Brian Carmona

I began working in the pressure gauge business in September of 1979 as a shipping and receiving clerk. I started working at a small wholesale distributor of Wika and VDO pressure gauges in Ohio by the name of the O.W. Heyman Company and Girard General Services.

In 1980 the O.W. Heyman Company starting producing their own brand of gauges under the name that we know today as Noshok, Inc. In 1981 I left Noshok and went to work for Ohio Pipe and Supply in Cleveland. They were distributing the H.O. Trerice Company pressure gauges and thermometers.

Girard General Services was taken over directly by VDO Instruments of Germany and I continued on working for them at night mounting diaphragm seals and calibrating pressure gauges. Later that year I was hired full time by VDO Instruments to become an outside salesman. After 2 years with them I moved onto work for one of VDO’s distributors Controlco, Inc. in Cleveland Ohio.

That was short lived as the H.O. Trerice Company came calling. I started with them in June of 1984 in the Cleveland office as a Sales Engineer. In 1986 I was promoted to the Boston office as the Branch Manager. I continued to work for H.O. Trerice until the summer of 1994.
At that time I left the gauge business and went into the valve automation side of the business and started working for Process Valve Automation of Providence Rhode Island. In April of 1997 Process Valve Automation closed their doors and for the first time in my life I found myself without a job. After reviewing many job offers and the several different directions that I could go, I decided to strike out on my own and start a business.

In April of 1997 I started my business under the name of Controls, Valves and Instruments or as I was calling it CV Instruments. In October of 1997 I purchased Colonial Instruments Company of Bridgeport, CT a spinoff company of the Ashcroft distributor at the time Seeley & Jones, Inc. I immediately relocated the company to Nashua, NH and as I like to say, the three of us, Me, Myself, and I were “All In” on this business venture.