Trillium Flow Technologies’ legacy valve brand, Red Point®, is known for its highly customized valve solutions tailored to customer specifications, rapid delivery times, and engineering flexibility.
As an industry innovator in flow control, Red Point is adding a Rising Stem Ball Valve to its extensive production catalog of ball, check, double block and bleed, gate, and globe valves. This latest innovation from the Netherlands-based engineering brand is designed to reduce friction on moving components, extend maximum service life, and provide a low-maintenance design. The Rising Stem Ball Valve is widely used in the oil and gas industry, where its robust design and reliability in preventing leakage are valued.
The new valve’s friction-free sealing and non-contact ball movement achieve longer potential service life and, combined with the single-seated design, features a broad operating temperature range from -196°C to 450°C. The impact of thermal expansion has been minimized by the configuration of the valve components, allowing for this impressive temperature range.
Red Point’s newest model is suitable for dirty service with a uniquely designed bottom trunnion that ensures the prevention of solid particle ingress into the valve.
The distinct quarter-turn helix-shaped stem mechanism design is fully enclosed within the valve body, providing additional protection against environmental factors and eliminating the requirement for frequent lubrication. When closing the valve, the downward linear movement of the helix passing through the roller bars on the top of the ball causes the ball to rotate 90 degrees without physical contact, ensuring friction-free operation.
Regular ball and pin assembly designs often suffer from potential welding-related cracking issues. The new RSBV design eliminates this by employing an innovative weld-free design, enhancing its reliability and longevity. Additionally, we have addressed further weld cracking and thermal expansion concerns arising from the use of different metals with a non-shrink fitted/welded seat design.
The extensively tested Outside Screw and Yoke design is renowned for its reliability and lightweight construction, making it a preferred choice for operations worldwide. As always with Red Point designs, valves are made according to the best fit solution based on each customer’s specifications. The new RSBV design is no exception and comes in a wide range of materials, depending on what’s most appropriate.
Targeting applications where the demand is for a long-serving and reliable valve, Red Point’s latest offering is testament to its heritage of finding innovative and effective engineering solutions to the industry’s problems.
Red Point® Alloys BV (Red Point) is a world leader in non-commodity valves, with over 30 years of experience in fast-track delivery, special materials, and design. Red Point’s manufacturing capabilities include ball, check, gate, globe, double block and bleed, and non-commodity valves. With engineering, production, assembling, and testing handled in-house, Red Point® has carved out a niche providing custom valves made from exotic materials, quickly.
Fred Jansen serves as the General Manager of our facility in the Netherlands, where Red Point valves are manufactured. Fred shared, “We’re proud to solve more customer challenges by adding this solution to our growing portfolio.”
As part of Trillium Flow Technologies’ commitment to excellence, the new design is a great example of our ability to bring new ideas to old problems and put forward simple but effective solutions with top-tier products and services.
About Trillium Flow Technologies
Trillium is a global designer, manufacturer, and aftermarket services provider of engineered valves and pumps used in critical infrastructure and broader industrial applications. Its established portfolio of brands serves customers in the water and wastewater, global power generation, mining, and general process industries.
