Worldwide, "IVC" brand, which designs and manufactures products such as Sluice Valves, Butterfly Valves, Non Return (Check) Valves, Air Valves, Sluice Gates, Penstocks, Anti Vaccum Valves and Knife Gate Valves. is known to be synonymous with a rugged design, high quality materials, well conceived and durably built valves. However, if one desires to verify the truth regarding IVC products, he is welcome to do so personally by visiting the sites where IVC valves have been installed and he is apt to find that IVC manufactures the best valves which are still in service even after more than 25 years.
The Indian Valves Company, took its birth in September 1966, following closure in India of the internationally renowned hydraulic valve manufacturing company viz : Glenfield and Kennedy Limited, Kilmarnock, Scotland, U.K. A young and dynamic technocrat viz K.K. Bhattacharya — a permanent member of Valves and Gates sub-Committee CED 3:5 for Bureau of Indian Standards and who, after gathering enough technology, experience and expertise during his fifteen years or so association with Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, was instrumental in the promotion and establishment of IVC