SGL Acotec GmbH, a member of the SGL Carbon Group that specializes in industrial corrosion protection, has developed a GRP bonded tube system capable of handling highly corrosive media at temperatures of up to 200 degrees C.
Bill Geers and Wayne Grabowski from NIBCO presented John Wadlington of Chicago-based Columbia Pipe & Supply with the award for Top U.S. Distributor of NIBCO Actuation Products.
Puget Sound Pipe & Supply has been named by Bechtel National as supplier to the $5.6 billion Hanford Waste Treatment Plant being built near Richland, Wash.
It's not just ordinary carbon steel anymore for refineries and many other PVF users in process industries that generate hydrogen fluoride (HF), a poisonous gas that when dissolved in water produces hydrofluoric acid.