Hands-On Valve Expertise
Practical, engineer-led training designed to build capability, confidence, and safe, reliable valve operation.
Specialist Training. Real-World Knowledge.
ACV delivers practical, industry-focused training designed for engineers, maintenance teams, project managers, and technicians working with valves and automated systems.
Each course combines classroom learning with hands-on demonstrations, real components, and expert guidance from our engineering team. Whether you’re improving plant reliability, developing operator competence, or upskilling your workforce, our courses provide the operational understanding needed to handle valves safely, efficiently, and confidently across any industrial environment.
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Practical, structured courses covering valve fundamentals, safe operation, maintenance, and automation. Each programme is designed to build technical confidence and support on-site reliability.
Before We Do Valves
This introductory course focuses on critical factors that influence valve selection and specification.
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Valve Manufacturing Methods & Processes
Our Manufacturing Methods course delivers fundamental education designed to understand how valve construction affects performance, reliability, and application suitability.
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Floating Ball Valves
Focusing on their design principles, operational mechanisms, advantages, limitations and practical applications in various industrial sectors.
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Trunnion Mounted Ball Valve
This course will provide an in-depth exploration of trunnion mounted ball valves, covering their design, operation and key features.
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Seats and Seals
Essential education designed to understand material selection across all pressure classes and service conditions.
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Concentric and Double Offset Butterfly Valves
Understand the fundamental differences between these two butterfly valve technologies and their appropriate applications.
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Triple Offset Butterfly Valves
Our Triple Offset Butterfly Valves course delivers specialised education designed to understand advanced butterfly valve technology and its industrial applications.
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Actuators Vs Valves
Our Actuators vs Valves course delivers essential education designed to bridge the gap between valve requirements and actuator capabilities.
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Air Torque Pneumatic Actuators
Targeted education designed to understand actuator selection, sizing, and application across different valve types and process conditions.
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Find the course that interests you most and best supports your professional development. We offer a wide range of options, from foundational basics to advanced and technical aspects of valve operations and maintenance.
Benefits
- Advance your professional development
- Strengthen your team’s technical expertise
- Provide robust support for industry newcomers
- Receive hands-on, tailored education with our industry-leading products
- Develop in-depth knowledge of our products and services offering
- Ensure the safe and efficient performance of installed systems
- Learn the operation, maintenance, and optimisation of our valves and actuators in detail
Cost of course
We offer a selection of courses for both existing and new customers. Additionally, we provide a wide range of in-depth training programmes tailored to suit various budgets. Contact us to discuss your training needs and find the right course for you.
Hospitality
- Any travel or accommodation costs will be incurred by you, the customer.
- We do recommend the following hotels at competitive rates: The Field Head (5 minute drive to ACV offices), Holiday Inn at St Nicholas Circle (30 minute drive).
- If you wish to stay in the city centre, we recommend the Holiday Inn and Novotel Leicester hotel venues. We can also suggest an assortment of restaurants and ca
Other services
Browse below to learn more about some of our other key valve services including our exceptionally diverse inventory of valve stocks, meeting the team behind the ACV name, and what you can expect touring our in-house engineering department where you can see first hand how our manufacturing capabilities can help you and your business.
“An excellent training session for those wanting a deeper understanding of valve design and selection.”
Valued ACV customer
Enhance your skills with ACV training
Improve Safety & Reliability
Our courses help operators understand equipment behaviour, prevent common failures, and handle valves safely, reducing downtime and improving plant reliability.
Boost Team Competence
Teams gain structured, practical knowledge that increases confidence when operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting valves and actuators.
Real-World Engineering Guidance
Training is delivered by engineers with decades of hands-on experience, ensuring every session reflects real applications — not generic theory.
How to find us
If you’ve got your training scheduled, plan your route now. We’re less than a 40 minute drive from Leicester city centre which means finding nearby accommodation or evening activities once your training is over won’t be a problem.
Bardon Hill, LE67 1PH
United Kingdom
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