by bitboyz | Dec 11, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
An athlete who throws more touchdowns or makes more tackles is worth more, right? What we see is the performance on the field and the contract that rewards it. What we don’t see is all the hours of effort that athlete puts in behind the scenes to make that...
by bitboyz | Nov 30, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
The call came to EGC on Thursday, November 29 from Universal Plant Services (UPS), a project management, maintenance and repair service for the energy industry. They were doing maintenance at an oil refinery and couldn’t get a pressure seal for a Flowserve Edwards...
by bitboyz | Nov 27, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
A valve was over-pressurized in a west coast nuclear power plant. It led to an extreme condition called out-of-round in the pressure seal cavity. They called the manufacturer but there was no way to machine the cavity back to accepting a metal seal. And, it would...
by bitboyz | Nov 21, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
Industrial Valve Sales and Service of Mobile, Alabama does valve repairs for a host of power generation, refining, and pulp and paper plant facilities. During the week of Thanksgiving, they were doing routine maintenance during a plant outage at South Mississippi...
by bitboyz | Nov 9, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
Engineering makes EGC the premier manufacturer of Thermafoil® flexible graphite pressure seals. Our VSG seals are designed for your specific application, superior to conventional metal seals and can ship in 48 hours or less. Just provide the dimensional data from your...
by bitboyz | Nov 6, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Article
How do you know the VSG high-density graphite pressure seal will never leak, save tons of man-hours and can be delivered in 48 hours or less? You have to go back to the early 1990’s with a nuclear public electric power utility called Arizona Public Service (APS). One...
