Pibiviesse Corp Profile

Company ProfilePIBIVIESSE S.r.l.

20014 NERVIANO (Milano) - ITALY - Via Bergamina, 24Phone +39 0331 408711 - Fax +39 0331 408802e-mail: [email protected] - www.pibiviesse.it

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Pibiviesse valves have been installed in the following countries:Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, Caspian sea area, China, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India, Indonesia, Iran.

Italy, Kazahstan, Libya, Malesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South

Korea, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam

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Dear Customer

We would like to thank you in advance for the time and the attention that

you will give us in reading our company profile.

We at PIBIVIESSE, one of the worlds leading providers of fluid and gas

control solutions, aim to put our deep knowledge in design and manu-

facture of high-performance on-off and control valves, to the service of

our customers and strive to be the most creative and efficient business

partner for the energy related industry.

At PIBIVIESSE, we are determined to meet and exceed the expectations

of our customers and shareholders, in so doing we are committed to the

prosperity of the people with whom we do business and that of the

countries in which we work.

Our work force is motivated and united by shared values and common

skills and while adhering to the highest standards of quality and ethics,

we will be pleased to provide you with our services, high value-added

products and know-how as briefly described in the following pages.

Welcome in PibiviesseThe Managing Director

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4THE COMPANY

Milestones

PIBIVIESSE was established in 1981 by three partners,

combining the forgemaster expertise with the experience in

valve design, manufacturing and marketing.

Their vision of the future was to design and manufacture

state-of-the-art valves designed to perform built to last

for the most demanding applications. Their commitment

was to follow a total quality concept, from quotation to

field service, without any compromise.

The Total Quality concept proved to be so successful that

the company rapidly became a world-class highly

appreciated soft and metal seated valves manufacturer, for

many applications in Oil & Gas and other related industries,

including Off-shore platforms and Sub-sea applications.

In 1985 and 1989 PIBIVIESSE carried out a series of

acquisitions of companies with a long experience in

machining ball valve components, in order to expand

manufacturing capacity.

In 1994 Watts Industries Inc. acquired PIBIVIESSE and the

new plant of more than 12,000 sq m (132,000 sq ft) covered

area was built in Nerviano, about 20 km north-west of

Milan, where the head office and main production activities

were transferred.

A new building of further 3,400 sq m (38,000 sq ft) was

added in 1997, to increase capacity for heavy duty

machining and valve assembly.

In 1998 CIRCOR International Inc, actual PIBIVIESSE parent

company , was spun-off from Watts Ind.

A second generation of proprietary technology valves has

been introduced in 2000, called CAGEBALL.

These revolutionary control valves, designed for extremely

difficult working conditions, did set a step change not only

in PIBIVIESSE but also in the flow control markets,

allowing combinations of valves sizes and flow conditions

well beyond industry standards.

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The Circor Group

Operators in the energy industry are continually requested

to increase production, operate at higher pressures, higher

temperatures, deeper waters and to deal with increasingly

corrosive fluids.

The valves which are vital components in the process, are

requested to perform critical functions in these demanding

conditions.

Meeting the highest quality standards and anticipating new

and future market demands, our mission at PIBIVIESSE is

Engineering the Future, supported by the latest

technologies we develop and provide new products tested

simulating the working conditions.

About 2% of the annual turnover is dedicated to R&D for

the development of new products and the improvement of

the existing range, implementing the newest technologies

so to provide our customers with the most advanced

solution at the best value.

Our vision of the future

CIRCORs business is split in four groups: Aerospace,Instrumentation, Thermal Fluid Controls Products and TheEnergy Products group. It operates through severalmanufacturing facilities which are located in the UnitedStates, Canada, Europe and the Peoples Republic ofChina.

PIBIVIESSE is part of the Energy Products group which isamong the top three producers of ball valves for the oil andgas markets worldwide and is composed primarily by thefollowing companies: KF Industries; KF Contromatics;PIBIVIESSE; KF Telford Valve and Specialties, MallardControls, Hydra seal and SKVC Valve.

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6PRODUCTS & APPLICATIONS

Product range

PIBIVIESSE designs and manufactures a wide range of high

performance manually operable, automated ON-OFF and

Control Ball Valves for any kind of fluid handled in the oil,

gas, water, steam and power generating industry.

The basic ball valve design is of bolted construction style

which simplifies field service and maintenance. Our product

line is then completed with our top entry ball valves that

can be easily serviced without removing the valve from the

line and with our fully welded line that is typically used for

pipeline/buried application or for sub-sea lines .

Trunnion mounted balls permit ease of operation, minimizing

the operating torque and reducing seat seal wear.

All our products are available in a wide selection of

materials ranging from Low Temperature Carbon Steel up to

Inconel 625, Incoloy 825 and more.

