Valve service engineer.

[LVS]

Hi there,

Before i start i am not Promoting, selling, recruiting or a student!

Is there any demand for an independent valve service engineer.
I have been in the valve industry for 13 years since i left school. I would like to start my own company servicing and repairing valves. Any feedback would help.

 

[zdas04]

The company that does that sort of thing where I'm at (Oil & Gas in the Four Corners area of New Mexico, USA) started and has built a reputation in pneumatic control installation and maintenance. They sort of drifted from there to a PSV testing/repair certification, and finally to valve service. People think of them for "valves" and the company has been growing rapidly (and valve service is an increasing part of their business)

If a new guy opened a "Valve Service" company here he'd probably have a hard time building his reputation because people in this industry don't tend to think in terms of valve servicing. I beleive you'd have to start in either pneumatic installation/repair or PSV testing/service.

David

 

[gerhardl]

LVS,

Searcing google for valve servicing you will find a number of leads.

In my experience (you are probably located in the US, my location is Scandinavia, Europe) you can roughly divede valve services in 'branches' as follows:

Service for advanced process valves, including control valves, including offshore as a separate branch, including testing, including repair and grinding.

Service for actuators and control equipment, pneumatic and /or electric.

Service for more advanced or larger valves for water mains, hydroelectrical water main valves, turbines and pumps, including blasting and recoating, including valves and pumps for waste-water.

Leakage searching at plant/in field as separate branch?

Some companies are independent, supplying complete maintenance packages for total factories/installations. Some companies owned by valve (or pump) suppliers are supplying services to limited number of brands.

Conclusion: The market and competition exists. The rest is a question about location, your acces to resources and what you can offer competitivly for this market in your location, and if this will give you an acceptable payback.

You could try asking existing suppliers with service departments if they would be interested in outsourching or selling out their service/repair departmens (??)

 

[Ashereng]

The quick answer I think is yes.

If you will be a "one man" shop, what capabilities will you have? I think that will dictate what type of service contracts you will be able to get.

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