VMA Welcomes FloSource
New member FloSource is a family owned and operated valve and valve automation, and steam specialty distributor.
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New member is a family owned and operated valve and valve automation, and steam specialty distributor. For more than a decade, FloSource has been the Midwest’s leading quick-turnaround distributor of valve, actuation, instrumentation and steam equipment for end-users, OEMs, Engineering and Construction Services (E&Cs), as well as process mechanical contractors in power, oil, gas, food and beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, plastics, steel and water/waste management.
VMA looks forward to working with FloSource to advance the industrial valve industry.
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