Trunnion mounted ON-OFF ball valves

Side entry-bolted body, top entry and fully welded are

available with Metal or Soft seats. Specific designs have

been developed for HIPPS to SIL3, Sub-sea, Cryogenic,

High Temperature, Slurry/Erosive applications in addition

to Three-way ball valves and Custom made ball valves.

ON-OFF ball valvesSizes from 1/2 to 60Pressure ratings from ANSI 150 to ANSI 2500-4500

from API 2000 to API 15000Temperat. range from -196C (-320F) to +800C (+1472F)

Trunnion mounted CAGEBALL control ball valves

Specifically designed to handle very high flow rates or very

high differential pressures our exclusive and patented

CAGEBALL and HYPER CAGEBALL concepts have been

integrated with the basic features of our trunnion mounted

On-Off ball valves.

CAGEBALL control ball valvesSizes from 1 to 60Pressure ratings from ANSI 150 to ANSI 2500-4500

from API 2000 to API 15000Temperat. range from -196C (-320F) to +800C (+1472F)


7Oil & Gas industry

LNG & GTL - Cryogenics

Gas transmission and distribution

Power industry and steam generation

Petrochemical industry

Water transmission & desalination plants

Applications


8After more than 20 years of experience in engineering and

manufacturing of side entry and top entry ball valves for

severe applications, PIBIVIESSE has developed the most

advanced line of rotary control ball valves with the

proprietary CAGEBALL design, in accordance with

ISA S75, IEC 534.

The ball has an integrated patented trim to eliminate or

minimize the hydro or aerodynamic flow control

disturbances. It is based on a changeable internal cage

which divides the pressure drop in stages. The attenuating

plates are an integral part of a

replaceable cartridge and are

offset by an optimally designed

angle to obtain a number of

significant control advantages,

where noise and high frequency

vibrations are almost eliminated.

This advanced trim allows to

control bidirectional flow. The Cage Trim is inserted into a

PIBIVIESSE High Performance rugged trunnion mounted

valve. Thus all the field proven valve reliability features

remain as standard.

CAGEBALL control ball valves are particularly

recommended any time where noise reduction, cavitation

control, erosion, hydrate formation, plugging risk are

present or handling of very large flow rates is a challenge

for conventional valves.

Another important feature is that

one and the same valve can do the

duty of two or even three valves.

Just imagine how potential savings

are available in view of building

only one automation loop to take

care of the application.

These control valves product lines can be further

personalized with: Integrated down stream Flow Restrictor

- Special silencer trim - Expanded flow area in valve outlet

for gas flow control

THE CAGEBALL TECHNOLOGY

A proprietary technology


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PROJECT MANAGEMENT & ENGINEERING

Project management

Engineering the future - Design capabilities

From quotation to field service; this simple sentence means

that PIBIVIESSE commitment is to provide its clients with

products of the highest quality, on-

time at competitive price. Customer

satisfaction is our main objective and

the same high level of attention is

given for any phase of the product life;

just from quotation to field service.

The Contract Management team is

there to work in close co-operation with the client and

ensures that each project is accurately defined and planned

since the early stages and that the plan is continually tracked

during all the design, production, assembly and testing phases.

By understanding what the client wants

to achieve and what their expectations

are, the Contract Management team,

coordinating and interfacing with

production departments, can help

finding the best solutions and fix the

basis of a successful project completion

in terms of performance and delivery time, while keeping

informed on the progresses all parties involved.

PIBIVIESSE is committed to continually develop and

manufacture new and better on-off and control valves which

will meet the increasingly stringent demands of the energy

and process industries. The Companys commitment to

Research and Development not only ensures that the most

up-to-date technology is used, but also that our clients can

count on a reduction of their long term operational costs, due

to the long and trouble-free life of our products. We have an

unrivalled in-house design capability for safe, reliable and

state-of-the-art products. We have developed our own systems,

designs and equipment and possess the intellectual property

rights and patents for many products and systems. When

Research and Development require extra competences,

PIBIVIESSE works in cooperation with external research centers

and universities, as the Politecnico di Milano, to study on special

projects, on materials and on behaviour in critical conditions.

Example of this cooperation has been the development of

SimOne, our proprietary simulation program for control valves

sizing and valve behavior prediction.

PIBIVIESSE ball valves are designed in accordance with the

industry standards (e.g. API 6D/6A, ASME VIII Div.2, ASME

B16.34, BS 5351, etc). For critical applications we make use of

FEA based on ASME VIII Appendix 4 recommendations.


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Process knowledge

The companys laboratory has the capability of undertaking

all the conventional dynamic and static mechanical,

hydraulic and pneumatic tests, together with new tests and

new equipment developed in house to simulate more

accurately actual field conditions.

