CLA-VAL Know-How

Since 1936, CLA-VAL has been a leading manufacturer of automatic control valves, serving Waterworks, Buildings/Industrial, Fire Protection, Aviation Fuelling and Marine customers throughout the world.

Our commitment to excellence and continuous improvement is demonstrated in each valve we produce and in the many new products we introduce to the marketplace each year. 

CLA-VAL commits to providing the highest quality automatic control valves at fair prices and deliveries in line with our customers’ requirements.

CLA-VAL commits to using ethical business practices with our customers, vendors, employees and other people with whom we come into contact.

CLA-VAL commits to employing the best possible resources to provide our customers with ongoing improvements, advances and new concepts in our product offering.

CLA-VAL commits to employing environmentally appropriate technology in all of our business activities.

By having on-site foundries, CLA-VAL is able to provide castings in over 50 different alloys, making our product offering one of the most extensive in the valve industry.

It also allows us to respond more quickly to our customers' unique requirements. 

A small sample of the wide variety of materials our foundries produce include the following:

• Ductile iron
• Cast steel
• Stainless steel
• Monel
• Nickel aluminium bronze
• Naval bronze
• Super austenitic stainless steel
• Super suplex stainless steel
• Titanium
• And many more ….

State-of-the art manufacturing equipment:

• Multiple Mazak multi-task milling & turning; CNC lathe & milling machines
• Many more manual machine cells including vertical turret lathes
• Large inventory of products on the shelf and ready to ship to meet customers’ immediate requirements

From the smallest 3/8 inch... 

...to DN1400 mm (56 inch) ..the biggest size available in the market 

CLA-VAL offers personalised technical assistance, maintenance support, and end-user training programmes, including comprehensive engineering, service training and application seminars at our premises, on customer site or online.

This helps our customers to achieve optimal performance of CLA-VAL products during start-up and after installation to help ensure many years of reliable and trouble-free service.

CLA-VAL’s waterworks and fire protection products meet all applicable standards and specifications prescribed by industry organisations such as WRAS, NSF, UL and FM International.

Along with ISO 9001 certifications for our production facilities in Switzerland and the UK, and ISO 9002 for our manufacturing facility in Canada, CLA-VAL also holds many other certifications, listings and approvals in North America and around the world.

All of CLA-VAL’s manufacturing processes and practices are verified by the procedures outlined in the CLA-VAL quality control manual, which outlines inspection points and controls on products as they move through the manufacturing steps. 

Enforced by the quality control manual, the company provides and maintains an inspection system that will ensure compliance.

The environmental health and safety department is responsible for implementing a programme that ensures the health and safety of the company employees and helps minimise environmental impact related to our business operations.

The objectives of the Environmental Health and Safety Programme is to prevent personal injury through company-wide adherence to safety procedures and environmental protection measures.

CLA-VAL fulfills its mission to create and maintain a safe and environmentally sound workplace by adhering to procedures in the following key areas:

• Hazardous waste & materials management
• Government and local regulatory compliance
• Health & safety inspection/facility audits
• Accident & injury prevention/investigations
• Education, training & protective equipment
• Safety standards & procedures
• Energy efficient facility and systems