Dresser Utility Solutions Today
Dresser Utility Solutions is a leading provider of measurement, instrumentation, piping solutions and over pressure protection devices to the natural gas and utility markets, including the water, gas and electric sectors throughout the world. Our portfolio includes gas metering and volume correction devices ranging from small commercial loads of 800 acfh up to large industrial applications of 102,000 acfh, a broad portfolio of pipeline integrity solutions for gas and water systems, residential and commercial/industrial pressure regulators, high-performance pressure relief devices, chemical injection pumps and both rotary electric and linear electric actuators.
For more than a century, our culture has focused on the customer. We understand the importance of partnering with a company you know and trust, who has the expertise, the technology, the resources and the bandwidth to meet the challenges of infrastructure projects around the world.
Our History Holds Strong and True
For over a century, Dresser Utility Solutions has been a leading worldwide manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered infrastructure for critical service applications for natural gas and utility industries. Accuracy, dependability, and low maintenance of our equipment has been proven over time. We also have a solid reputation for providing customers with products and technologies that drive performance, efficiency, growth, and safety.
The Dresser legacy was born in 1880 when Solomon R. Dresser began providing products to the petroleum industry near Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA. Well over 100 years of engineering and manufacturing expertise are the bedrock behind the innovation inherent in today’s organization. Dresser Utility Solutions leverages this storied history with contemporary technologies which incorporate unsurpassed accuracy, reliability, precision, and most importantly, integrity, across all our product lines.
From Solomon R. Dresser’s first coupling patent in 1886 to our latest innovative products, our product line has continued to evolve to meet the needs of our customers. Here at Dresser Utility Solutions, we are strategically focused and dedicated to serving our customers’ individualized needs.
The formula for Solomon Dresser’s legacy is simple and still holds true today. Beyond the ever-expanding markets we serve, the key to our success is the employees of Dresser sharing new ideas, embracing personal accountability, demonstrating integrity and respect in all aspects of our business and a continued focus on helping our customers perform better.
At Dresser Utility Solutions, our business continues to focus on energy and infrastructure. We are a global provider recognized for our robust equipment and customer focused approach to mission- critical applications. Our reputation is built upon a proven history of delivering high quality products and maintaining long-term relationships with leading companies across the world, some of which exceed a century of continued service.
Our Product History
Dresser™ Measurement
Today, Dresser Measurement is a total solutions provider:
Dresser Measurement offers accuracy, dependability, and low maintenance in custody transfer measurement applications. The time-proven Dresser meter is the preferred rotary positive displacement gas meter in distribution, transmission and production segments for accurate measurement from the well to the burner.
Manufactured in North America, our robust and reliable product line reaches across multiple measurement functions to provide a wide range of measurement capabilities for commercial and industrial applications, as well as for lower volume high pressure applications.
Early Dresser Gas Meter
Since the 1920 introduction of the world’s first rotary meter for gas measurement, the Dresser ROOTS Meter is still recognized globally as an industry pillar in quality, performance, and reliability. And with the evolution of gas measurement technology over the past century, our product line continues to evolve as well.
Along with providing rotary meters ranging in size from 500 to 102,000 acfh (17,6 to 27338,1 m3/h), the Dresser product family expanded to include a full line of electronic instruments ranging from simple solid state volume pulse output devices to advanced volume correction Instruments, such as the globally recognized Micro Corrector family of products. Also, the Dresser Model 6 prover systems continue to provide the industry leading solution for field and shop measurement of rotary meter accuracy.
The focus of Dresser Measurement is to continue the century old legacy of placing the customer first while providing reliable gas measurement technologies and solutions. Through unsurpassed customer care and innovation, Dresser Measurement works to exceed customer needs.
Actaris Gas Measurement
Actaris Gas Measurement commercial and industrial meters are designed to provide the European market with continuous, accurate gas measurement in the gas distribution, gas transmission and gas production segments, as well as industrial in-plant applications.
Dresser™ Pipeline Solutions – The Original Dresser Coupling
In 1880, Solomon R. Dresser established the S.R. Dresser Manufacturing Company in the town of Bradford, Pennsylvania, to produce an oil well packer he had improved upon and patented. For over 140 years, many thousands of products and services bear the Dresser trademark of quality, so for the long-term security of your investment in piping systems, look for products bearing the Dresser trademark.
