Company History

Established in 1919, Hunt Valve Company was founded to manufacture severe service duty valves to the U.S. steel industry. With the end of World War I and the advent of assembly line manufacturing, America’s “heavy”industrial revolution was in full swing. Hunt quickly became known as a supplier of reliable, heavy-duty valves in a variety of growing U.S. industries.

Hunt’s well known reliability served us well in the years following World War II. The post-war economic boom saw numerous American engineering firms exporting heavy industrial machinery all over the world. Hunt valves were the product of choice on many of these machines because product reliability was critical in these distant isolated locations. Hunt products can be found today in steel, aluminum, paper, rubber, hydroelectric and nuclear power plants on all six industrialized continents.

Hunt’s affiliation with the U.S. Navy dates back to the early days of submarine development with the supply of a pneumatic valve used to control the periscope up/down function. This valve was later used in a similar submarine application for the snorkel up/down function. Hunt also supplied valves for the first nuclear powered submarine –The USS Nautilus –in the early 1950’s. Hunt valves continue to be installed on all U.S. Navy submarines.

Hunt expanded its role as a valve supplier to the U.S. Navy through a variety of acquisitions. Hunt developed new valve solutions for Naval applications by utilizing our extremely rugged industrial valve designs. Hunt has also customized several industrial valve designs to meet MIL-SPEC requirements. These valves are manufactured to LEVEL I, SUB-SAFE credentials. As the technological requirements aboard U.S. Naval vessels continue to evolve, Hunt continues to develop engineering solutions to meet them. We are a current supplier of valves for the Virginia Class Submarine, Nimitz Class Carrier and other surface combatants. We are working on product solutions for the new Ford Class Aircraft Carriers.

Proprietary Engineering is the greatest asset that our engineering and manufacturing firm offers to our customers. While the past years have seen many American manufacturing companies meet their demise, Hunt continues to maintain a position of global leadership in the supply of reliable, heavy-duty industrial and military valves. Hunt’s area of specialty is the manufacture of high pressure valves that handle corrosive low viscosity fluids including raw water and sea water. Hunt produces valves that can handle 3500 GPM (13,300 LPM) of raw water at pressures over 5000 PSIG (350 Bar).

Today, Hunt is the unquestioned world leader in Descale Valve technology. The primary application for these valves is to control the high pressure water for the removal of scale during the hot rolling of steel slabs into coils. Hunt is the market leader in most major steel producing markets including: China, India, Taiwan, Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and the USA.

It is not easy to maintain a dominating position in these ultra-competitive markets. Hunt sustains this envious position by continuing to invest in our number one asset – our engineers. We design products with proprietary technology that is the result of 90 years of accumulated expertise. At Hunt, we take pride in our American manufacturing base and our philosophy of developing and implementing patented valve engineering technology.