About Us

Advance Valves is a professionally managed & well renowned industrial valves manufacturing group. It has emerged successfully through its visionary approach & consistent efforts while using advanced technology and efficient processes to achieve the highest standards of Quality & Delivery.

Advance Valves owns the product technology deployed for producing its valve range. Coupled with dedicated in-house engineering, Advance Valves deploys sophisticated means of product development. This is further complemented by stringent testing & quality control, Performance Cycle Testing among others. The Group has up-to-date Design, Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality Control systems, including engineering capabilities in CAD, Surge Analysis, Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Analysis, and other customized tools.

Quality is an integral component in Advance Valves philosophy apart from being ISO 9001:2015, ISO 45001: 2018 and PED 2014/68/EU, Module-H certified. Through adoption of QMS, the organization also demonstrates & focuses as below:

To provide products & applicable servicing that consistently meets customers & applicable legal, statutory & regulatory requirements.
To continually improve & enhance customer satisfaction through effective application of the system including processes for improvement & assurance of conformity to customer’s requirements.
To provide safe and healthy workplace by preventing work related injury and ill health as well as by proactively improving its OH&S performance.

The top management of organization has defined, documented & approved its Quality Policy as an accepted approach towards the commitment for quality.

Uma Shanker

Chairman, Advance Valves

Pranay Shanker Garg

Managing Director, Advance Valves

Mr. Uma Shanker is known as a self-made Entrepreneur with a Global mindset who has always championed for well-engineered products available from India for the world markets. From a humble family with strong values, he graduated with Gold Medal in Mechanical Engineering in 1972 from MNREC (University of Allahabad) and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University in 1982. His Industry experience spans over 50 years.

He started his career with Engineers India Ltd., and thereafter worked with ADNOC Group in Abu Dhabi in the early 80’s. With the zeal to be among the best always, he ventured into entrepreneurship in 1985 and set up Advance Valves at the helm of the difficult license raj. He always preferred Technology in special areas to fill the gap between India and rest of the World and that too not as a part of a conglomerate but on his own from a typical backyard garage. This laid the foundation for him to represent India on the Global platform at par with the rest.

Under his leadership, Advance Valves has always focused on top tier technology and today manufactures complete range of Balancing Valves, Dual Plate Check Valves, Nozzle Flow Check Valves, Lined Butterfly Valves, High Performance Double Offset and Triple Offset Butterfly Valves.

Career highlights:

In 2000, Mr. Shanker became National President of ISHRAE (The Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers).
In 2001, he became the President of ASHRAE (The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Indian Chapter and became Voice of India in ASHRAE.
In early 2000’s, representing Advance Valves as the only Indian Company, he became active and voting member of API’s Sub-Committee of Piping & Valves (SCOPV) and became the Voice of Indian Valves and Supply Chain Industry in API highlighting its strength and created a distinct place from the mix of India & China.
Under his vision and leadership, the recognition and credibility of the Indian valve industry grew manifold amongst Oil & Gas majors across the world, opening doors for more Indian players to follow and get recognized.
In 2010, he took Chairmanship of the CII Valves Division. Under his stewardship, the division was expanded to Valves & Actuator Division, and today Automation also.
His vision of global participation connected Indian Valve industry to CEIR (Europe) and VMA (Americas).
The cross participation of associations was one of the highlights of his leadership.

Mr. Uma Shanker continues to be The Chairman of Advance Valves while being an active social citizen also. He has now handed over the active running of Advance Valves Group to his two sons.