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Faro Blanco Yacht Club & Resort receives ValvTect Marina of the Year Award

Faro Blanco Yacht Club & Resort received the ValvTect Petroleum’s 2016 Marina of the Year Award, presented at the International Marina & Boatyard Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The ValvTect Marina of the Year Award is presented annually by ValvTect Petroleum to a ValvTect Certified Marina for outstanding operation, total commitment to customer service and environmental stewardship. The Florida Keys ...

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ValvTect founder Jerry Nessenson announces retirement

Gerald (Jerry) Nessenson, founder and  longtime president of ValvTect Petroleum Products, has announced his retirement from ValvTect this week. After attending DePauw University on a football scholarship and serving in the Marines, Nessenson began his 50 year career in the petroleum industry with Texaco in 1966. In 1969 he joined Bell Fuels (Bell), then a small Chicago heating oil distributor, ...

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Marina Palms Yacht Club opens in North Miami Beach

Marina Palms Yacht Club recently opened at 172nd Street and Biscayne Boulevard in North Miami Beach, featuring 112 wet slips for boats between 40 and 100 feet (LOA) and drafts of 10 feet.  Located in Maule Lake, just off the Intracoastal Waterway, it is 15 minutes from the ocean. The marina is serviced by a bilingual staff including a dock master, dock ...

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Harbour Town Yacht Basin is presented the 2015 ValvTect Marina of the Year award

NORTHBROOK, Ill. – Each year ValvTect Petroleum presents its ValvTect Marina of the Year award at the International Marina and Boatyard Conference (IMBC). It is presented to the Certified ValvTect Marina that exhibits outstanding customer service, community involvement, environmental stewardship and excellent marketing of ValvTect Marine Fuels. This year the 2015 ValvTect Marina of the Year was awarded to Harbour Town ...

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ValvTect Petroleum acquires Energy Additives

NORTHBROOK, Ill. – ValvTect Petroleum Products of Northbrook, Illinois today announced it has acquired Energy Additives, Inc. of Battle Creek, Michigan, a supplier of LPG/propane fuel additives and exclusive distributor of Blue Moon propane filtration systems. “Energy Additives patented LPG/propane additives and Blue Moon filtration systems are natural extensions to ValvTect’s line of diesel, gasoline and biocide fuel additives. As ...

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Gevo, ValvTect to bring isobutanol fuel blends to marinas

Gevo, Inc., and ValvTect will collaborate on bringing renewable isobutanol fuel blends to ValvTect branded marinas, the companies announced Wednesday. With a distribution network of over 700 marinas, believed to represent more than half of the marinas in the U.S., this collaboration provides Gevo with access to marinas that currently utilize ValvTect additives. In addition, this partnership is expected to ...

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Choosing the right winterizing additive

With ethanol-blends and other biofuels becoming more prevalent in the market, its more important than ever that dealers, marinas, boatyards and boaters pay more attention to what’s going in the tank, whether it’s the fuel they use or the additives they choose. With no specifications for fuel additives, and increased demand for ethanol treatments, the situation has been ripe for ...

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Southport Marina is the 2014 ValvTect Marina of the Year

NORTHBROOK, Ill. — In 2006, Preston Development Company of Cary, North Carolina purchased an aging marina in Southport, North Carolina, on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). What started as a simple remodeling project grew into a multi-million dollar, multi-year rebuild of the entire location. The result is one of the finest full-service marinas along the ICW. With 225 wet slips and ...

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