Xomox knows valves backwards and forwards. The Crane subsidiary's products include sleeved plug valves, ball valves, butterfly valves, and lined valves. The company's products are used in the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, nuclear power, and hydrocarbon processing industries. Xomox also offers a full line of vane and rack and pinion pneumatic actuators. The company has manufacturing operations in Canada, France, Germany, India, Mexico, the UK, and the US. Xomox was founded as Continental Manufacturing Company in 1956 and was acquired by Crane Co. in 2001.