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About Us K-TORK has a long and successful history
with high-performance vane actuators. In 1983, the principle owner of K-TORK
began importing a similar vane actuator manufactured in England to the United States. These products were marketed through a division
of Controls International, Inc. to valve automation
suppliers located around the U.S. It was Controls International's
responsibility to establish the distribution, marketing policy, inventory
product, warranty all sales, train distributors and create a market for a
product that had no previous significant presence in the United States.
K-TORK International,
Inc. had known for years that the imported product lacked
the operating pressures and temperatures demanded by
the Power Utility and Municipal markets in the United
States. In 1996, K-TORK International, Inc. embarked
on a mission to design and produce the World's
Finest High Performance Valve Actuator.
It was important for K-TORK to incorporate some of the
same features found in the imported design to facilitate retrofit field
installations:
- Identical mounting bolt circle dimensions so that K-TORK actuators will
mount onto EXISTING mounting brackets without any modification to the bracket.
- Identical output drive shaft dimensions so that K-TORK actuators will
utilize EXISTING couplings without any modifications to the coupling.
- Same torque outputs for each similar Model.
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