Global Tank Storage Award Winner 2024: Environmental Performance

Assentech Sales’ founder Ewart Cox reflects on the company’s gold win at the Global Tank Storage Awards for reducing emissions across facilities Operating out of Cornwall, UK, Assentech Sales specialises in valve equipment to reduce emissions on tank terminals. But it was the company’s patented Vent-Less breather valve test bench that took home the gold award for environmental performance at the 2024 Global Tank Storage Awards. ‘Breather valves are a critical safety device,’ says founder Ewart Cox. ‘I realised that customers can sometimes unknowingly be purchasing untested valves, due to time pressures from manufacturers. That’s what drove me to develop the test bench.’ [caption id="attachment_41815" align="alignleft" width="670"] Ewart Cox, founder at Assentech Sales (middle) accepts his Tank Storage Award from Ammonia Energy Association’s Hans Vrijenhof and Tank Storage Magazine’s editor Anamika Talwaria[/caption] What Is The Vent-Less Breather Valve Test Bench? About the size of a washing machine, the test bench is a way for terminal operators to quickly and accurately establish whether the valves in use on their assets are fit for purpose. The bench...