In March 2002 Stainless Valve Co. received the Editor’s Choice Award from the Process Engineering Magazine. The award for was for Big Screen, an automatic screen changer,
which is used to screen out solids from fluids or gases and change the screen without interrupting the operation. This the idea for this product was presented by Alexander Thibodeau from Mead. SVC developed the Big Screen in cooperation with Alex, and Steve Hogg.