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AVK: helping leakage prevention – an holistic approach. The high cumulative cost of curing leakage, whether through equipment failure or a pipe-burst incident where the expense of interruption of supply to the consumer, road closure, excavation, repai...
AVK UK : ENJOYING A FRAMEWORK PARTNERSHIP WITH SOUTHERN WATER AVK UK supporting Southern Water’s environmental improvement and water quality schemes across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle Wight. AVK, a global leader in the manufacturer of ...
AVK in the UK recently secured an order for the supply of Glenfield Valves that will help London make the best use of its scarce water resources. The company supplied two DN1800 full bore metal seated Series 54 gate valves for Thames Water's Coppermill...
As Severn Trent's biggest water treatment works charged with the task of supplying the UK's second biggest city, Frankley WTW has a big job to do - and AVK UK is giving it a big helping hand. Well over £500,000-worth of AVK valves are now arriving at t...
WORLD GAS in Buenos Aires - 5th to 9th October 2009 During early October, AVK UK Ltd attended the World Gas Conference 2009 at the La Rural Exhibition and Conference Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. AVK UK Ltd exhibited as part of a joint missio...
“Major people-related initiatives made necessary by significant corporate/economic events….that demonstrate a positive impact on business performance.” They’re the kind of achievements that top UK business organisation the CBI looks for in the Managing...
The determination statements of the English and Welsh water companies make it clear that wastewater will be one of the main focuses of AMP5, the spending period that starts this year and runs until 2015. In anticipation of the increased demand for pens...
Since our initial report in last year’s Face to Face, AVK UK have been making great strides in turning its carbon reduction ‘to do’ list into reality. AVK’s quality and environment manager Donna O’Brien reports. The CLOEE monitoring tool from CarbonLo...
AVK Donkin has introduced new 25mm and 32mm (high capacity) sizes of its flow limitor (sometimes known as an emergency shut-off valve). It has also discontinued some sizes that are no longer ised and is actively considering adding others – all part of it...
National Grid has announced the award of its valves and fittings contract, which includes an increase in purchases from AVK. Worth more than £3m annually, the contract is for two years in the first instance, with an option for two twelve-month exte...
Essex & Suffolk Water is one of the utilities that appreciate the three unique attributes of AVK UK's Series 756 double eccentric butterfly valve; less weight, more strength and lower torque. The company is installing three DN1400 valves on the sucti...
AVK UK's latest order for its unique Series 777 Baurer, Parallel Slide Valve for the gas industry is 'top of the range' in more ways than one. At DN 900mm it is the second biggest size available and therefore a considerable investment, so the buyer has to...
As this edition of Face To Face went to press, AVK UK staff in Chesterfield were preparing to pack up and move 'lock, stock and barrel' three miles down the road to the company's new valve manufacturing facility following the handover of the new premises....
AVK UK was all set for Anglian cryptosporidium emergency When Anglian Water encountered elevated levels of cryptosporidium at its Pitsford Water Treatment Works near Northampton at the end of June, valve manufacturer AVK UK had the stock and service le...
AVK UK Ltd is pleased to announce the successful completion of the ISO14001 Accreditation for the remaining two UK manufacturing facilities - AVK Donkin in Chesterfield and AVK Manufacturing in Hyde. "This is a fantastic achievement and one that illustra...
Bryan Donkin Valves win the CBI Human Capital Award AVK Donkin last night (21st October) scooped the award as best in class at "Managing Change" at the CBI/Real Business Human Capital awards dinner at the London Marriot Hotel in Grosvenor Square. This...
Easing on down the carbon emissions road Donna O’Brien, quality and systems manager at Aqua-Gas Manufacturing, explains how the company has taken a significant initial step forward in understanding its carbon emissions and preparing for a carbon-restrict...
Valves and fittings supplier AVK UK has further enhanced its comprehensive product training programme to ensure that staff in all the customer-facing areas of the business have sufficient technical knowledge to respond satisfactorily to enquiries. "Cus...
Gas engineers and contractors across the UK have had practical input into AVK's new Donkin Series 158 under-pressure drilling valve, including extensive field trials in collaboration with the National Grid's Pipeline Maintenance Centre. The result is a fu...
Donkin Series 594 non-return valves are helping to ensure a consistent 25 mbar gas supply throughout the new Wembley Stadium. Because of the large number of locations where gas is needed for cooking and heating, the designers of the distribution system...
AVK is set to introduce a new IT platform across the Group - and the initial pilot is taking place here in the UK. Almost all the Group's operating companies (OCs) currently use one of the versions of the well-proven enterprise resource planning softwa...
Wolseley UK has been distributing AVK's products in the UK for more than a decade now and both companies claim the Number One spot in their respective fields, so it's perhaps no surprise that, like its partner, Wolseley too has judged that the time is rig...
A new outlet for AVK UK's Series 29/288 fire hydrant meets demands from the fire services and water utilities for an alternative to the traditional gunmetal type that is equally strong and durable. With a high copper content of around 88%, gunmetal o...
Donkin valves and mechanical fittings are the first products to be awarded the Gas Industry Standard (GIS) kitemark, confirming that they meet the new UK standards for gas utilities that have superseded the Transco specifications. The scope of the Donk...
Face to Face Summer 2009