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Dixon Bayco will be exhibiting at the Pacific Fuels and Convenience Summit in San Diego, California from September 4-5. Visit us at booth 613.

The fall edition of BOSS magazine is now available!  Click here to check it out.

Dixon Brass announces their domestically produced lead-free products comply with NSF®/ANSI 61 certification as of July 22, 2019.  Certification to NSF®/ANSI 61-2017 ensures that lead-free products meet the regulatory requirements for drinking water system components in the U.S. and Canada.   Series with NSF®/ANSI 61 certification include:   102 Lead-Free – Hose Barb x Male NPTF 104 Lead-Free - Hose Barb x Female NPTF 143 Lead-Free - Female Swivel Hose Barb x JIC/ SAE 178 Lead-Free – Hose Splicer 272 Lead-Free – Lok-on Hose Barb x Male NPTF 370 Lead-...

On June 24, 2019, Dixon’s Bayco division moved to a 40,000 sq. foot building in West Chester, Ohio. The building has 2,500 sq. feet of clean room electronic assembly space, engineering test labs for pressure and flow testing, manufacturing space for CNC manufacturing and electronic assembly and testing, design space, and room for training! We are proud to be expanding our manufacturing operations and to support jobs in the USA.

In this blog we will demonstrate how simple the 5500-series API coupler is to break down, service, rebuild, and return to service. A routine maintenance schedule will ensure the safe and correct function of the coupler.

As the debate over new infrastructure legislation heats up in Washington D.C., we thought it might be a good time to repost an article Ribbons Across the Land originally published in our Dixon Boss magazine in the spring of 2006. We hope you enjoy re-visiting the feature.

Dixon loading arms are used to aid in the transfer of liquids and dry bulk materials. You will see loading arms at railcar and tank truck terminals, refineries and chemical plants, and food and beverage plants. They are even used to assist in the filling of drums and totes. In applications like these, loading arms can be a preferred transfer option to a standard hose assembly.

When it’s critically important to keep a gas or liquid inside a system, consider a bellows seal valve. Bellows seal valves incorporate a cylindrical metal tube that expands and contracts like an accordion to create a hermetically sealed closure in a valve stem. The bellows gets compressed when the valve is in the open position and expands when the valve is closed. Because the bellows expands and contracts as the valve is operated, and because it is welded to the stem and bonnet, there is no leak path for the gas or liquid to escape.

In its simplest terms, a filtration system isolates one substance from another. They can be as rudimentary as a strainer used to filter pasta from boiling water or as complex as a metropolitan water treatment plant. However a filter is used, it’s important that you use the right type of filter for the job; otherwise, mishaps will occur. (You wouldn’t use a colander with wide holes to drain a small pasta like orzo, would you?)

Is history repeating itself? Just as the horse was slowly replaced by the automobile, is the gasoline automobile slowly being replaced by the electric vehicle? Whether the electric vehicle will ever directly replace the gasoline automobile or not is debatable, but along with renewable fuels, electric vehicles will undoubtedly dilute the demand for gasoline over time as fewer and fewer gasoline-fueled automobiles are on the road.

At the turn of the 20th century, there were just over 8,000 automobiles in the United States. By 1910 that number had grown to nearly 500,000. Today there are over 285 million motor vehicles on the road. The transition from the horse-drawn carriage to the automobile is an amazing story that didn’t just happen overnight. By many accounts, it took over fifty years for Americans to replace their trusted horses with the new and unfamiliar technology. Horses had been mankind’s dependable transportation for thousands of years, and many Americans believed that automobiles were unsafe.

If your business can’t afford to compromise on cleanliness, you’ve likely heard about CIP, otherwise known as Clean-In-Place. Clean-In-Place is a specialized method of sanitizing a manufacturing system’s interior contact surfaces—its valves, pipes, fittings, and tanks—without disassembling equipment. CIP methods are employed in a variety of industries, from pharmaceuticals to food and beverage to paint and chemicals to personal care products—or in any production environment that demands sanitary conditions.