Control Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards Include Several VMA Members
Awards were bestowed to Bray International, Neles, Flowserve, Emerson and Baker Hughes across the magazine’s Final Control Elements category.
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Marking the 30th anniversary of Control magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards, several VMA member companies were winners in the category of Final Control Elements.
Emerson took top honors for Control Valves, On/Off Valves and Pneumatic Actuators. Other high-ranking valve makers included Baker Hughes, Bray International, Flowserve and Neles.
The breakdown of subcategories and VMA member winners include:
- Control Valve: Emerson–first place, Baker Hughes–second, Flowserve–third and Neles–fifth.
- Valve, On/Off: Emerson–first place, Flowserve–second, Neles–third and Bray International–fourth.
- Control Valve Actuator, Pneumatic: Emerson–first place, Baker Hughes–second and Flowserve–third.
- Control Valve Actuator, Electric: Emerson–first place and Flowserve–fourth.
The Readers’ Choice Awards is perennially among Control magazine’s most popular feature articles. 2021’s version was no exception, ranking as the year’s most visited story. Instrumentation and control professionals refer to the awards because they represent the collective wisdom of readers who have taken the time, as it’s been done for three decades, to share technology and application expertise in products ranging from annunciators to weighing systems—and everything in between. The full story is .
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