Standards

AMS’s complete product line is designed, manufactured and tested in full accordance with API, ASME
and International standards. The following list contains the most applicable standards for AMS
Ball, Gate, Globe, Check and Butterfly Valve product line.

AMERICAN STANDARDS

American Petroleum Institute

  • API-6D – Specification for Pipeline Valves
  • API-6A – Specification for Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment
  • API-6FA – Specification for Fire Test for Valves
  • API-594 – Check Valves: Wafer, Wafer Lug, & Double Flanged Type
  • API-598 – Valve Inspection & Testing
  • API-600 – Bolted Bonnet Steel Gate Valves for Petroleum & Natural Gas Industries
  • API-602 – Compact Steel Gate Valves – Flanged, Threaded, Welding & Extended – Body Ends
  • API-607 – Fire Test for Soft-Seated Quarter-Turn Valves
  • API-608 – Metal Ball Valves – Flanged, Threaded, & Welding End
  • API-609 – Butterfly Valves: Double Flanged, Lug & Wafer-Type
  • API-Q1 – Specifications for Quality Programs for the Petroleum, Petrochemical & Natural Gas

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

  • ASME B1.20.1 – Pipe Threads, General Purpose (inch)
  • ASME B16.11 – Forged Fittings, Socket-Welding & Threaded
  • ASME B16.10 – Face to Face & End to End Dimensions of Valves
  • ASME B16.5 – Pipe Flanges & Flanged Fittings NPS 1/2 ~ NPS 24
  • ASME B16.47 – Large Diameter Steel Flanges NPS 26 ~ NPS 60
  • ASME B16.25 – Buttwelding Ends
  • ASME B16.34 – Valves – Flanged, Threaded & Welding End

International Standards

  • ISO 9001:2008 – Quality Management Systems
  • ISO 14001 – Environmental Management
  • OHSAS 18001:2007 – Occupational Health & Safety Management System
  • ISO/TS 29001 – Petroleum, Petrochemical & Natural Gas Industries – Sector Specific QMS
  • CE/PED – Pressure Equipment Directive
  • GOST – Russian National Technical Standards
  • CRN – Canadian Registration Number
  • Z245.15.96 – Pipeline Steel Valves
For more information on our Ball, Gate, Globe, Check and Butterfly Valve product lines,
call us at (903) 912 7717 or email us at info@amsvalve.com.

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