 size and type, including check and ball valves, gate valves, and globe valves. Our vertically integrated environment allows our team to perform operations that may probably be outsourced by competing companies in Huston.
We make sure that all our valve technicians have received both basic as well as advanced safety training. Our field services technicians are also updated with the latest techniques and go through all the mandatory safety training by the Greater Huston Area Safety Council.
Standard Valve cares about its employees, which is why every one of our valve repair technicians isn’t just equipped to ensure their safety but is also fully insured. The insurance protects them in the event of an accident in addition to our clients.
We also have a seasoned team of customer service professionals who work with clients to ensure that their valves are repaired and replaced on time. Furthermore, they are available to answer questions and provide estimates based on the scope of work described. We also work to ensure that there is always a cache of spare parts available so that work on replacing or repairing a valve can proceed without a hiccup.
Standard Valve provides both in-house repair and in-field repair services, both of which are tailored to our clients’ needs.
We have excellent in-shop or in-house repair capabilities, which include our ability to repair just about any type or size globe, gate check, or ball valves. We have large machine tools, with cranes weighing over 15-tons, allowing us the capability of testing the largest valves across many industries. We can repair and re-test multiple valves like the BWE valves.
Having a vertically integrated shop environment allows us to perform routine operations that other valve service companies may probably not be able to do. In fact, many outsource this part of the job. Our in-house capabilities ensure that the job can be performed quickly and in the most cost-effective manner imaginable. We have staff engineers who, along with authorizations and alliances, in addition to our partnership with top valve manufacturers, ensure that we have the technical expertise to pull off any job across Huston, Texas.
As part of its valve engineering package, Standard Valve also operates state-of-the-art valve fire testing capability. The enclosure allows us to perform testing according to ISO, API, or any other specification identified by the customer. The testing is closely monitored in a control room and controlled by a team that ensures the tests are carried out correctly. The fire test control software and video cameras installed in the facility ensure that the tests are recorded for the convenience of our clients.
Why Choose Us Over Other Valve Repair shops?
One of the reasons why we are the valve repair shop of choice for many businesses in the industry is because our certified technicians have undergone extensive training. The training allows our technicians to provide a fast and reliable solution while maximizing the equipment’s lifecycle.
Our team can service all types of industrial valves, which include pressure & safety relief valves, API and ANSI pipeline valves, instrumentation, etc. We can also repair valve actuation, electric hydraulic actuators, and valve gear operators. All of this can be handled at our state-of-the-art facility.
Standard Valve prides itself on providing one of the fastest response times to in-field repairs. Our team responds to your request for repairs in the shortest time and in an emergency if needed. We also have many common components on hand which makes replacements faster and more efficient.
Our team of certified experts have been providing technical services for over a decade. That’s why they have the experience needed to address most issues in the shortest time. That often means little downtime compared to hiring any other service.
Standard Valve has established a reputation for being equipped to handle any issue, regardless of its nature. Whether you have a minor problem that needs urgent attention or a major problem that requires a part to be replaced, our team can handle it for you.
Our team is equipped with the very best equipment in the industry. Plus, they are updated with the latest techniques and receive safety training which enables them to handle anything.
We make it a point to charge reasonably for our services. The prices quoted, for the most part, reflect the nature of the work that may follow and the price of parts that may need to be replaced. Regardless, our services are priced competitively, making us the best choice for businesses of all types and sizes.
Standard Valve employs a highly knowledgeable and technically skilled customer service team that works with clients. Regardless of the size or type of your business or the resulting fault, your account manager is with you every step of the way. The account manager also offers advice and other information that business owners or managers may need to make the right decision.
• Almost 90% of valves that are discarded or written off as being non-repairable can be reconditioned for a fair price.
• Businesses can save as much as 60% compared to buying a new valve(s).
• Using a reconditioned valve can help reduce extensive and expensive modification needed to pipework to accommodate a new valve.
• Delivery can be made in a couple of days instead of weeks.
• Reconditioning helps to reduce time and cost for a business by reducing a plant’s downtime.
We provide you with certified and excellent workmanship to ensure that your reconditioned valves perform optimally, if not as good as new ones. We recondition safety valves or any other type in a myriad of sectors. The majority of work is carried out in one of our workshops, but we can also arrange for on-site reconditioning if possible.
Do you have a question about our industrial valve repair service? Do you need to get a quote or want us to hook you up with an account manager? Get in touch with us today over the phone or by sending us a message. Our team will assist you in every way possible.My name is R.J. Lehmann, and I am editor-in-chief and senior fellow with the International Center for Law & Economics. ICLE is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that works with a roster of more than 50 academic affiliates and research centers from around the globe to develop and disseminate academic output and build the intellectual foundation for rigorous, economically grounded public policy.
I am a recent addition to the ICLE staff. My own background is that I have spent the past 17 years as a journalist and public-policy analyst specializing in the business of insurance. That includes running the insurance policy program at the R Street Institute, which I co-founded in 2012.
The COVID-19 outbreak has triggered unprecedented interruption in the operations of businesses across the country and around the world. While roughly 37 percent of U.S. businesses maintain insurance policies to cover the loss of business income due to direct physical damage to a business property, such policies are not designed to insure revenue loss resulting from a pandemic, even where closure is required by a civil authority order. Indeed, many policies contain explicit endorsements clarifying that viruses and bacteria are excluded as causes for business interruption and loss-of-use coverages.
Earlier this year, Congress sought to address the disruption caused by COVID-19 through the Paycheck Protection Program and there have been various efforts to extend further relief to affected employers and employees. But it is understandable that many seek a more permanent solution and look to insurance markets as offering the framework to provide it.
I agree entirely with the analysis that the pandemic has highlighted a massive protection gap in commercial insurance products. I also agree that it is a problem that almost certainly calls for a governmental solution. I would, however, raise the threshold question of whether insurance is actually the best means to accomplish the public policy goals in question.
Insurance is a system of risk transfer, not a system of economic relief. Even if private insurers could provide this coverage—on their own or with government support—it is not clear their incentives would align with public health goals or with the aims members of Congress likely have in mind.
I would urge the subcommittee and Congress generally to proceed deliberatively before erecting structures that may not prove to be well-suited to the crisis we are currently experiencing, much less unforeseen future crises whose nature and scope we cannot know. In sum, do not legislate for the next pandemic when we are still in the midst of dealing with the current one.
I. Are Pandemics Insurable?
In the business of insurance, there are certain general characteristics that determine whether it is possible, in theory, to insure a given risk. These include having a large number of similarly exposed individuals and having losses that are reasonably predictable. A textbook example of an uninsurable risk would be intentional acts, such as arson. You could not transfer to an insurer the risk that you will burn down your own home, because that risk is fully within your control.
Business interruption caused by a pandemic is not uninsurable in the same sense that intentional arson is uninsurable. There were insurance products available to cover loss of business income due to viral contagion before COVID-19 hit our shores, although clients’ interest in those products was reportedly fairly limited. There are still products that offer such coverage now, although the price of coverage has gone up significantly. On the micro level, for any given insurer and any given insured, viral business interruption is an insurable risk.
The problem is at the macro level. There is only a limited amount of capital that insurers would be willing to devote to a risk like pandemics. Some insurers will write some coverage. They might, for instance, cover a restaurant’s risk of food spoilage resulting from an extended shutdown. But they will not and should not gamble their entire balance sheets. And the capacity that the global insurance and reinsurance industry would ever be willing to devote to this risk cannot possibly match its unique scale.
In this macro sense, for a risk to be insurable, it must be possible to