Glenfield - Water Engineers to the World

by Ian Russell

A KILMARNOCK company is teaming up with its American counterpart to improve the water supply to one of the driest parts of Mexico.

Glenfield Valves in Queens Drive has joined sister company AVK - both are members of the international AVK Group - for the contract which will aid one of the most heavily populated parts of the fifth largest country in the Americas.

The in-house partnership will supply valves to control the flow through a new pipeline that will take water from the Colorado River 40 miles over the mountains to the cities of Tijuana, Tecate and Rosarito on Mexico's north-west coast. The new main will increase the supply to the two million people who live there by 30 per cent.

Graeme Boyce, Managing Director of Glenfield's Kilmarnock plant, said this week: "The company that is laying the main also has run it for the first 15 years, so they need to be sure that everything they put into the ground will do its job properly for many years to come."

"Fortunately both American AVK and ourselves are well-known in Mexico and our products have demonstrated their reliability many times over, all of which helped us ro win the order."

"At the moment, we are busy making sure that the 36 valves we have to supply are completed and dispatched to fit in with the tight schedule for laying the main, which has to be finished in just eight months."