SchuF celebrates 100 years as a designer and manufacturer of industrial valves

Frankfurt September 19, 2011 - Today SchuF Fetterolf a world leading designer of customized industrial valves announced the opening of celebrations to commemo-rate its one hundredth anniversary.

Established on September 9, 1911, in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, SchuF was established by Josef Frank and Ludwig Schwärtzel. The Group CEO and 3rd generation of the Frank family in the business Dr. Martin Frank commented:

"We could not have reached 100 years without the help of our employees present and past, our agents, our suppliers and above all our loyal customers. Thank you”.

The family owned business with design and manufacturing operations in Germany, Brazil, Ireland, India, and the United States, today employs over 400 staff and con-tinues to grow as chemical and refinery processes become more complex and re-quire more specialized valves that the company designs.

The company started with 2 employees and within a very short period had invented three valve types - the lift plug valve, the disc flush bottom outlet valve and the piston bottom outlet valve. These inventions had a significant impact on safety in the then nascent German chemical industry. As a result the company grew quickly and expanded internationally. Further inventions followed including an angle control valve, sampling valves, diverter valves and many customer requested valve designs. Today SchuF has 20 product lines, over 300,000 designs and has sold over 1 million valves.

To mark the 100 years, SchuF Fetterolf also announced today the formal launch of three new products - a fully piggable Globe valve under the name P-GlobeTM, a new sliding design of the highly successful swinging line blinding system called the Cam-SlideTM and a new lift plug valve to complement the firms first ever invention - the lift plug valve. This new isolation valve has been called the TruEPlugTM.

The Group Chairman Mr. Wolfgang Frank who joined the celebrations with em-ployees in Germany announced the establishment of two awards - the Dr. Josef Frank award for Project Excellence and the James Williams III (co-founder of Fette-rolf) award for Innovative Design. Along with a rolling party across all SchuF Fetterolf sites, celebrations will continue throughout the year and awards will be presented to the most deserving employees.

Asked how he saw the future of SchuF Fetterolf Mr. Wolfgang Frank commented:

"We could have grown much faster in the past two decades, but that would have been at the expense of some of our core principles - an innovative at-mosphere to work in, proven quality, and reliable products. We look forward confidently to the next 100 years"

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SchuF Fetterolf is a leading global supplier of speciality valves to the chemical, petrochemical, oil, gas and refining industries. The company was founded in 1911 by the inventor of the flush bottom outlet and lift plug valves – Josef Frank. Today SchuF Fetterolf employs 400 people (of which 80 are design engineers). Headquartered in Eppstein, Germany, SchuF has design and manufacturing facilities in Germany, Ireland, UK, USA, Brazil and India and sales and representative offices in over 65 countries.

SchuF produces a broad range of custom industrial valves and is a world leader in control and di-verter valves for PTA, Polymers, Offshore, Coal Gasification & Liquefaction and many chemical processes.

Roderick Stanley
SchuF Fetterolf
An der Guldenmühle 8-10,
65817 Eppstein, Germany
Tel.: +49 6198 571115
E-mail: rstanley@schuf.de

This release was published on openPR.