VAAS Group - Manual,Pneumatic,Electric,Hydraulic Operated Knife Gate Valves & Ball valves.

VAAS is a dedicated, ISO 9001 Company established in 1984 in Chennai, India in technical and financial collaboration with a leading US Manufacturer. The name "VAAS" expands to "Valves, Actuators, Automation & Solutions

VAAS has an extensive list of satisfied customers from various industry sectors like Thermal Power, Pulp & Paper, Mining, Cement, Carbon Black, Steel, Chemical & Petrochemical and Water & Wastewater worldwide spanning all continents from South America to Australia. 

In Pulp& Paper Industry (Wood based, Non-wood Agro based such as Bamboo, Cereal Straws, Bagasse, Waste & Recycled), various types of VAAS Uni-Directional & Bi-Directional Knife Gate Valves ranging from 2" to 60" find applications right from Digester Feed, Washing, Cleaning, Bleaching (both Hypo & Cl O2 process), Final high density pulp tower, Stock preparation, Head box up to Wet & Dry end driers, Effluent Treatment plants, and in sludge thickening. In VAAS, Uni-Directional & Bi-Directional Valves are categorized as 900 Series & 700 series.  Model Nos. FIG950, FIG940, FIG960 (Uni-Directional) & FIG740, FIG752, FIG780 (Bi-Directional) generally find applications in Pulp& Paper Industry. In particular FIG780, a two-piece, bolted body, through-going O-port Bi-Directional valve is the best answer in tough applications like High -Density Cleaners, reject recycled paper stock in De-inking plants. Vaas’ Uni-Directional Valve range also has V-Port Knife Gate Valves which can control high consistency pulp.

Operation (Actuators)

Manual Actuators include various types like Hand Wheel (Rising & Non-Rising), Gear Hand Wheel, Chain Wheel, Lever & Extension Hand wheel. Pneumatic Actuators include Double Acting, Double Acting with fail safe System (alternate to spring return Actuators where Fail Open / Close options are required). Actuators with FRP / Metallic Cylinder Tubes considering Temperature and Corrosive media / environment.

Other types of Actuators:

Electric & Hydraulic (Special Materials of Construction):

For handling bleached pulp applications Knife Gate Valves with special materials like SS-316L, SS-317L, SMO254, Hastelloy-C22, Alloy20, CD4MCu shall be supplied apart from the standard SS-304/SS-316 MOC.

High Performance Ball Valves: The Group Company, VAAS Automation Private Limited, established in 1995 with Technical & Financial collaboration with a leading Multinational, Ball Valve & Actuator manufacturer, serves all the above listed Industries with their standard Ball Valves (Full / Regular Bore) and special Ball Valves  like High Pressure Ball valves (High Pressure showers), Special MOC Ball valves in Bleach Plants, Valves for thermal fluids, Digester in flow lines, steam & utility areas.

Actuators Type:  Lever, Wrench, VAAS Pneumatic Actuators (Double Acting/Spring Return), Electric Actuators.

VAAS’ Indian Customers include Tamil Nadu Newsprint& Papers Ltd (Bagasse Based), Hindustan Newsprint Limited, Ballarpur Papers Limited (now AVANTA Group), ITC Limited, J K Papers, Seshasayee Paper Boards Limited, Century Pulp &Papers Limited, Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited, Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Limited. Some of the overseas customers include Advance Agro Public Ltd., Thailand, ANH BINH Paper Vietnam, Arab Pulp & Paper Saudi Arabia, Atrak Pulp& Paper Iran, Carter Holt Harvey New Zealand, and Amcor Australia.