Everyone in the business of manufacturing, from parts to finished products, searches for ways to gain greater value from their efforts. Whether it’s a way to get finished products to customers faster, with less effort or with more choices, manufacturers continuously strive for a way to do more, use less or a combination of both. Valve ball manufacturers are no different.



Ball valves are used in an enormous number of industries, equipment and processes you see every day. This includes being a vital component in important equipment used by the aerospace industry, petroleum industry, mining industry and even the military. The demand for valve balls has never been greater, as product designers continue to find new ways for valve balls to enhance the performance of their ball valves by allowing them to function more efficiently, more effectively or better in some other way.

And the fact that the quality of valve balls and valve seats has improved over time has increased product designers willingness to incorporate them in product designs. This is especially true because special coatings, like chrome carbide, tungsten carbide and nickel boron can now be used as an encasing for valve balls. This allows them to not only last longer and operate more effectively, but they can be used in more severe-duty and high pressure applications than ever before. Customers, including ball valve manufacturers, continuously increase their precision requirements on the manufacturer. When quality is poor, these customers are burdened with equipment down time or faulty end products.

To make sure that the end products perform as best possible, valve ball manufacturers need to be capable of producing valve ball and valve seats as precise as can be. This makes it ever so important that valve ball manufacturers have the necessary tools and equipment on site to keep up with the requirements. In addition to product offerings, customers also look to the manufacturing processes, like DK Machine’s Component Mating System, to ensure that the valve balls and valve seats they receive meet or exceed what is needed. This allows the ball and seat to be assembled in valves and pass testing the first time.

Like most businesses, valve ball manufacturers can further accommodate customers in a number of ways. They can increase the quantity of output by increasing the number of machines on the plant floor and with the use of automated equipment. If a company has the capital to do this, this is a straightforward way to increase capacity. Another way to better service customers is to increase the options of output a given machine can generate. In the valve ball industry this could mean an adaptation of a Component Mating System to manufacture valve balls more accurately and efficiently. These solutions also help manufacturers decrease their turnaround times, which gives an even greater increase in value to customers.

Manufacturers in all industries are always on the lookout for ways to increase their value to current and future customers, because customers continue to expect more from manufacturers. When a manufacturer finds a way to offer customers more, whether increased capacity, increased options or shortened turnaround times, they are finding ways to keep customers happy, which means they are finding ways to keep customers.