The benefits of a partner that understands the intricacies of workholding to deliver practical solutions. Workholding fixtures are critical in precision machining to ensure accuracy, repeatability, and efficiency and achieving tight tolerances and...
Laser Marking Solutions for the Valve Industry
Laser marking stands out as a superior solution for valve industry needs, offering a range of advantages, including branding, identification codes, warning labels, and user instructions. Unlike traditional marking techniques such as pad printing,...
Custom Valve Streamlines Customer Assembly
Challenge: Streamline Operations and Enhance Efficiency Holiday House Distributing, North America’s leading distributor of office coffee service (OSC), water, and vending parts faced inefficiencies while integrating The Specialty Mfg. Co’s stock...
Tailored Engineering Meets Miniaturization Requirements While Containing Costs
Challenge: Engineering for Reliable Diesel Exhaust A global diesel equipment manufacturer faced a challenge when they needed to reduce the size of a valve on a diesel exhaust system. This change necessitated sourcing smaller valves that could fit...
Custom Solutions for Backflow Prevention
Challenge: Addressing fuel line backflow in industrial equipment A major industrial equipment manufacturer encountered significant challenges with fuel line backflow in their forklift tractors, prompting a search for a more effective valve solution...
Case Study: Push-button Relief Valve
Challenge: Redesigning a Replacement Valve for Aerospace Application In response to a need within the aerospace industry, a customer needed to find an alternative source for a custom push-button relief valve used in helicopter seats. The abrupt...
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...
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...
The Engineering Behind SecureTip’s Innovative Saliva Ejector: An Interview With Specialty Dental
SecureTip was looking to improve performance of its saliva ejectors for clinicians and patients, while also reducing manufacturing costs. Read More
Innovations in Dental Tool Design
See how The Specialty Mfg. Co’s. value added design and manufacturing capabilities were applied to improve the function of hand held tools for dentists, read more.