Paladon Systems was established in 1981 as a Valve Automation Centre, supplying valve actuators and control systems and complete actuated valve packages to the Oil and Gas Industry. The Company was primarily focused on UK North Sea developments and quickly established itself because of its unique approach to the market with fresh ideas and innovative engineering. We partnered with Bettis at that time, and sold their actuators fitted with Paladon control systems.
By the late eighties the Company had grown significantly, and it became clear that to further improve customer service, we needed to be closer to their operational bases. As a result, Paladon Aberdeen was opened in 1991.
Occasionally there are valve automation applications that simply cannot be met using a manufacturer’s standard product, and in 1996 we produced our first actuator in response to one such case. Fourteen years later, we are proud to say that after just one overhaul, the actuator is still in service. Due to corporate changes with our principle in the USA, it was decided in 1999 that Paladon should exploit its very considerable knowledge of valve actuators to design its own range of quarter-turn and linear actuators. In 2001 Paladon Italia was formed, and has been manufacturing Paladon actuators ever since.
In 2001 the considerable task of undertaking a programme of vendor approval was started, and today we are approved by the majority of Oil and Gas producers and EPC contractors worldwide.
The Asia Pacific market has become very important in recent years, and in response Paladon has appointed numerous sales and service agents in that area; supported by a Paladon employee based in Malaysia.
Our latest expansion is a Joint Venture company (Paladon-SDT); with offices in Moscow and a manufacturing facility in Taganrog in Southern Russia.