Meet the 2026 Sponsors

At its core, MRC Global is a supply-chain solutions company. It connects the world’s best PVF manufacturers with the world’s best gas utility, energy and industrial companies.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company is the largest global distributor of pipe, valve and fittings (PVF) and related products and services to the energy and industrial industries, based on sales.

MRC Global supplies these products and services, along with technical expertise, across each of the gas utility, downstream, industrial and energy transition, upstream production, and midstream pipeline sectors.

They say the best inventions start with a sudden flash of illumination. That’s exactly what happened when A.K. Velan first came up with the idea for a new steam trap a few months after he arrived in Canada in 1949 from Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.

More than six decades later, that same innovative and entrepreneurial spirit continues to flourish in a company that has a proven portfolio of top-quality valves installed in industrial applications worldwide.