Success at Custom Valve Concepts continues to be a direct result of the openness to share our knowledge; to educate, provide thought leadership and have interesting conversations with visitors to our facility, website and via social listening posts such as LinkedIn, Twitter and more.

We began our journey in 1942, producing leather tooling and other products for manufacturing. When the market evolved, so did W.A. Kates Company. Today, Custom Valve Concepts still produces the quality Kates Valves, researched and developed, and manufactured in-house. With some products still in use after 50 years, we’re proud of our work and our service to customers. 

The complete instrument engineer knows that behind the glitter of digital control technology lies another world of mechanical field instrument devices from which process control was born. Digital electronics may dutifully perform in a "0" or "1" state, but the artful precision and imaginative designs of analog mechanical field instruments are marvels that often go unnoticed by new generations of control professionals.