Fox Valve was founded in 1961 by Zola Fox, shown above with an early American rocket engine in 1950 in Caldwell, New Jersey. Fox Valve was founded to provide highly engineered, custom-designed and manufactured venturi flow controls for liquid rocket engines, spacecraft, research, and demanding industrial applications. Almost sixty years later, Fox Valve is still building highly engineered venturi products, such as the venturi flow control valves that regulated the flow of fuel and oxidizer to the three engines driving the 1/16th scale test version of the Space Shuttle shown below.
Fox Valve is now a leading global supplier of a broad range of venturi products for industry. We have created a standard line of venturi products for industrial users but the word ‘development’ is still part of our company name. We welcome applications that require critical engineering analysis, custom engineering, and in-house manufacturing. Our legacy as an aerospace company means we have the very highest standards for the equipment we build and ship. This is reflected in the brass liquid eductors we build for use in air conditioners, the skid-mounted steam ejector vacuum systems we build for refineries and food applications, the sanitary conveying systems we build for transporting milk powders, and all the other venturi products Fox supplies to dozens of industries including foundries, dairies, refineries, bakeries, plastic compounders, cement plants, mines, and NASA labs.
It is the integration of world-class engineering and manufacturing under one roof that distinguishes Fox Valve. It is for this reason that Fox has, for sixty years, been brought in to design, develop, engineer, and manufacture specialized venturi products to solve technically demanding applications. In the 1960’s, our venturis were used in new generations of rocket engines, ramjets, and communications satellites. In the 1970’s, Fox venturies were used in new generations of cruise missiles, re-usable spacecraft, and airborne lasers. In the 1980’s, Fox venturies were used in new generations of semiconductor manufacturing plants, superconductivity research, and high energy gas lasers. In the 1990’s, Fox venturies are currently being used in new generations of fuel cells, flue-gas emission controls, and the Space Station.
