WOODINGS BUSTS HUMP TO MEET DELIVERY DATE

(February 10, 2006)—In the industrial marketplace price may rule the day, but that doesn’t mean that bend-over-backwards service is a thing of the past. In fact, in the case of Woodings Industrial, fast service is standard operating procedure.

Woodings’ ability to get things done was recently manifest in the manufacture and delivery of nine combustion valves for the U.S. Steel-Gary Works #14 furnace project.

U.S. Steel ordered nine lever-type valves as replacements. Woodings designed, engineered, built and delivered the first three valves in six short weeks. The remaining valves shipped four weeks later. The new valves have air cylinder operators and incorporate an improved internal linkage design that is stronger and provides longer operating life.

“Our ability to go from scratch to design, engineering and build in a matter of weeks speaks volumes about our approach to meeting our customers’ requirements. If there is a way to get it done, we’ll do it,” said Rob Woodings, president of Wooding Industrial Corporation.

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.