Special efforts have been devoted in predicting and simulating

events that may occur especially during the start-up phases

of a plant, like overpressures, overtemperatures, external

loads, wrong operations and any critical situation that can

cause unpredicted stress and therefore damage to the valve.

PIBIVIESSEs success stories of thousands of installations

worldwide operating in all working conditions greatly helps

designers in making profit of the experience gained in

practical applications and emergency situations.

Data acquisition and analysis, using the most modern

equipment, provides the basis for continuing research into the

dynamic behaviour of the whole valve structure and the

influence of each component upon that behaviour.

Information gained is used both to develop and improve existing

components and to develop new ones.

Special testing facilities:

Low temperature: down to 196C (-321F)

High pressure: up to 160 Mpa (22,500 psi)

High temperature: up to 800C (1500F)

Bending: valve sizes up to 48 900#

Slurry loop: sand concentrations to API 14D - API 6AV1

Fire safe: API 6FA, BS6755, API607

Sub-sea simulation: down to 500 m


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Production planning also includes the control of

documentation at every stage of the process toward the

finished product. All this work is designed to enable us to

live up to our overall quality target, namely zero defects,

because our valves are designed to perform built to last.

In the production process, every stage is planned to produce

quality and the quality is then inspected. The easier a

product is to produce, the smaller the risk of defects in

production. Simplicity is therefore included as a target in all

development and design work at PIBIVIESSE.

However, the quality of the finished product is also affected

to a large degree by the way production is planned, and by

the way in which each individual activity is planned.

The operators play a vital role in this area. It is often their

know-how, experience and creativity that form the basis of

the improvements and simplifications which result in higher,

more consistent quality.

Designed to perform, built to last

PRODUCTION


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Our sub-suppliers quality is just as important as our own.

This means that their quality, and the work they do to

improve the level of quality still further, is also a matter of

concern to us.

We therefore aim to establish long-term and close

partnerships with our sub-suppliers. We like to think to our

sub-suppliers as partners with a joint aim, nevertheless their

performances are monitored and recorded on a regular basis

that, combined with our frequent audits, give us the

guidelines to enhance and grow the overall products quality

and reliability.

As a result, we have only selected and quality oriented sub-

suppliers, to whom we demand to actively participate in our

work and thereby develop with us.

Sub-suppliers

Depending on the application and on the valve function in

the plant, a range of base materials are used to

manufacture the valve components:

Carbon steel and low temperature carbon steel (C-Mn)

Low alloy steel (C-Mn-Ni-Cr-Mo)

13Cr and 13Cr/4Ni stainless steel

Austenitic stainless steel (series 300 stainless, e.g.316SS)

Duplex and Superduplex stainless steel

6Mo austenitic stainless steel

Ni & NiCu alloys

Ti alloys

All raw materials and commercial components of our

products, unless clearly identified, are sourced either in

Italy or within the European Union.

All materials, without exceptions, before entering into our

production process are inspected according to our stringent

quality control procedures, as dictated in our Quality

Control Manual.

Raw materials


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In-house machining capacity reaches 60 in turning, milling

and boring and 72 ball turning and grinding. All these

operations are carried out by means of very-high precision

machinery and skilled operators, to guarantee the design

tolerances (0.01 mm) necessary for the valves to deal with

high pressures and high temperatures for many years.

Constant attention is devoted to keep all the equipment and

machinery at the maximum efficiency level, and the

personnel is continuously trained and motivated to make the

maximum profit of the advanced technologies used to reach

and maintain that high precision and high quality

manufacturing needed.

PIBIVIESSE valves have gained an optimum reputation on

the market thanks also to the high-precision and high-

quality manufacturing process.

Machining


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Welding is another qualifying step of the manufacturing

process. The Fully welded valve types are assembled by

means of an unique narrow-gap process, that ensures

welding of thick materials (up to 300 mm), with a minimum

of heat input and therefore without alteration of the

metallurgical properties of the base material.

Internal cladding with corrosion-resistant alloys is available

too and is carried out considering the application and

the kind and temperature of the fluid/gas to be processed.

Made by means of submerged arc strip or wire, cladding

with High Nickel Alloys is offered as an alternative for those

products where solid High Nickel Alloys would make the

products very expensive or totally unfeasible.

Welding and cladding

During the assembly operations, all tolerances and matching

between parts are accurately controlled, and o-

rings/gaskets are inserted in order to ensure perfect and

safe seal on body and trunnion.

