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Trezzo sull’Adda, Milan – September 2022

With the aim of reinforcing further our core manufacturing capabilities and streamline execution we have decided to stop production in China by year-end, transforming China’s footprint from manufacturing to trading.

Current China’s valve production will be moved to GWC ITALIA’s two existing plants (Italy and US) where new investments in capacity expansion have already been launched.

China is however confirmed part of our growth strategy. The legal entity in Shanghai will be transformed into a trading company and the present Chinese supplier base further developed.

This way we are re-focusing GWC ITALIA towards what we’re doing best and building a stronger Group.

The fundamentals of the industry we operate in remain strong and GWC ITALIA’s current trading is very encouraging, standing out among peer competition worldwide. We’re pushing on.

Alessandro Corrente, Group CEO

GWC ITALIA. We are committed to becoming the world’s most trusted Ball Valve provider.

BAKERSFIELD, USA – February 2nd, 2022 – GWC Italia announces another key representative alliance with Energy Sales LLC, further strengthening its national reach in North America and in particular in the Permian Basin.

GWC Italia has been distributing valves in North America since 1985 and has continuously broadening its presence in the United States. This latest key representative partnership allows further growth of its clients’ portfolio as Energy Sales LLC, based in Odessa, Texas will represent GWC Italia in the Permian Basin Territory with its line of Welded and Bolted Body Trunnion Ball Valves, Floating Ball Valves as well as Gate, Globe & Check Valves providing coverage across the key region of West Texas.

GWC Italia has significant inventory in the United States and is extremely well positioned to support Energy Sales LLC into this key region.

GWC Italia are privileged to be working alongside Energy Sales LLC, a leading company in its marketplace and it was a great pleasure to have had the chance to meet our new partners in Houston, Texas last December to cement our relationship.

The prestigious magazine Inside Oil&Gas published a major article on GWC Italia on the hard copy of Edition OG28 with detailed information on our history, products, services, and future plans.

The article is based on an extensive interview between one of the specialists at Inside Oil&Gas and GWC Italia CCO – Senior VP, Mr. Enzo Dellesite.

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BAKERSFIELD, California, USA – July 23, 2021 – GWC Italia announces another key representative alliance with M5 Incorporated strengthening its national reach in North America.

M5 Incorporated, based in Oklahoma will represent GWC Italia in the Mid Continent Territory with its line of Welded and Bolted Body Trunnion Ball Valves, Floating Ball Valves as well as Gate, Globe & Check Valves providing coverage across the key regions of Oklahoma, Kansas, East Texas, North Louisiana and Arkansas.

GWC Italia has significant inventory in the United States and is extremely well positioned to support M5 Incorporated into the mid-continent Oil & Gas Industry.

GWC Italia has been distributing valves in North America since 1985 and continuously broadening its presence in the United States. This key representative partnership allows further growth of its clients’ portfolio.

“We are privileged to be working alongside M5 Incorporated, a leading company in its marketplace, offering many new opportunities”, said Marc Thurmond, Vice President-Sales North America for GWC Italia.

“The aim is simple, to continue our own journey with practical improvements that we can all make to reduce our impact on the environment when manufacturing Ball Valves encompassing all of our manufacturing operations worldwide.

Many of our initiatives have short term marginal improvements, whilst others are longer term and aim to reduce waste in the manufacturing process.

We want to measure these environmental improvements and control them, we will be publishing results when asked to do so as part of our CSR program which is already aligned to our corporate goals that include Health, Safety, personal development and more.

In GWC Italia, every employee will have the chance to participate in designing and developing programs which will ultimately be implemented in line with our company improvement goals”.

Alessandra Pedrini

BAKERSFIELD, California, USA – April 16, 2021 – GWC Italia, a US manufacturer of ball valves and gate, globe and check valves in Bakersfield, California, announced today that it is strengthening its national reach in North America with two key representative alliances with Marshall Rodeno Associated & Valve Products. These representation agreements provide coverage across key regions of the United States, in the South East and Northern and Southern Rockies, complementing existing mature representation elsewhere in the country.

Marshall Rodeno and Valve Products will represent GWC’s range of trunnion and floating ball valves, including the full range of gate, globe and check valves. The valve ranges will be further complemented in the months to come, with additional product lines and services to those operating in midstream, upstream, and downstream markets.

GWC has been distributing valves in North America since 1985 and has attained a high level of customer acceptance and references. “These new representative alliances allow us to further grow our customer base in areas where we have been unable to support properly with after sales service in the past,” said Marc Thurmond, Vice President-Sales North America for GWC Italia. “GWC Italia has significant inventory to support business growth anticipated in the upper and lower Rockies and the Southeast region where we are now represented by Marshall Rodeno and Valve Products. With tens of millions of US inventory, we are extremely well positioned to support our new partners,” he added.

GWC Italia targets new US market spaces

Since it began operating in 1985, GWC Italia has traditionally built its reputation in downstream and parts of the midstream markets. However, the company expanded its markets significantly into upstream and large-scale pipeline business in 2015 with the introduction of its European manufacturing plant in Italy. This increased GWC Italia’s presence in North America across all spectrums of the market, including LNG.

GWC Italia is striving to achieve its vision to be the world’s most trusted valve partner in the markets it serves, retaining its ambitions of continuing to be easy to work with and delivering on its promises.

“Representative alliances with leading companies, such as Marshall Rodeno and Valve Products, provide GWC Italia with the perfect platform to grow further, complementing each other in our mutual goals and strategies going forward. These companies both enjoy a very strong reputation in their served markets, and we are proud to be associated with them,” added Thurmond.

VALVEcampus is an Italian association of manufacturers of industrial valves and components used in the Oil Gas and Power Industries.

Founded in 2014, by five original promoting manufacturing companies, it has the aim to promote and share the technical culture of industrial valves technologies among all relevant stakeholders, highlighting the role of excellence and international presence of the Italian leading industries.

VALVEcampus gives the opportunity to share knowledge, experience and ideas with other leading industry professionals and organizations.

Responsible for the organization of the fair’s technical events IVS – Industrial Valve Summit, VALVEcampus will continue to offer training sessions to all stakeholders with the introduction of an innovative knowledge sharing platform: IVS – VALVEcampus Knowledge Platform.

The main scope of this platform is to extend the IVS event and its contributions, with no time and physical boundaries, to become a permanent and growing knowledge tool, excellent and dynamic: “A continuous knowledge sharing platform for a successful future”.

Every market has its own peculiarities in order to meet the different requirements coming from Customers and Suppliers which depend primarily by a number of dominating factors, such as effective and real technological content, capacity to properly qualify values among clients, willingness of End Users to properly evaluate and accept qualities of products and services.

Digitalization is a typical example.

Processes covered by Industry 4.0 are affecting not only the manufacturing side but also the Oil & Gas extraction, production, treatment and distribution, particularly in the downstream sector where production data gathering – thanks to the increased use of sensors, included in valves and actuators – guarantees control optimizations and tangible production savings.

This trend, present already in the control valve sector, will shortly represent a new opportunity also for the designers and manufacturers of other valve types: Big Data Management will offer them a concrete and innovative way to improve their products’ offer.

Additionally, as markets are constantly and rapidly evolving, all stakeholders within their responsibilities, will face new challenges for their entire working force. We forecast increasing needs of continuous professional formative training and courses to allow the adoption of new opportunities, induced by emerging progress and technological accelerations.

With a good degree of foresight, already in 2006, the European Union introduced the “Life-long Learning Program” to endorse and sustain the education and formation essential, particularly for new generations which will form a basis for their professional growth and success

Visit the VALVEcampus website to view all its initiatives www.valvecampus.com