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In 1908, Jersey City, New Jersey was the first city in the United States to begin routine disinfection of community drinking water. Over the next decade, thousands of cities and towns across the US followed suit in routinely disinfecting their drinking water, contributing to a dramatic decrease in disease across the country. Because of these successes, we can celebrate over a century of public drinking water disinfection and treatment.

There are more than 152,000 municipal water syste

Who Is FSA:
The Fluid Sealing Association* (FSA) is an international trade association founded in 1933. Member companies produce and market a wide range of fluid sealing devices targeted to the industrial market. FSA membership includes a number of companies in Europe and Central and South America but is most heavily concentrated in North America. FSA members account for a majority of the manufacturing capacity for fluid sealing and containment devices in the Americas ma

Inspired by nature, the duckbill valve is a simple check or one-way valve that is formed from a flexible material such as rubber or some other elastic material. Typically, the two halves form a beak-like appendage that allows a fluid to flow easily in one direction. A key characteristic of the duckbill check valve is that it requires no intervention to open or close and operates as a result of a pressure differential across the valve – the pressure from a liquid pushes the two-halves ap

Proco Products, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the Proco Product App for use on iOS and Android devices. This new comprehensive app is a useful tool that puts our full catalog of products, brochure pdfs, animations, and other company data right into the palm of your hands. With a fully searchable product list and intuitive navigation, you will always be able to find the technical resources you need, when you need it.

Also available within the app is an offline synchronizat

Proco Products, Inc. is pleased to announce that our Series 440 Molded PTFE Convoluted expansion joint product line in now LIVE on the 3DX Media platform!

3DX Media is one of the biggest CAD part libraries in the world offering 100+ million free 2D and 3D CAD models. Through 3DX, our Series 400 standard products are now available for downloading in various CAD formats such SolidWorks, AutoCAD, ProE and many other compatible CAD formats.

On August 27th, Proco Products, Inc. hosted an informative webinar on the topic – “The Benefits of Using Rubber Expansion Joints”.  This LIVE webinar was presented by Proco North American Industrial Sales Managers, Eric Blazej & David Genna. The webinar covered what an expansion joint is and why you need them, criteria for selection, the different styles and certifications available based on application, best practices for maintenance and replacement and tools to ma

The Proco Style 711/731 ProFlex™ check valves are engineered for installation on pre-existing pipe lines such as manholes, outfalls and vaults where the outfall invert of the pipe is close to the floor of the manhole or outfall. When a new installation is being designed, the 711731 valves can ben engineered into the pipe layout with little concern for outfall clearance due to its “low slope” design.

The new Style 711/731 check valves allow the valves to be i

Just over 300 miles northwest of Santa Monica, CA, where the world’s first marine outfall was installed in 1910, check valves are being re-designed and engineered for outfalls all over the world. Outfalls – which are essentially discharge points of a waste stream into rivers, drains, sewers, or other bodies of water – are located in thousands of places across the planet. Many of these outfalls, sanitary sewer overflows and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) have steel flap gate

Talking to a customer looking for an expansion joint is always important – identifying parameters of what is needed, determining the size and overall length, the temperature of the applications, the application itself, the material moving through the expansion joint, the pressure of the system, including potential vacuums or surge conditions (read Considerations When Shopping for Expansio

Proco Products, Inc., a global leader in the design and supply of expansion joints and check valves would like to announce that they have achieved NSF/ANSI Standard certification  on their ProFlex™ Check Valve product line. This certification verifies that these products can be safely used in drinking water systems, thus showing Proco’s commitment to producing products that meet safety and health standards.

The NSF/ANSI Standard 61 Certification applies to th