As one of North America’s oldest and most respected manufacturers of valves and couplers, The Specialty Manufacturing Company has a unique and valuable set of resources to offer its customers. Value begins with products which are manufactured to...
Value Added Engineering for Manufacturability
With a long history of design engineering expertise and value-added services for functional design solutions, Specialty Manufacturing is committed to establishing a successful design partnership with every customer. Through ‘value added...
Manufacturing Know How: Design for Both Function and Manufacturability
Specialty Manufacturing is one of North America’s oldest and most respected manufacturers, providing standard ISO certified products, collaborating with customers to solve unique manufacturing problems, and working with businesses to convert ideas...
The Specialty Manufacturing Company: One Of The World’s Greatest Valve Manufacturers
Featured on the popular ION television network’s World’s Greatest series, The Specialty Manufacturing Company is profiled as one of the world’s greatest valve manufacturers. The presentation showcases why the company is a trusted source of products...
Try Our New Check Valve Tutorial
Specialty Mfg. is a trusted source for standard check valves, for custom work involving basic valve modifications, and for fully custom fluid-control solutions. Check valves, also known as back-flow valves, are used in an endless number of...
Industry’s Most Popular Suction Strainer Sizes Available as Fast as Next Day
The Specialty Manufacturing Company, a worldwide leader in custom metal and plastic valves, has announced their entire offering of suction strainers are available immediately, with all orders shipping in just two weeks and many popular sizes as...
Star Tribune Names The Specialty Manufacturing Company a Top Workplace for 2019
The Specialty Manufacturing Company Captures Another Prestigious Top Workplace Award. White Bear Lake, MN, August 22, 2019 —The Specialty Manufacturing Company, a leading manufacturer in custom valve solutions, today announced that for the 3rd year...
A Case for Valve Customization
When Holiday House Distributing, the largest distributor of OCS, water and vending parts in North America, needed a modification to a ball valve design, there was no question that it would ask The Specialty Manufacturing Co. (SMC) to create it....
Your Ideas Made Real – The Value of Vertically Integrated Design
The Specialty Manufacturing Company is one of North America’s oldest and most respected valve manufacturers. Family owned for over a century, Specialty Mfg. leverages expertise across all areas of its business by providing valuable and interrelated...
In-House Capabilities Streamline Lead Times for Custom Valves
Because the lead time of a product affects how quickly a customer can solve their issue, manufacturers strive to limit this window of time as much as possible. One way to do this is by bringing all engineering, prototyping, manufacturing and...
The Material Importance of Fit, Form and Function
Today’s smaller and lighter automotive engines achieve greater speed than their predecessors while consuming less fuel. The simultaneous reduction of emissions and increased miles per gallon (MPG) figures testify to how truly efficient these...
Value-Added Engineering Is a Specialty Effort
Value-added engineering simply means just that. It enhances and customizes a standard solution so that it works better; offers cost, reliability and performance benefits; or uniquely solves a long-standing challenge. Providing value-added...
A Shared Philosophy Ensures Repeat Business
When Holiday House Distributing, the largest distributor of OCS, water and vending parts in North America, needed a modification to a ball valve design, there was no question that it would ask The Specialty Manufacturing Co. (SMC) to create it....
Powerful Online Valve Specification Tool Takes the Guess Work Out of Selecting the Right Valve
Now design engineers can quickly navigate through intuitive menus of valve attributes to identify the right valve for their application. Introducing The Specialty Mfg. Valve Configurator. The powerful online specification tool that guides users...


