In 1952, Mr. HILTON founded HILTON Valve with emphasis on fabricated Knife Gates. For the past 75 years, HILTON Knife Gate Valves have found a growing range of applications in a broad range of industries based on their ruggedness and economy. Today HILTON operations focused exclusively on the design and manufacture of fabricated valves including Large Diameter and Custom Knife Gate Valves and on other valve designs built to specific application requirements. With a reputation for design innovation and installed product performance, HILTON Valves provide reliable shutoff and control of high volume and critical flow in all industries including Water, Hydro, Energy, Process, Mining, Material Handling and Marine systems worldwide. Hilton is one of the seven DeZURIK brands including Red Valve, Tideflex®, RKL Controls, APCO, and Willamette.