Woodings Industrial Answers Steel Producer's Urgent Need for Innovative Burden Probes

(July 23, 2004) In this day and age, customers expect suppliers to provide snappy turnaround on production. But getting a state-of-the-art above burden probe designed, manufactured and delivered in less then two weeks is considered lightning quick by any standard.

Woodings Industrial Corporation recently accomplished this feat in answer to a request by a major Indiana steelmaking facility for two above burden probes for the steel producer's blast furnace. One of those probes needed to be delivered in 4 weeks, the other in just two short weeks. The Woodings design team went to work and both probes were delivered as promised.

In addition to fast turnaround, Woodings also answered the need for valve performance. Both Woodings probes feature a water-cooled design that offers significant performance improvement over nitrogen-cooled and steam-cooled probes.

Woodings produced the above burden probes as the exclusive North American licensee for VAI-Davy, the world leader in metals technology.

“This project was an excellent example of our people's total focus and get-it-done approach to customer service”, said President Robert T. Woodings. “To produce and deliver a component in a two-week time frame speaks volumes about this group's determination to do whatever is necessary to answer customer needs.”

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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