Inception
Since 1966
The origin of Indian Valve goes back to September 1966, following closure in India of Glenfield and Kennedy Limited, a renowned hydraulic valve manufacturing Company of Scotland. A new name and a new logo, "IVC", was born, the outfit appropriately named “The Indian Valve Company (*)”. Using knowledge gained in the years before promoting IVC, the promoters were able to quickly establish a reputation of its own, struck roots in West Bengal, ventured out and established a manufacturing Plant in Nasik, Maharashtra. To feed this Nasik Plant a Foundry was established in West Bengal, Machine tools for valve making added thereafter.
During the year 1976 the Company introduced a range of Butterfly valves, manufactured in technical association with J. Blakeborough & Sons Ltd. of England. During 1991 "IVI", a new brand was launched to compliment the existing range of products, manufactured at its 3rd plant in West Bengal. Another technical collaboration with an Overseas Company during 2008 enabled the company to manufacture resilient wedge gate valves at its Nasik plant.
Besides supplying to the water boards, sewerage projects, large Irrigation projects, thermal/atomic power stations, steel plants and process industries within the country, "IVC" valves also found application overseas (USA, the British Isles, South & Far East Asia and the Middle East).
With over 5 decades in the design and manufacture of valves and penstocks, myriads of satisfied customers within and without the country, Indian Valve together with their overseas technology associates, look forward, with renewed vigour, to the exciting prospects of associating with discerning customers , consultants, contracting companies and Organisations engaged in the field of:
- Treatment, Pumping & communicating (via Pipe line) water
- Irrigation - pumping & distribution
- Desalination & DM water plants
- Civil construction involving water & air
- Sea water application
- Process fluid control
- HVAC & Fire fighting
- Complete system monitoring & control of municipal water, 24x7 water distribution and irrigation systems.
History
- With a small beginning in a tin can shop "(*)" during 1966 making tiny sluice and check valves for waterworks, it now has 3 factories, employing over 200 people, permanent and temporary.
- Manufacturing and selling Valves and Penstocks in excess of Rs. 140 Cr ($25 M+) annually.
- Large Dia valves, up to DN4000, weighing in excess of 20 M.tons a piece, tailor-made for duty, are made at its Nasik plant, Sluice Gate / Penstocks at its works in Bengal.
- Besides Water and Wastewater application, including for Lift Irrigation projects in India, IVC valves are exported to several overseas countries in the Middle East, South East, Far East Asia, the British Isles with clients in Japan and the USA.
- It has been an active member of the Sub Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards since 1966 that help frame National Standards for Valves and Fittings used in Waterworks.
- While the Designs followed are essentially British and Scottish, it has a potent Design team using sophisticated Software for 3-D modelling, FE Analysis, and CFD for assessing valve characteristics vis-a-vis virtual flow. With its wide experience, it is in a position to design and deliver tailor-made valves for almost any kind of duty in water/ seawater application.
Timeline
1952
Mr Kalyan K. Bhattacharyya (KKB) joins Glenfield & Kennedy, Scotland
1966
Following closure of Glenfield & Kennedy in India, KKB starts The Indian Valve Company (IVC) in Calcutta with a leased workshop for valve making.
1972
A new factory is set up at Nasik, Western India
1974
A cast iron foundry with a machine shop is added in Howrah, West Bengal
1976
New line of Butterfly Valves is introduced in technical collaboration with J. Blakeborough & Sons Ltd. of England for manufacture at Nasik plant.
1985
Association formally extended during 1985 to accommodate larger sizes of Butterfly Valves.
1991
A new brand 'IVI' is launched, mostly standard products for manufacture at its new factory in Howrah, West Bengal
1997
Acquired Mastergear India for the manufacture of valve gearboxes at a separate workshop in Nasik, since christened TMI
2000
Single largest order for large valves ever, value INR 19Cr (USD 5M)
2005
Exports significant quantity of valves to a US company for the Iraq war rebuilding effort
2008
Foreign technical collaboration for the manufacture of resilient seated gate valves and related products
2010
Exports to Kuwait, Bahrain and England. Exports to Kubota, Japan for a project in Uzbekistan involving ebonite lined / encapsulated disc butterfly and pump discharge valves.
2018
Exports to overseas clients is by now a regular feature. A major feat was to help commission DN 1100 Gate valves with integral seats at a Hydroelectric project site (Dam outlet by pass) in Laos for IHI, Japan
2019
Under its CSR initiative a check dam for 100,000 Cum of rain water was built to help mitigate water woes of 5 villages in northern Maharashtra
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Chairman’s Vision
We at IVC are proud to be Asia's leading valve engineering company, and we are continually renewing our commitment to provide cutting-edge technology to the region and to the rest of the world.
Our business purpose is to serve our customers and the community as a whole. We will serve them with products that are innovative, better built and longer lasting than those offered by our competitors. Developing, manufacturing, and selling valves are the activities we engage in, in order to serve.
The IVC of the future will be larger and more complex than it is today. But the big difference between IVC today and the one in the vision will be the associates and how we interact. IVC will be more personal as a working environment because all associates will be serving one another in a way that creates a sense of community similar to the sense of family that existed when Mr. KKB first started the company.
We want our associates to look upon their work not as an occupation, but a vocation...not a necessary chore for making a living, but an opportunity for personal development and fulfillment. IVC associates will be viewed as unique individuals with dignity and intrinsic value, independent of the work they do. They will be united in a common cause, each contributing his or her indispensable work, well done, so that the individual efforts add up to a collective world-class result.
We do not exist to make a profit. This is not an end, but a means by which we can continue as a strong, independently-owned company.
K K Bhattacharyya, Founder
CSR
Shivshet Check Dam
Each year village Shivshet in Peth taluka of Maharashtra, an Adivasi dominated hamlet, 74km from Nasik, "IVC's" home, suffers from acute water shortage post monsoon. Young men migrate to Nasik city in search of work, leaving the old, women folk, children and cattle to fend for themselves. Despite abundant rainfall, the runoff down a natural slope towards the Dang forest is almost instantaneous.
