Nuclear Valves:

Copes-Vulcan has been engineering and manufacturing valves for the nuclear industry for over forty years, and is an unsurpassed innovator in control, isolation and rotary valves. The company was established in 1903, and has proudly produced globe, gate, swing, check, butterfly, ball and sampling valves for their nuclear customers.

In 2000, Copes-Vulcan was purchased by SPX who moved the nuclear manufacturing facility to McKean, Pennsylvania. The McKean facility holds ASME “N” and “NPT” stamps and is certified by ASME to manufacture valves and components to the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.

Copes-Vulcan has provided technical solutions for a variety of nuclear applications including feedwater, steam dump, pressurizer spray, reactor coolant, sampling, service water, and safety injection valves.

Copes-Vulcan boasts one of the largest selections of globe valve trims available in the nuclear market, with designs ranging from general service port throttling trim to RAVEN™, a stacked disc, velocity control trim.

Copes-Vulcan has manufactured valves for boiling water reactors (BWR), heavy water reactors (CANDU) and pressurized water reactors (PWR), and has supplied valves to many countries including the United States, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, China, Japan, Switzerland, Brazil and more.