Copeland is not related to FloAuto, Flowtec (Shanghai) Flow & Control Valves Co., Ltd, Copeland (Shanghai) or copelandvalves.com.

An advertisement for Copeland (Shanghai) Valves was published by a Shanghai company, Floauto (Shanghai) Control Valve.

From http://whois.domaintools.com/copelandvalves.com the following was found:

 Registrant:
         FLOAUTO(SHANGHAI)CONTROL VALVE CO.,LTD.  +86.2133756788 +86.2133756766
         FLOAUTO(SHANGHAI)CONTROL VALVE CO.,LTD.
         shanghai
         shanghai,shanghai,CN 20000

Domain Name:copelandvalves.com 
Record last updated at 2011-05-04 01:19:01
Record created on 2011/5/4
Record expired on 05/04/2016

Domain servers in listed order:
         ns3.dns-diy.com          ns4.dns-diy.com 

Administrator:
         FLOAUTO(SHANGHAI)CONTROL VALVE CO.,LTD.  +86.2133756788 +86.2133756766
         FLOAUTO(SHANGHAI)CONTROL VALVE CO.,LTD.
         shanghai
         shanghai,shanghai,CN 20000

Technical Contactor:
         FLOAUTO(SHANGHAI)CONTROL VALVE CO.,LTD.  +86.2133756788 +86.2133756766
         FLOAUTO(SHANGHAI)CONTROL VALVE CO.,LTD.
         shanghai
         shanghai,shanghai,CN 20000

Billing Contactor:
         FLOAUTO(SHANGHAI)CONTROL VALVE CO.,LTD.  +86.2133756788 +86.2133756766
         FLOAUTO(SHANGHAI)CONTROL VALVE CO.,LTD.
         shanghai
         shanghai,shanghai,CN 20000

 November 22, 2011

Floauto was still posting the following  advertising on a Chinese website and appears to be looking for staff to build up their new product line. In the following ad they claim to have been established in 1947 by Lee Copeland and also to be the same company as ours in the U.S.

Status, November 15, 2011

www.copelandvalves.com was taken down.

www.flowauto.com was still active although the secretary said that the facilities advertised did not exist.

Flowtec (shanghai) Flow & Control Valves Co., Ltd.  was still advertised and had the same address as Flowauto in Shanghai.

December 02, 2011

Copeland is an independent company based in Houston, Texas. No references to any company or organization mentioned in this website or literature published by Copeland or statements made by employees at Copeland is meant to present any confusion of this fact. No mention of another company is meant to be construed as an endorsement by or for that company or individual.

To be clear, Copeland does not own, endorse, claim endorsement by or is a part of any other valve company in the Houston area or China or any other organization that may be mentioned in this or any other published literature. Furthermore, Copeland does not intentionally use or disseminate promotional materials that uses false or misleading statements and actively seeks to correct any misconceptions there may be about our company, products or business interests.

Should there be any confusion with regard to any statements  made here, in our literature or by any company that may be affiliated with Copeland then, please, contact us at admin.copelandballvalves.com.

We will do what we can to quickly remediate any confustion.