Today, Dresser Pipeline Solutions provides design and advances in pipe joining repair and pressure control technology with an unmatched variety of pipe joining, repair and pressure control solutions for the energy and transmission industries.
The Dresser Pipeline Solutions plant in Bradford, Pennsylvania remains a leading supplier of high-performance pipeline products supplying a variety of couplings, fittings, valves, repair clamps, integrity repair sleeves, and service connectors for water and wastewater, natural gas transmission and distribution systems, and general pipeline industry applications.
Dresser™ Utility Solutions UK
High Pressure Reduction Skids
Dresser Utility Solutions UK is dedicated to providing the best engineered solution for the design, development and manufacture of gas measurement and control products, distribution and transmission systems and skid solutions.
A unique combination of technologies and in-house expertise means Dresser Utility Solutions UK has all the essential elements to manage multi-discipline projects. All aspects of design, construction and operation of gas measurement and pressure regulation are project managed to reduce the end user’s engineering and administration costs.
Based in the United Kingdom and serving customers throughout the Eastern hemisphere, the Dresser Utility Solutions UK operation can supply a broad range of products including Rotary Displacement Meters, Electronic measurement products, Pressure Regulation equipment, Dresser Piping Products and Control equipment including meter and service regulators, high pressure regulators and complete metering and regulation skids.
Dresser Utility Solutions UK will also serve as a manufacturing, sales and service base for Dresser Pipeline Solutions and Flow Safe product lines.
Flow Safe
The new addition to the Dresser Utility Solutions family, Flow Safe manufactures spring-operated and pilot-operated high performance over pressure protection devices focused on applications in natural gas distribution, pipeline, aerospace, marine, industrial gases and other liquid and gas process applications.
Flow Safe is focused on its relationships with gas utility risk managers, systems engineers, over-pressure protection specialists, measurement managers and technicians, all of whom realize value from Flow Safe’s industry-leading over pressure protection solutions and industry-leading 3-year product warranty.
Actaris Gas Regulators
Actaris Gas Regulators and Safety Devices offer the European and International market a variety of high performance, rapid response regulators for use in residential and commercial and industrial applications such as district, city gate stations, heating plants and industrial boilers.
ROOTS Regulators
ROOTS Regulators offers North American markets a variety of rapid response, high performance regulators for residential and commercial and industrial applications.
Nibsco Automation
Acquired as part of the Flow Safe acquisition, Nibsco has more than 50 years of experience in automation applications, while providing solutions to many different kinds of applications in the oil & gas, water and wastewater, chemical plant and compressor station markets.
Based in Orchard Park, New York and Pennsylvania, Nibsco offers a wide range of products with a stocking program that ensures very low lead times and on-time delivery, complete with field install when required.
ANDCO™ Actuators
Introduced in 1974, Andco actuator products have been an industry leader in linear electric actuators for the automation of dry material handling or flow control equipment. Andco actuators are self-contained, electro-mechanical actuators designed for reliable, precise, controlled motion including but not limited to lifting and lowering, pushing and pulling and opening and closing. With ease of installation and low maintenance costs, Andco actuator technology offers durability and performance for a full range of functions.
Whether used in the operation of a slide gate for product blending, moving industrial doors or providing accurate positioning of satellite antennas, customers have relied on Andco actuator solutions. Available in a wide variety of stroke lengths from 6-inches to 60-inches with speeds from 0.2 IPS to 12.0 IPS.
RCS™ Actuators
Since 1968, RCS has manufactured a broad selection of quarter-turn, multi-turn, and the industry leading SurePowr series of spring-return electric actuators designed to address the most severe and demanding service requirements.
A variety of torques, speeds, and hazardous location certifications provide customers with solutions to your most challenging process requirements.
All RCS actuators are proudly made in the USA.
Texsteam™ Pumps
Founded in 1938, TexsteamTM has been a prominent supplier of quality chemical injection pumps to oil and gas industries worldwide. Texsteam Pumps offer a broad range of pneumatic, electric and solar powered pump solutions to keep a pipeline flowing or neutralize substances in natural gas to improve well production.
The Texsteam line of chemical injection pumps features a large selection of positive displacement chemical injection pumps to meet the needs of many applications with sizes and models to meet today’s challenging production environment.