PIBIVIESSE ball valves have been subjected to extremely

severe special tests, far in excess of the requirements of the

API and ANSI Standards. A large number of valves have

been subjected to enhanced tests. Special tests such as

high pressure N2/He shell and seat test, high temperature

leak and operational tests have been performed on

customer request by independent laboratories in Italy, UK

and Holland. Some high pressure ball valves, of standard

trim and design up to 20-1500 lbs size, have been

subjected to an extremely severe test program by Soba-

Qualitest TUV in Holland.

Assembly and testing


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For PIBIVIESSE, succeeding in an increasingly dynamic

environment means doing so in the presence of global

competitors and with a core technology that is migrating

from the industrial western countries to low-labour-cost

countries at a very rapid rate.

We must combine the core values of Total Quality with the

intrinsic entrepreneurial values of creativity, innovation,

and diversity in order to develop a renewed competitive

edge.

More than 20 years in the business have taught us a great

deal about fluid control and the needs of different types of

customers. This is why we have been able to introduce a

vast number of pioneering technologies and solutions.

Innovation, of course, is not an end in itself, it is a mean to

succeed. That is why we only use proven technologies,

components and methods. Our solutions are put through

rigorous testing programs again and again.

To obtain certifications for us from the worlds most

prestigious standards organizations is a must.

Quality is a mentality which is translated in facts through a

rigorous and methodic application of rules and procedures

that give clear instructions and measurable results.

Incentive programs for On-Time Deliveries and on Non-

Conformity reduction, are in place throughout the company

and are meant to reward the efforts spent to produce

quality all day, every day.

Only quality can achieve quality - The Total Quality concept

Totally in compliance with European Regulations, caring

about the environment, the health of our personnel and

users, is another aspect of quality and an important pillar on

which we base our company development.

We therefore make a real effort to use non-toxic materials

and processes, and also constantly strive to help improve

the working environment, and the equipments that are used

in workplaces, to protect the people working in it.

The overall target is to safeguard our people, the

environment and while complying with our customers

requirements, to enhance the quality and safety of the

workplace in which our products are produced and used.

Health, Safety and the Environment

QUALITY & SAFETY


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The high consideration given by management to quality and

its control has been one of the main factors to determine

the success of PIBIVIESSE. All our manufacturing operations

are covered by a quality assurance program, which has been

audited and qualified in accordance with:

ISO 9001 - 2000 & API Q1

API 6D - ISO 14313

API 6A - ISO 10423

API 17D

ASME sect III

PED 97/23/EC

ATEX 94/9/EC

PIBIVIESSE has been authorised to use the API 6A, 6D, 17D

monograms and to manufacture its products with CE logo in

accordance with Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC

since June 2001. The full production range is therefore

available with CE marking and ATEX certificate of

conformity.

Quality assurance system

PIBIVIESSE has been audited and approved by many of the

major worldwide Engineering Companies, Contractors, Oil

Companies, Oil and Gas Pipeline Authorities and is

supplying valves for many different and demanding service

conditions for off-shore and on-shore applications.

Please contact our offices for specific references and approvals.

References and approvals


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PIBIVIESSEs after-sales quality

GLOBAL PRESENCE

Even if quality is normally associated with the

characteristics of our products, our commitment to quality

does not end with the delivery, wherever in the world.

As PIBIVIESSE sees it, quality is a responsibility throughout

the life of our products which also includes the transfer of

experience, service and the supply of spare parts to our

After Sales Partners in the world.

To ensure that this is the case, we are constantly training

our staff in every area of the world, where the lack of

knowledge could adversely affect our opportunity to act as

support and problem-solvers for our customers.

For PIBIVIESSE, quality is not simply the quality of what we

do ourselves, it is also the quality of what our customers

produce using our methods and products.

A world of servicing

PIBIVIESSE can count on a worldwide valve repair and

servicing network to guarantee all of his customers a

professional, competent and quick response to any site

request. PIBIVIESSEs Authorised Repair Workshops are

qualified companies that have been selected in various

areas of the world to work on our products and their valve

technicians have been trained on PIBIVIESSE products.

Dirt, sand, debris, welding slags, rods, sticks, and/or a

great variety of foreign matters can be left in the pipeline

during construction and the same can become a very

serious problem for valves during either commissioning

and/or start-up. In case this situation arises we are

requested to evaluate and fix the problem as soon as

efficiently possible.

Personnel that contact the client are qualified engineers

with proven field experience and fully trained on our

products.

Engineering the future to provide products

Designed to perform , built to last


Pibiviesse valves have been installed in the following countries:Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, Caspian sea area, China, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India, Indonesia, Iran.

Italy, Kazahstan, Libya, Malesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South

Korea, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam

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Company ProfilePIBIVIESSE S.r.l.

20014 NERVIANO (Milano) - ITALY - Via Bergamina, 24Phone +39 0331 408711 - Fax +39 0331 408802e-mail: [email protected] - www.pibiviesse.it

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