SNAP-TITE DIVISIONS - Snap-tite is a leading original equipment manufacturer with plants in the USA and the Republic of Ireland with over 400 employees worldwide. Products include quick disconnect hose couplings and hydraulic valves along with our two Autoclave Engineers divisions that provide products designed for high and ultra-high pressures and temperatures including valves, fittings, research reactors and vessels.
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Autoclave Engineers Fluid Components Division
Autoclave Engineers was founded by Fred Gashe in 1945 to fill a gap in the world of high pressure and high temperature technology. Autoclave has since created and produced many novel pressure vessel and reaction vessel designs as well as having made significant breakthroughs in high pressure technology such as the MagneDrive R magnetically coupled agitator. We have made these developments through a commitment to constant innovation and the best engineering minds available.
Snap-tite Quick Disconnect and Hydraulic Valve Division
For over 75 years Snap-tite has been at the forefront in the design and manufacturing of quick disconnect couplings and hydraulic valves used in hundreds of markets and industries. Snap-tite is the innovator of the dry-break quick disconnect that reduces the spillage that is common to standard poppet style coupling designs. These quick release couplings assist with EPA requirements and help keep equipment and facilities free of seeping fluids.
From the ocean floor, where specially designed quick couplings play a vital role in oil and gas and other deep water projects to the vastness of space where Snap-tite quick disconnects have operated on space vehicles beginning with the earliest NASA programs, Snap-tite products are in demand by the best of engineers.
Since 1945, Autoclave Engineers Fluid Components has been the worldwide expert in the design and production of low, medium and high pressure valves, fittings and tubing. We manufacture our products to be safe and reliable while operating under extreme pressure and temperature conditions. With pressures ranging from a full vacuum to 10,000 psi, 20,000 psi, 30,0000 psi, 60,0000 psi and up to 150,000 psi (10345 bar) we are the first choice for high pressure applications in the chemical, petrochemical, water blast, waterjet, and oil and gas industries.
