Numazu College

Toshiyuki Sawa

Takashi Kobayashi●Contribution Congratulations on the 90th Anniversary Year of the Founding

NIPPON VALQUA INDUSTRIES, LTD.

former Managing Director (Technical Manager)

Takao Iwane●Contribution Congratulations on the Publication of the 90th Anniversary Special Issue of Valqua Technology NewsNIPPON VALQUA INDUSTRIES, LTD.

former Managing Director (Technical ･ Business development)●Contribution Memories of My Tenure as CTO
Yoshiaki MoriHiroyuki Kuroda

NIPPON VALQUA INDUSTRIES, LTD. former CTO●Technical Papers Types and Application of Filler-added PTFE Materials
Corporate Research and Development GroupDevelopment DivisionHigh Performance Plastics Development Division

Youichiro Wada

●Technical Papers Accuracy and Mold Direction of PTFE Products
Corporate Research and Development Group Development Division High Performance Plastics Development Division
Technical Service Section No.3 Shigeko Kawai
Corporate Research and Development Group Development Division High Performance Plastics Development Division
Technical Service Section No.3 Nobuyuki Ota●Technical Papers Introduction and Utilization of Seal Quick SearcherTM（SQS）– Gasket Version –

Sales Group

Technical Solution Division

Toshihiko Enishi●Technical Papers Causes of and Countermeasures for Allophone Trouble in a Piston Seal System for Cylinders
Corporate Research and Development Group

Development Division●Technical Papers Sticking Troubles of O-Rings and Countermeasures
Corporate Research and Development Group

Development Division

Kenichi Takahashi
Masanori Okazaki●Technical Papers Evaluation of the Bolted Flange Connection with PTFE-blended Gasket under High-temperature and Long-term condition
Corporate Research and Development GroupSummer 2018
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Development Division

Kouji Satou●VALQUA’s Technical History●Recent Technology News Back Issues

From Nippon Valqua Industries, Ltd. to“VALQUA, LTD.”We will continue to globalize by engaging not only in manufacturing but also in value
creation in products, events and human relationships. We will transform into“a value-creation company through products, events and humans”.
To reflect this determination, we will change our company name from Nippon Valqua
Industries, Ltd. to the new company name“VALQUA, LTD.”as of October 1, 2018.

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