Mining Industry

The mining industry requires solutions that help make the mining and refining processes safer and more efficient. These solutions help improve the safety environment and increase customers’ bottom line. The corrosive and abrasive matter managed during these processes quickly wears on pipelines and valve arrangements, requiring frequent repairs and leading to costly downtime. In spite of constrained production capacities, operators are under enormous pressure to meet rising demand for metals and minerals faster and more efficiently. At the same time, new mandates requiring plants to reduce harmful emissions add to the increased pressures and challenges facing miners.  Pentair understands these challenges and offers an extensive range of products and solutions from leading brands including Clarkson, Crosby and Keystone, which are designed to assist our customers to:

• Outperform during the mining and processing of metals and minerals
• Decrease maintenance-related downtime
• Improve plant and pipeline operating performance
• Protect personnel
• Meet environmental and quality standards

Applying Advanced Technology to Meet the Industry’s Needs
Our advanced mining technologies include knife gate valves, butterfly valves and slurry isolation valves that help automate processes and extend plant life cycles.  Using design software, including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA), we have the ability to estimate the future wear of a product, enabling our engineers to assist in alleviating and solving process and isolation issues before they arise.

Pentair is also helping customers comply with environmental standards with valve and control products that assist in detecting and reducing leakage, monitoring emissions and managing dangerous high pressures.  We are focused on double block and bleed, line blanking and confined space man entry applications, to help assure safety while working with systems, tanks and vessels.

Pentair is Your Partner
With the goal of helping our customers create more productive operations, Pentair recently introduced a Valve Improvement Program (VIP).  Driven by our Six Sigma toolset, we act as an on-site consultant to assist in identifying and targeting systemic problems, with minimal disruption to the facility.  Working alongside our customer’s team to fully understand their operational issues, we can assist our customers optimize valve life cycle.   We’ve helped find solutions that enable plants to run more efficiently, reliably and with less downtime, ultimately increasing their ROI. No matter where in the world our customers are located, Pentair’s global mining team is present with local representatives to help solve their mining challenges.