PVL Solves the UK’s drought problem

10 May 2012

With the current arid conditions plaguing the UK and no one knowing where our next drop of rain is coming from, the finger-on-the-pulse marketing-gurus at PVL thought this was a perfect time to highlight a number of their products that provide dry pump protection. Most engineers, struggling into work in the present heat-wave, know only [...]

The PVL–Titanic: If PVL branched out into Hollywood

13 April 2012

2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The intriguing tale of this infamous and ill-fated ship has received much attention over the years, including James Cameron’s 1997 epic film. Now, while we do acknowledge the tragedy of the real life event, here at PVL we’ve had an idea that might just [...]

Switch on your radio!

26 March 2012

~David Almond does Desert Island Discs 70th anniversary~ Earlier this year, BBC Radio 4 celebrated the seventieth anniversary of Desert Island Disks. As the longest-running factual programme in the history of radio, the weekly show features a guest “castaway” who’s allowed to choose eight pieces of music, a book and a luxury item for their [...]

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Downtime – there’s nothing funny about that

16 March 2012

When systems fail, it is often a simple part that shuts an application down. And unlike the typical light-hearted approach of our blog, there’s nothing funny about that! In today’s post, David Almond, PVL’s head of sales and marketing explains why pressure switches are often overlooked. Pressure switches are incredibly common in process plants, yet [...]

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iPad winners & bad drivers

7 February 2012

Congratulations to Mark Aylott, Director of Car Spares Limited in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, who’s pictured here receiving his new iPad from David Almond (the more sensible looking one on the right) as the winner of our recent prize draw for respondents to our recent survey. Many thanks to all our customers who kindly responded; we’ve [...]

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PVL gets switched on to programmable digital pressure transducers

31 January 2012

~ East Sussex based switch distributor launches fully programmable digital pressure transducer ~ Switch distributor Pressure Vacuum Level (PVL) has launched Transducer Direct’s TD1000 digital pressure transducer in the UK. The new transducer is fully digital and entirely programmable, which saves the end user both time and money. Furthermore, thanks to the fact that the [...]

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Engineers’ New Years Resolutions

27 January 2012

How to make sure you stick to your New Year’s resolutions – an engineer’s guide New Year’s resolutions have been a tradition since the times of the ancient Babylonians. Pretty much as we do today, they promised their gods at the start of each year that they would return borrowed objects and pay their debts. [...]

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John Craven, You Tube, and PVL

13 December 2011

Those of you who grew up in the UK will no doubt have happy memories of the children’s news and current affairs programme Newsround. It’s just celebrated its 40th anniversary and its original presenter John Craven accepted a special British Academy award, which recognised its contribution to children’s television, on behalf of the show recently. [...]

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PVL has SWIGger

29 November 2011

PVL recently attended the Sensing in Water 2011 conference, hosted by SWIG (the Sensors for Interest in Water Group) in Nottingham. This was the first two-day event the not-for-profit organisation had arranged and our representatives, Jamie Clowes and David Almond, took advantage of the show in decidedly different ways! While David SWIGged his way around [...]

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B is for beaches: Heading south for the winter!

23 November 2011

Steve Moorey, PVL’s intrepid managing director, has just embarked on a gruelling two month working trip to Australia, during which he will spend a day meeting Kelco, one of PVL’s key manufacturing partners. The rest of the two months is going to be an arduous mix of restaurants, culture and beaches… But arranging the trip [...]

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