CRANE Energy Flow Solutions®, Flowseal® High Performance Butterfly Valves Feature Material Enhancements and NACE Compliance

The Woodlands, TX (November 22, 2012) – CRANE Energy Flow Solutions® is pleased to announce significant improvements to its Flowseal® High Performance Butterfly Valve, now offered with enhanced shaft and pin material – 17-4 Stainless Steel (ASTM A564 gr. 630) with DHT (Double Heat Treated). Can be supplied with a seat that makes this valve Standard NACE compliant, and more resistant to sulfide stress cracking (SSC).

Key benefits include:

• Flowseal® patented Bi-directional seat design provides 360° of bubble-tight shutoff with minimal wear and low torques.
• Extent of product line: 2-48” 150#, 30” 300# and up to 16” on 600# class available with Soft, Fire-Flow, and Metal seat configurations.
• Variety of metals and special alloys to suit a range of diverse applications, including sour environments found in Hydrocarbon processing.

For additional information please contact your local CRANE representative, or visit our website www.craneenergy.com

About Crane
Crane Co. is a diversified global manufacturer of engineered industrial products traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CR). One of its segments, CRANE Fluid Handling, provides highly engineered products for fluid handling applications worldwide. It is made up of several focused fluid handling businesses, including CRANE ChemPharma Flow Solutions™.

CRANE Energy Flow Solutions®, manufactures and sells a variety of valves for commercial and industrial process pipelines including: gate, globe, swing check, wafer check, nozzle check, resilient-seated butterfly valves, high performance and triple offset butterfly valves, metal seated ball valves and metal seated plug valves. Its trusted brands include: ALOYCO®, CENTER LINE®, COMPAC-NOZ®, CRANE®, DUO-CHEK®, FLOWSEAL®, JENKINS®, KROMBACH®, NOZ-CHEK®, PACIFIC VALVES®, STOCKHAM®, TRIANGLE®, and UNI-CHEK®.