About us

At Brazos Control Valves we believe that Sustainability can be achieved through Operational Excellence. We also believe that the road to excellence is paved through the open sourcing of knowledge. Brazos Control Valves is not a manufacturer representative – we believe that the product that delivers the best overall value is the product that should be used for that control loop. Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge and resources to make those decisions.

Our Mission

To improve the efficiency, safety, reliability, and ecology of process plants, by training others to become experts in final control elements.

By teaching others, we not only reinforce our knowledge base, but we advance the skillset overall. By advancing the overall skillset, we allow our customers to focus their energy on identifying new challenges. And if these challenges involve control systems, we trust that our customers, will once again, allow us to provide expertise and guidance, to efficiently tackle the new challenge, so that we, as a community, can continue to improve.

Our Vision

The path to ecological improvement is paved with the knowledge and skills, which allow each person to pursue their passions efficiently.

By providing the training and tools to the people in our community who are expressing their passions of repair, production, organization, etc., we believe the members of our community will be able to execute their missions, with less waste. Through increased efficiency and waste mitigation, we will provide for a greener tomorrow.

Guiding Principles

Knowledge

Creating knowledge and skills through teaching and learning is the core of what we do. We recognize that learning continues throughout our lives and see learning as essential to competent citizenship in a democracy. We know that learning changes minds and lives. We change the world for the better by embracing and encouraging learning in our community, our colleagues, and ourselves.

Community

Changing the world by building relationships. We build relationships as we live our mission. We are in, of, and part of our community, state, and world. We are good stewards of the resources we have been given. We recognize and appreciate that diverse people, ideas, thinking, and beliefs expand our perspectives and provide new insights for each of us. We work together as a team for a common purpose and share a mission and vision. Through these efforts, we serve our neighbors, stakeholders, community, and world. We change the world for the better by building and supporting a sense of community.

Sustainability

We are committed to providing solutions, advising on strategies, and coaching on techniques with the goal of reducing rework (the word for reducing process recycle / rework) and maximizing efficiency, to help create economically advantaged, yet environmentally sustainable results. Our expertise in the final control elements market, along with knowledge of emerging technologies, paired with the on-the-ground understanding of process operations, have helped us to find economical solutions that drive out inefficiencies, resulting in less waste produced, and increased profitability.

Mark Ivers is a veteran of the United States Navy, Submarine Service. While aboard the USS Buffalo (SSN 715), he led the reactor controls division, where he embraced the values of reliability and stable system controls. After leaving the Navy, Mark pursued his MBA, with an emphasis in Finance, from Washington State University’s Carson School of Business.

Merging his knowledge of safe, reliable, and stable plant operations with financial metrics and business optimization, he now works in the petrochemical industry, teaching and mentoring others on the values of a stable, reliable, and economical control system.

Legal Structure

Brazos Control Valves is a SCD Veteran owned company and is registered with the Texas Secretary of State as a dBa of the Limited Liability Corporation, Coordinated Commissioning. Brazos Control Valves intends to restructure as a C-Corporation in the State of Texas during the first half of 2022.

NAICS: 424830, 811219

About Us