Valves are a crucial component of process design for any industrial manufacturing application that involves fluid handling and processing; they are critical in ensuring liquids, gases, or slurries are delivered to a process in a regulated fashion and for preventing unintended product flow or mixing of fluid streams. At the same time, they must be designed to prevent contamination of product streams and safe, continuous operation of processes that utilize fluids of varying compositions at a wide range of temperatures and pressures.  Sanitary [...]