Solution:
Valves experiencing erosion, flashing, cavitation, noise, and vibration very often lead to leakage, which ultimately impacts plant performance and results in low reliability and unnecessary cost. These problems can lead to constant, unplanned maintenance, or a requirement to replace the whole valve.
IMI Critical Engineering’s decades of experience and deep knowledge of both processes and valve products, means our Valve Doctors® and Application Engineers are able to use that know-how to deliver effective upgrade solutions, often without waiting for a major outage.
Our Retrofit3D engineered trim installation takes just hours instead of days. Our certified technicians can support installation as necessary, although our trim requires no onsite valve modification as a result of IMI’s precise engineering and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes. As a result, the plant gets back online quickly, avoiding unwanted downtime costs.
Through IMI Critical’s long-established engineering reputation, an innovative approach to finding and solving customer problems, these solutions are now being delivered successfully across the globe.
The use of local additive manufacturing replacement solutions also benefits the wider world. They require less raw material, less shipping and packaging, and make ‘upgrade versus replacement’ feasible whilst keeping the world’s plants running safely and efficiently.
Key benefits
IMI Critical’s 3D printed trims can be ready just 4 weeks from order, compared to the standard 26 weeks for a complete new valve
The trim replacement upgrades competitor valve performance, with no long-term outage required to install the solution
Such an upgrade reduces manufacturing waste and contributes to ‘repair not replace’, supporting the transition to a circular economy, whilst improving plant reliability
