Velan Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets industrial valves worldwide. It provides quarter-turn valves; gate, globe, and check valves; API 600 cast steel gate, globe, and check valves; corrosion-resistant steel gate, globe, and check valves; API 602 small forged gate, globe, and check valves; API 6D/API 6A through conduit and double expanding gate valves; large forged pressure seal and bolted bonnet gate, globe, and check valves; y-pattern valves; proquip dual-plate check valves; API 6D/API 6A non slam and swing check valves; quarter-turn valves; resilient-seated ball valves; securaseal metal-seated ball valves; coker ball valves; API 6D/API 6A pipeline ball valves; modular double block and bleed ball valves; torqseal triple-offset butterfly valves; and other products. The company also offers bimetallic steam traps, trap stations, and manifolds; engineering solutions; and cable drive actuators. The company was formerly known as Velan Engineering Ltd. and changed its name to Velan Inc. in February 1981. Velan Inc. was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada. The company operates as a subsidiary of Velan Holding Co. Ltd.