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BY JUDY TIBBS
24 AcuKast, Inc. 136
33 AUMA Actuators, Inc. 3
27 Cameron’s Valves & 16
Measurement
15 Caplugs 145
55 Concast Metals 73
39 Continental Disc Corporation 85
C4 Crane Energy Flow Solutions 67
41 Curtiss-Wright Flow Control 17
51 Delta Valve (div. of 11
Curtiss-Wright Flow Control)
23 EIM Controls 23
5 Emerson Process 25
Management - Fisher Controls
31 Farris Engineering (div. of 77
Curtiss-Wright Flow Control)
C2 Flexitallic 26
25 Flowserve 16
28 FluoroSeal, Inc. 70
29 Garlock Sealing Technologies 29
19 General Magnaplate 117
26 Growth Capital Partners, L.P. 123
49 Highland Foundry Ltd. 31
14 Manufacturers 164
Standardization Society
36 Metso Automation/Valvcon 61
17 Metso Automation 38
11, 35 The Wm. Powell Company 138
59 Power-Gen International 41
1 Remote Control, Inc. 43
C3 Rotex Controls 127
9 Rotork Controls, Inc. 92
43 Rotork Gears 46
50 Scientific Linings & Coatings 139
12 Siemens Energy & 48
Automation, Inc.
47 Solon Manufacturing 50
22 Spence Engineering Company, Inc. 105
37 Tyco Flow Control 57
44 U.S. Alloys, Inc. 159
21 United Valve 59
2 Velan Valve 63
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Changes
Glass Half-Full. As we move toward the
end of a most challenging year, it’s natural to reflect on the year past and consider the changes to our lives, our livelihoods
and our world. And what changes we’ve
experienced! You wouldn’t be alone if you
were feeling less than positive as we look
toward 2009, with many monumental
issues occupying our minds: the housing
meltdown, the credit crisis, dwindling
retirement accounts, rising unemployment, high material costs, lowered sales
forecasts, postponed projects, and so on.
Surely there are a lot of sad stories to
tell. But I’m a glass half-full kind of person, and I hope you are, too. For every
sad story, I hear another that talks about
obstacles overcome, an unexpectedly
profitable year, a product breakthrough,
or an act of charity that just may have
renewed my faith in humankind.
STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND
QUARTERLY CIRCULATION OF VALVE MAGAZINE
OWNER: Valve Manufacturers Association of America; William
S. Sandler, President and Publisher; Judith P. Tibbs. Associate
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
HEADQUAR TERS OF PUBLISHER, EDI TOR AND PUBLICATION:
1050 17th Street N W, Suite 280, Washington, DC 20036
S TOCKHOLDERS; BONDHOLDERS; MOR TGAGE; O THER SECURITY HOLDERS: None
Average No.
Copies Each
Issue Preceding
12 Months
27,561
Summer 2008
A. TOTAL COPIES PRINTED
(Net Press Run)
B. Paid/Requested 13,521
( 1) Outside county 0
( 2) Paid In-County
Subscriptions 0
( 3) Sales Through
Dealers, etc. 0
( 4) Other Classes Mailed
through USPS 747
C. Total Paid and/or
Requested Circulation 14,268
D. Free Distribution by Mail
( 1) Outside County 12,424
( 2) In-County 0
( 3) Other Classes Mailed
through USPS 0
E. Free Distribution
Outside the Mail 513
F. Total Free Distribution 12,937
G. Total Distribution 27,205
H. Copies Not Distributed 56
I. Total 27,561
J. Percent Paid and/or
Requested Circulation 51.8%
Date of Filing: Oct. 9, 2008
No. Copies of
Single Issue
Published Nearest
to Filing Date
26,775
13,422
0
0
0
748
14,170
11,717
0
0
600
12,317
26,487
288
26,775
52.9%
Don’t Be an Ostrich. Of all the notable
comments made at VMA’s Market Outlook Workshop in August—and even
though the predictions were made before
the September Wall St. crisis, it was
clear many industries were heading into
a down cycle—the one piece of advice I
remember above all others came from
economist Alan Beaulieu: Prepare for
the inevitable. Business is all about
cycles. Nothing stays constant. For
every high we experience, a low will follow. But when we hit the bottom, know
that we will inevitably enter another
upward cycle. Alan recommends that
companies be very aware that different
phases of the cycle call for different
actions. I like his “don’t hide your head
in the sand” philosophy.
Of Magazines and Websites. We’ll strive
next year to give valve, actuator and control users a bigger voice in the pages of
this magazine and on our website. Watch
for the introduction of a new column,
“Conversation with...,” in which we interview industry professionals— users, engineers, plant managers, distributors—
about a particular challenge they’ve faced
in their jobs, best practices they’d like to
share with colleagues or issues of importance to the flow control industry.
Also in the works is a monthly
e-newsletter for Valve Magazine readers.
Three months is too long to go without
touching base with our readers! Starting
in late January 2009, we’ll provide news
updates, product information and links to
articles created just for our readers. If
you want to make sure you receive the
new eVMnews, go to ValveMagazine.com
and click on Subscribe in the navigation
bar. Renew your subscription online,
being sure to add your email address. You
can also use this online form to request a
digital subscription to the magazine. VM
JUDY TIBBS is associate publisher/editor of Valve
Magazine and ValveMagazine.com. Reach her at
jtibbs@vma.org.
