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October 01, 2009Sanmar Engineering Corporation Press Release: Inauguration of Xomox Sanmar Limited – Pacific Valves Division
September 21, 2009: Sanmar Engineering Corporation, a leading supplier of engineered valves in India and Crane Co., a diversified global manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CR) inaugurated its new power plant valve manufacturing facility in Viralimalai (near Tiruchirappalli ), India, today.
Sanmar Engineering Corporation and Crane Co. extended their existing 25 year old joint venture Xomox Sanmar Limited (investment 51% Sanmar Engineering and 49% Crane Co.) in 2008 to include the manufacture of Crane Energy’s Pacific brand of high pressure gate, globe and check valves.
A state of the art 30,000 sq. ft. plant has been commissioned in Viralimalai, Tamil Nadu, India. This plant manufacturers both manual and motorized high pressure gate and globe valves, non return check valves for India’s power sector and process industries, along with being a part of the global manufacturing network for Crane Energy.
To meet its economic growth targets, India is building larger power plants, above 100MW including the super-critical category, which will necessitate the use of high pressure and high temperature valves. Xomox Sanmar Limited – Pacific Valves Division will offer an extensive range of high pressure, low pressure and forged valves for use in captive power plants and utility power plants. “We are very happy to expand our existing joint venture with Crane. With this Joint Venture, India now has a world-class supplier for power plant valves,” said N. Sankar, Chairman, The Sanmar Group.
Pacific Valves, a division of Crane Energy Flow Solutions based in Long Beach, California, USA is a market leader in North America for high pressure power plant valves. Pacific Valves has been supplying these valves globally to both sub-critical and super-critical power plants and has one of the largest installed bases of C12A valves required for use in high pressure and high temperature applications. Vince Buffa, President of Crane Energy Flow Solutions, said, “We are excited to team up with Sanmar Engineering to offer our pressure seal valves to serve the growing demand for these products in India and is part of our initiative to expand our global manufacturing footprint.”
About Sanmar Engineering Corporation
Sanmar Engineering Corporation (SEC) is one of the largest manufacturers in India of engineered valves (Joint ventures with Crane, Fisher, Tyco); sealing systems (JV with Flowserve) and safety systems (JV with BS&B), serving the energy and process industries. SEC is part of the Sanmar Group which is a diversified group with business units managed under five industry segments -Chemicals, Specialty Chemicals, Shipping , Engineering and Metals
About Crane Co.
Crane Co. is a diversified global manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CR). One of its segments, Crane Fluid Handling, provides highly engineered products for fluid handling applications worldwide.