CANADIAN STEELMAKER GOES BIG WITH
WOODINGS GOGGLE VALVE
MARS, Pa. (October 22, 2008) – A major steel producer in Canada is thinking big. The steelmaker has just placed an order for the design and manufacture of a very large goggle valve from Woodings Industrial.
The valve, which measures up at 102" x 90", will be designed and built by Woodings and will feature hydraulic operation for the clamp/unclamp system and electro-mechanical operation for the goggle plate open/close system. Also, included with the valve is a built-in fabricated expansion joint.
Manufactured from stainless steel, the plate will feature rubber seats on both the open and closed rings. The swinging goggle plate is electro-mechanically operated with a Limitorque operator. The valve body seats have overlay protection. A small hydraulic unit is provided to unclamp the valve prior to swinging the goggle plate.
Woodings goggle valves are used as isolation valves for maintenance work or when production is at a stop and provides a positive shut-off of gas in blast furnace, basic oxygen, coke oven or other gas mains.
The new goggle valve is currently being engineered and will be delivered in the third quarter of 2009.
About Woodings Industrial Corp.
The only hot metal equipment supplier offering design, engineering,
manufacturing and service from one source, Woodings Industrial Corp. is the oldest continuous family-operated
business in North America’s steel industry. A worldwide leader in the manufacture of metals industry
equipment, Woodings uses the most current technologies to design, engineer and manufacture an extensive line
of traditional and not-so-traditional hot metal equipment, such as tap hole drills, clay guns, tuyere stocks,
blast furnace valves and engineering specialty products for continuous casters. Woodings is the exclusive supplier
of Grabe overlay components in North America and has plants at its headquarters in Mars and Harmony, Pa., along
with offices in Detroit and Gary, Ind.
For more information about Woodings Industrial Corporation, visit: http://www.woodings.com or call Al Colucci
at 724-625-3131.
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