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The Valves Association is the network of manufacturers of building and industrial valves in the VDMA.
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The VDMA Regulatory Cockpit provides clear, practical fact sheets on the most important regulations for mechanical and plant engineering, offering an at-a-glance overview. You can find out which industries are affected, what the schedule looks like, where action is needed and what sanctions can be expected. It is a valuable guide for any company looking to prepare for new requirements at an early stage.
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Interested companies can register for the fifth edition of the IWWI in Cairo, Egypt, until September 10th, 2025.
Representatives of the sanitary fittings industry and component manufacturers are represented in the working group. The group focuses on hygiene and the prevention of contamination with germs and bacteria.
valve World Expo 2026 in Düsseldorf is approaching - and with it the question of how the trade fair can further develop its role as a platform for the global valve industry. As an industry association, we are supporting this process strategically and in an advisory capacity in order to align the trade fair specifically with the needs of industrial valve manufacturers.
Together with our host LESER GmbH & Co. KG, we would like to cordially invite you to the next WAI meeting with a pre-event on November 25/26, 2025 in Hamburg. On the evening before, November 25, we will meet for dinner together at the Port Restaurant in the Hotel Hafen Hamburg at 7:00 pm. The next day (26.11.), the WAI meeting will take place from 09:00 to 14:30 at our member company LESER GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg.
Product Category Rules (PCRs) are specific rules & requirements that define how the environmental product declaration should be prepared for a specific product category. They contain instructions for carrying out the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) or for creating Product Carbon Footprints (PCF). This makes them a key tool for ensuring consistency, transparency and ecological comparability between products with the same function.
The economic conditions and sales markets in the building valves industry remain volatile - and the "autumn of reforms" is still a long time coming. This makes it all the more important to maintain an overview: We cordially invite you to our next online economic update on building fittings - on 28. November 2025 from 10:00-11:30 a.m
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