We’re attending the world’s major petroleum industry event in Abu Dhabi right now, with Gethin Hale and Nick Long running the Great British Valve Group stand at ADIPEC. We realise many key customers and contacts attend this incredible get-together every year so we’d love for you to come over and say hello on stand 8450 of
We’re delighted to announce two significant new contracts for Hobbs Valve, with an adapted version of our double block and bleed triple offset valve being specified for one of the UK’s largest oil refineries. The client was facing a specific challenge that had become a long-term problem on site. It involved the need for a
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Great British Valve Group – a group of companies offering global customers the best of British engineering, manufacture and customer service. “The one thing that links all our group’s companies is innovation,” explains Alun Hobbs, Founder and Chairman of Hobbs Valve and now also of The
This month we’ve chosen to profile a world-renowned civil engineer and architect from Scotland; Thomas Telford, first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and known as the Colossus of Roads (see what his poet friend Robert Southey did there?) – a man who was hugely influential in his day and whose reputation as a
Ever heard of James Starley? Maybe not. But we bet you’ve heard of the penny-farthing, right? This famously crazy-looking bicycle was targeted at a sporty, affluent audience and featured its wildly disproportionate wheel sizes on account of the lack of anything other than direct drive in use on bikes at the time – the larger
We’ve profiled quite a few ‘big names’ in British engineering history recently, so we thought it was time to take a look at a perhaps less well-known, but still resourceful and influential engineer who was responsible for much of the rail system in Wales and went on to spread his knowledge and inspiration across the