Retrofit & Replacement
Upgrade valve performance without replacing the valve body. ORBITRIM designs drop-in replacement trims engineered to reduce cavitation, excessive noise and vibration while retaining your existing valve body and top-works.
Why Retrofit Instead of Replace?
Lower capital cost
Replacing the trim can avoid the cost of replacing a serviceable valve body, actuator and connected piping
Minimal plant modification
Where the existing valve envelope is suitable, the replacement trim is engineered to fit the existing body and top-works without major piping modification.
Reduced downtime
Designed for installation during a planned maintenance window, reducing the disruption associated with full valve replacement.
Improved valve performance
Multi-stage or application-specific trim can address cavitation, excessive noise, vibration.
- Trim design sized to your existing valve body and connection geometry
- Re-engineering of the original trim where the existing design is underperforming.
- Precision-machined trim hardware with material certification
Good fit when…
- The existing valve body and top-works remain serviceable.
- The original trim is obsolete, unavailable or has an impractical OEM lead time.
- You need to address cavitation, noise, vibration or erosion without replacing the complete valve.
- Drawings are unavailable and trim needs to be reconstructed from existing valve dimensional information.
- Process operating data is available or can be obtained.
Probably not this, if…
- — The valve body itself is damaged, cracked, or undersized for the application
- — The application has changed so much a different valve type is now required
- — A complete valve replacement may be required. We'll advise you honestly if a trim retrofit isn't the right solution.
- — There is insufficient dimensional or technical information to establish the existing valve and trim geometry, and the required measurements cannot be obtained.
Why ORBITRIM?
Multi-stage trim designed specifically for your application
Designs are validated foryour operating range.
Engineered for existing valve bodies-Trim designed around the existing valve envelope, connection geometry and operating requirements.
Precision manufacturing with certified materials
Engineering support from diagnosis through commissioning
Do you need the original OEM drawings?
They help, but aren't required. We can work from field measurements of the existing body and internals if drawings aren't available.
What if the original trim is obsolete or no longer available?
We can reconstruct the trim geometry from available information and engineer a replacement for the existing valve.
Will you simply copy the original trim?
Not necessarily. If the original trim is known to be underperforming, we can review the flow geometry and re-engineer it to address the identified performance issue while maintaining the required fit and function.
Ready to stop a valve problem before the next outage?
Send the details—we'll review your application and recommend the right solution.