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Although the oil and gas industries used a huge quantity of valves, the biggest users of America’s valve output were the Navy and Merchant Marines. The nation’s shipyards launched over 4,000 ships during the war. With each ship averaging about 2,000 valves, that meant the valve industry produced at least 10 million marine valves during the four-year period.
As American industry became more regulated, the valve and fitting industry also fell under increased government involvement. In addition to directing which industries and projects received priority during the conflict, the War Production Board (WPB) created stringent requirements for which products could even be manufactured. WPB stated in its limitization orders that certain materials could be used for valves, what sizes could be manufactured and also what pressure classes were acceptable. This force-fed standardization would be good training for the standards and specifications that were developed in the postwar years.
America’s valve manufacturers went above and beyond the call of duty to do more than their share, producing millions of valves and fittings during the four years of wartime. A letter from WPB written in late 1943 to the valve industry complemented the manufacturers on their “enviable record of production.” What’s more, the new materials, processes and production techniques perfected during those war years ensured U.S. valve market domination for at least another 30 to 40 years.
A worker testing valves in a shop during the 1940s. Valve manufacturers during the war relied more and more on older workers as the young talent was whisked away for war-time service abroad.
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Goole Valve Technology Co.,Ltd
Address: He_yi Industrial Zone,Oubei Town,Wenzhou City,Zhejiang Province,P.R.China
Tel: 86-577-57781015
E_mail: goole4@goolevalve.com
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