HOLZ expansion joints provide the perfect solution for gas turbine

HOLZ expansion joints helped a gas-turbine manufacturer pass product tests.

No manufacturer in North America offers a better line and variety of expansion joint units than HOLZ Rubber Company does. Available in Canada through Northern Industrial Supply Company (NISCO), HOLZ expansion joints provide the ideal solutions for many manufacturing applications.

HOLZ is renowned not only for its expansion joint units, but also for its technical expertise and eagerness to assist clients with the best long-term solutions to their issues. From a children’s hospital in southern California to a coal plant in Wyoming, many organizations have benefited highly from the HOLZ team’s help over the past decade. One of the company’s many success stories involves a gas-turbine producer more than a year ago.

Fine tuning for turbine testing

This turbine manufacturer required a proper solution for the discharge of gas turbine engines’ bleed air to overboard ducting. Before gas turbines are available to customers on the market, the manufacturers have to test them to make sure that they meet strict standards for performance, emission, and structural design integrity. But these gas turbines would not pass these tests without strong expansion joint units.

To save the day, this turbine producer turned to the HOLZ team.

HOLZ’s staff examined the turbines and recommended the company’s own fully assembled expansion joint units for the testing of new gas turbines. With these new high-temperature expansion joints in place, the new gas turbines now passed all tests with flying colours for use in simple cycle, combined cycle, and cogeneration applications. As a result, the tested turbines now provided the highest power output of any aero derivative gas-turbine generator packages on the market.

Today, the turbine manufacturer continues to use HOLZ fully assembled, high-temperature expansion joints for testing, and its products are among the best out there.

About the companies

Based in Lodi, CA, HOLZ Rubber Company is a leader in rubber manufacturing, specializing in several types of expansion joints.

Northern Industrial Supply Company (NISCO) is a high-end supplier of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning products based in Pickering, Ont. Industries served include agriculture, the automotive sector, mining, power generation, and transportation.

For more information, contact NISCO.

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