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Welcome to Ascendant Technologies..................

Ascendant Technologies supplies complex technical products for 2 niche areas;

Ascendant Valve Automation Centre

builds and supplies heavy duty valve automation systems for Oil, Gas and Power sectors suitable for both rotary and linear valves.

Ascendant Steam Systems

specifies and supplies safety valves and venturi steam traps for the Oil, Gas, Power and Chemical sectors.

Position sensing down to 21,000ft
Sub-sea valve control presents many problems for the design engineer. Ascendant is able to solve the issue of position sensing by supplying non-contact position switches certified down to 21,000ft. More

Nuclear limit switches
Ascendant Technologies has delivered numerous projects using the P7 and N7 ranges of IEEE approved leverless limit switches. Switches satisfy the arduous industry tests involving siesmic qualification at ambient and at elevated temperatures which simulate a fault situation on Plant. More

Flowbus Corporation appoint Ascendant
Flowbus Corporation of Seoul, South Korea have appointed Ascendant Technologies as an exclusive distributor. The agreement was signed at Ascendants' premises in South Wales by Mr. Park, President of Flowbus and Mrs. Moon, International Sales Manager during a meeting in September 2008. More

New range of Flowbus hydraulic actuators
Flowbus Corporation have announced the launch of a new range of hydraulic actuators to complement their existing pneumatic actuator range which extends to 800,000NM. Ascendant has secured their first order for the new product for a major Oil Company in the UK North Sea. More

Andy gets trained!
Andy McDuff, General Manager of Ascendant Technologies has recently returned from a week of intense training at the Flowbus factory in Seoul. Andy was particularly impressed with the attention to quality at Flowbus and the fantastic warmth and hospitality he received from all of the staff he was involved with. More

Flowbus to ONGC
Ascendant have recently supplied a number of EPA series heavy duty scotch yoke actuators to ONGC, India via a well known UK Ball Valve manufacturer. Each unit was fitted with stainless steel Eexd IIC switchbox, stainless steel AFR and solenoid. More

SIL-3 rated emergency shut-down valve controllers
Ascendant Technologies is now able to supply a full SIL-3 (Safety Integrity Level 3) valve controller globally certified for emergency shut-down applications in hazardous areas.Local push-button control is possible in addition to remote PST (Partial Stroke Test). More

Bopp & Reuther appoint Ascendant
Bopp & Reuther Sicherheits und Regelarmaturen GmbH, manufacturers of pressure safety and control valves has appointed Ascendant Technologies as their exclusive UK sdistributor. More

ISO9001:2008
Ascendant Technologies is pleased to announce that following external audit, we have been successful in obtaining ISO9001:2008 certification. A copy of the certificate is available from the download page. More

Swagelok certification
Ascendant Technician Stephen Lewis, recently completed an intensive training course at Swagelok UK. As a result, he is now "Swagelok Certified" to install Swagelok fittings and equipment, specifically onto the Valve Actuators supplied by Ascendant. More

Relaunch of the EPR rack and pinion actuator
Flowbus have re-launched the EPR aluminium rack and pinion actuator range with increased quality and lower price-point. EPR will be in stock at Ascendant by mid-April 2010. More

Flowbus for Apache
Ascendant Technologies have supplied a number of Flowbus scotch yoke heavy duty actuators to Apache oil in the UK north sea fitted to ANSI1500# hub-end metal seated Ball Valves. More

First Point Assessment (FPAL)
Ascendant Technologies are now listed as a specialist valve automation supplier on the FPAL database. More

Electro-hydraulic actuators
Ascendant Technologies has launched Electro-hydraulic actuators based on the Flowbus scotch yoke valve actuator. These 90 degree rotary actuators are particularly suitable for pipeline Ball Valves and Triple Offset Butterfly Valves and can be specified spring return fail closed. More

Gas Over Oil actuators
Ascendant Technologies has launched Gas Over Oil actuators based on the Flowbus scotch yoke valve actuator. These 90 degree unitsare particularly suitable for remote locations such as pipelines and can be specified with line-break capability to fail closed. More

This website has been part funded by the European Union Objective 1 Fund and Torfaen Economic Development

Ascendant Technologies Ltd.
Tel: +44 (0)870 900 9121
Fax: +44 (0)870 900 9122
Email: info@ascendant-technologies.com