Woodings Delivers Service and Speed to Help Customer Get Back On-Line
04/17/2013 - Woodings recently helped a Michigan steelmaker with emergency repair work to recondition 8 valves and get the equipment back on line in less than 10 days.
When a major steelmaker in Michigan called on Woodings for emergency repair work, the goal was simple: make the necessary repairs and get the customer back to normal productivity. What wasn’t so simple was the timeline. While most reconditioning work takes weeks or sometimes months, Woodings understood that the steel producer had to get back online immediately.
In less than ten days, Woodings was able to recondition 8 valves and get the equipment back in place.
Specifically, the Woodings team
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Engineered and fabricated new actuator superstructures for two turbo blower gate valves
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Modified an existing snort valve with a new Beck actuator
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Refurbished a cold blast fill valve with new 6” valve
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Reconditioned two chimney valves, one mixer valve and one cold blast valve
Pictured below: Turbo blower gate valve
“While the repairs themselves were fairly standard for us, our ability to get our customer back to productivity in a matter of days is indicative of the way we do business,” stated Woodings president, Rob Woodings.
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, blast furnace top hydraulic charging units, tuyere stocks, blast furnace valves, hydraulic distributors and 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, Mich. and Gary, Ind.
