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Rubber lined piping has been used by our AQCS customers in Flue Gas Desulfurization and Wet Lime Scrubbing systems. But there are many other applications where rubber lining can provide a very cost effective solution where either corrosion or erosion is an issue.

The very first major construction project that required hard hats was the construction of the Hoover Dam in 1931. In 1933, Chief Engineer Joseph Strauss mandated head protection for his project, the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, fearing that falling hot rivets would injure workers below.

In these arc welding processes, an arc of electricity is produced and reaches thousands of degrees, melting the metals and causing the metals to become one single piece of metal.

As we noted in our last newsletter, the origins of “pipe” can be traced back to the Egyptians and their use of copper. 4,000 years later, at the height of the Roman Empire.

Just as shop fabrication of piping spools benefits [...]

Over the past twenty years, DIXIE MECHANICAL INC. has supplied piping spools to contractors throughout the U.S. for both industrial and commercial applications.

The Latin word for lead is “Plumbum” and thus anyone who became an expert working with lead was referred to as a “Plumbarius”.

Since 2002, DIXIE MECHANICAL INC. has supplied carbon, stainless, chrome moly and nickel alloy pipe fabrication to industrial projects throughout the U.S., while providing mechanical