• COVER STORY: COMBET VALVES •
Combet Valves: Accelerating Perfo
With engineering expertise, sharp business acumen, and top tier certifications for its flow control products, Netherlands-based Combet Valves is broadening its scope and making efforts to grow in the U. S. flow control market.
• By Steve Fennell
Combet Valves, a manufacturer headquartered in Houten, The Netherlands, has been engineering high-performance, high-pressure, compact valves since they launched operations in 2017. Under the leadership of CEO, Matthieu Smit, and Vice President, Benjie Terrebonne, Combet has established a strong presence throughout Europe and Asia.
In recent years, the company opened a U. S. sales office in Broussard, Louisiana— a strategic location in one of the United States’ leading oil & gas hubs— to further establish its footprint in the U. S. oil & gas market and drive international growth.
Strong Client Portfolio and U. S. Presence
In an interview with Valve World Americas, Smit explained that the types of valves they manufacture were initially developed in the early 1970s, with offshore applications being the focus of the product line. Smit and Terrebonne then began outlining plans to design and manufacture their own compact valves in 2015.
Today, its portfolio of products and clients span both the offshore and onshore oil & gas sectors. They have partnered with a distributor in Louisiana— which covers offshore
Testing at its facility in Houten. To ensure efficiency and reliability of its product, new test benches have been ordered for Combet’ s manufacturing facility.
sites in the Gulf of America— and another in West Texas. As a result, many of its valves are used by top end users, meeting the requirements of companies such as bp, Shell, Woodside, McDermott, Subsea7, Baker Hughes, and Noble Energy, to name just a few.
The High-Quality Tech of Combet Valves
Combet’ s high-pressure, high-performing compact valves have a three-piece, modular design, which enables the company to create different configurations for a variety of applications.
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