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2009
2008

mar 26

Apollo Valves® Extends Warranty an Additional 3 Years

Conbraco Industries announced that effective March 26, 2009 they will be extending thier warranty on all domestic products... Read more

oct 24

Apollo's® Commitment to Workplace Safety Improves Quality And Reduces Cost

Conbraco Industries announced today that the company has completed nearly 10 months of accident and injury-free manufacturing operations in its three South Carolina plants. Conbraco employs more than 1,200 workers in plants located in Pageland and Conway, SC... Read more

sep 18

Apollo® Valves Earns ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Accreditation For Engineering Laboratory

ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Accreditation For Engineering Laboratory

Apollo® Valves has earned ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation for its engineering laboratory in Pageland, S.C. Apollo® is the first U.S. valve manufacturer to meet this standard, which many consider to be among the industry's most important for engineering test facilities. The Apollo Valves gage calibration laboratory, also located in Pageland, is ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited, as well...

sep 08

Conbraco Receives Nomination For S.C. Manufacturer Of The Year

Conbraco Industries, Inc. was recently nominated by the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce for its prestigious Manufacturer of the Year Award. Conbraco manufactures the Apollo® Valves brand of ball valves and other flow control products such as backflow preventers, mixing valves.... Read more

jun 30

Apollo Valves introduces New ASSE 1070 Individual Lavatory Temperature Controller

New ASSE 1070 Individual Lavatory Temperature Controller

Apollo® Valves has introduced a new addition to it's family of ASSE-certified, temperature controlled mixing valves. The new Apollo® MVD is the smallest of Apollo's mixing valve line, designed for "point-of-use" applications on sensor-operated or standard sensor-less single fixtures... Read more

jun 30

Apollo Valves introduces New ASSE 1070 Individual Lavatory Temperature Controller

New ASSE 1070 Individual Lavatory Temperature Controller

Apollo® Valves has introduced a new addition to it's family of ASSE-certified, temperature controlled mixing valves. The new Apollo® MVD is the smallest of Apollo's mixing valve line, designed for "point-of-use" applications on sensor-operated or standard sensor-less single fixtures... Read more

jan 21

New Larger Apollo® 77C Full-Port Ball Valves Offer Superior Flow Up To 2-1/2 Inches

Apollo® 77C Full-Port Ball Valves

Apollo® Valves has extended its 77C "Contractor" Series full-port bronze ball valve line to include a new 2-1/2 inch model. The new larger valve is available to ship now with either NPT (77C-100) or sweat (77C-200) end connections... Read more

2007

Dec 17

New Apollo® 77D Full-Port Ball Valve Offers Fast Actuator Mounting Without Brackets

Apollo® 77D Full-Port Ball Valve

With their integral ISO mounting pad, new Apollo® 77D Series full-port ball valves are designed for fast mounting of actuators - without special mounting kits or brackets. Every valve is built and tested in the U.S... Read more

Oct 29

Conbraco Industries Named A-D Supplier of the Year

Conbraco Industries Named A-D Supplier of the Year

Conbraco Industries Named A-D Supplier of the Year during A-D's annual North American Meeting held recently in Dallas, Texas.... Read more

Aug 27

New 4SG Series Apollo® Backflow Preventers Make Design and Installation Easy

New 4SG Series Apollo® Backflow Preventer

New Apollo® 4SG Series double check valves and double-check detector assemblies combine a short lay length with consistently low pressure loss and an extremely flat flow curve to make them the easiest to design into any piping system... Read more

Jun 16

Glenn Mosack Is Ernst & Young Carolinas Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner

Glenn Mosack Is Ernst & Young Carolinas Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner

Glenn Mosack, President of Conbraco Industries, Inc. was named as Ernst & Young's Carolinas Entrepreneur of the Year in the Manufacturing and Industrial Products category. Mr. Mosack was one of 30 finalists in the two-state region who were nominated for recognition in the 2007 awards... Read more

May 16

Commitment To Quality Leads To New Two-Year Warranty On Full Apollo® Line

2 year Warranty

Officials at Conbraco Industries announced today they have extended the warranty period for the company's complete line of U.S.-made Apollo® valves... Read more

Mar 23

Innovative Valving Solution Solves Over-Pressure And Turbidity in Tight Space For Poultry Processor

Apollo<sup>®</sup> A127 Series

Ken Johnson of Hulsey Environmental and Plumbing Services knows pressure. When he was asked to troubleshoot a backflow prevention problem at a poultry processing plant earlier this year, he quickly diagnosed that incoming pressure was the major problem, but it wasn't the only problem... Read more

Mar 23

Rugged Aluminum Pneumatic Actuators New Addition To Apollo® Valve Lineup

New Aluminum Pneumatic Actuators

Apollo® Valve distributors are now taking orders on the company's newest pneumatic actuator, with an extruded aluminum body and a rugged twin rack and pinion design that delivers constant torque output... Read more