Maxton Valve Continuing Education – Colley Elevator

 

Last week Maxton Valve provided classroom and hands on training for approximately 30 technicians; broken into 3 classes.  In whatever industry you dwell, it is so important you continue to learn, sharpen your tools and keep an open mind.  We like to bring our vendors in to educate us on their product so we can better install it, maintain it and troubleshoot it. 

Maxton Valve – Maxton Valve is the largest hydraulic valve manufacturer in the United States and comprises 85% of the hydraulic valves in our portfolio of hydraulic elevators.  Maxton Manufacturing Company has been a leading manufacturer of hydraulic elevator control valves since 1968. They are pioneers in lightweight aluminum valves – aircraft-quality cast, machined with CNC precision, specifically for the elevator industry. From their national headquarters in Minden, Nevada, southeast of Reno and Lake Tahoe, Maxton Manufacturing serves customers throughout North America, Canada and Mexico, Central / South America as well as Asia, the South Pacific and the Middle East.

 

Class room – We spent about 2 hours learning about the valves, products, differences in the valves and how to size them properly.  Maxton talked from top to bottom about potential issues in multiple scenarios.

 

Hands on troubleshooting – The next 2 hours was spent on the box where we got to do adjusting, troubleshooting and overall learning how the valve works.

Person to person interactions – The value in having one of Maxton’s head troubleshooters out to walk us through what he sees everyday was invaluable.  Now many of our technicians have a point of reference and a relationship with the person they may talk on the phone with if they have a problem that needs technical support.

Thank you – A big thanks to Karl and Landon for coming out and putting on a wonderful set of training sessions for us.  It was great to catch up with them in person, the last time I really got to spend any time with them in person was in Boston in 2015 when they were nice enough to take me out to dinner at an NAEC convention.  Still great dudes and it was great to catch up!

If you have any questions or would like additional information feel free to contact me at CraigZ@colleyelevator.com or 630-766-7230 ext. 107. 

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