For over fifty years, customers like GE Energy, Solar Gas Turbines and Pratt & Whitney have trusted Y&F products on more than 10,000 land-based gas turbines worldwide, including fourteen IGCC projects. During the last decade we have applied our technical expertise to precision controls for steam turbines. These products are designed and manufactured with the same integrity found in our products for the gas turbine market.

Our continuous investment in R&D has yielded new actuation products using the latest in electromechanical (EMA), electrohydrostatic (EHA) and voice coil technologies. Combined with our extensive hydraulic experience, these advanced offerings guarantee the right solution for your turbine fuel control.

Young & Franklin supports its product worldwide from our Liverpool, New York facility in the United States.
ABOUT Y&F

Young & Franklin Inc. and its subsidiary, Tactair Fluid Controls Inc., are manufacturers of controls used by the land-based turbine, aircraft, defense and oil industries. The company, founded in 1918, is privately owned and is located in Liverpool, a suburb of Syracuse, New York.

Since the 1950's, Y&F has been the original source of robust precision hydraulic controls to the land-based gas turbine industry. We continue to manufacture a broad range of products for GE Energy (including Nuovo Pignone and Energy Products Europe), Solar Turbines, Pratt & Whitney and others around the world.

Building on our knowledge and experience in the turbine control, we have developed a line of electromechanical, electrohydrostatic and voice coil products to complement our hydraulic offerings. The company offers a complete product line to support:

    Actuation for hydraulic or electric control on OEM turbines
    Field upgrades to fully electronic turbine control
    Maintenance and overhaul of existing units

Y&F Perspective

Global Support Cements Relationships
Young & Franklin supports our products worldwide from our facility in Liverpool, New York. Demanding customers like GE Energy and Solar Turbines have come to rely on us for our fuel system knowledge as well as product-related service. We routinely set up programs with OEMs to remanufacture parts in support of their aftermarket. Our significant experience enables us to provide rapid turnaround delivery of a certified product. This total support of our marketplace explains why Y&F has been the premier turbine fluid control component supplier for over five decades.

Dedication to Excellence in Engineering
Young & Franklin has built a cohesive first-rate staff of design, manufacturing and sustaining engineers. These groups work hand in hand to provide the right solution to meet customer requirements. Building on our solid foundation in the industry, we carefully evaluate each customer’s needs and specifications to determine whether to offer something from our standard product line or to deliver a custom solution.

In addition, we initiate Independent Research and Development (IRAD) projects to ensure that we deliver advanced technology to the market ahead of our competition. System modeling enables our engineers to simulate the performance of a new design before prototypes are built. Y&F's technology systems support our engineers with the following:

    3-D parametric modeling
    dynamic and static systems modeling
    finite element analysis

These designs are then efficiently transferred to manufacturing by way of our integrated CAE/CAD/CAM systems. Young & Franklin is ISO 9001 certified and actively certifies our products to meet stringent hazardous location, explosion proof, UL/FM, CSA, ATEX, and CENELEC standards required for shipment and installation worldwide.

Manufacturing that Delivers Quality
Young & Franklin's systematic approach to manufacturing assures quality. The tight integration of engineering systems into manufacturing incorporates quality into the process. Our operations staff employs Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Six Sigma systems on the manufacturing floor as integral process control tools. Data are monitored using automated inspection and gauging equipment. Together these efforts promote efficiency and provide customers with consistently superior products.

Testing Assures Dependability
Young & Franklin tests every product prior to shipment. Our extensive in-house facilities enable us to test products using a variety of fluids, pressures and flows to verify critical performance characteristics such as bandwidth, hysteresis, efficiency and environmental compatibility. Data are recorded and archived to support our design, quality assurance and customer support requirements. Our robust designs, efficient manufacturing and extensive testing have consistently yielded products that operate flawlessly in the field.