Picture a petrochemical plant running flat out. You’ve got pipework carrying hot hydrocarbons, steam lines swinging from ambient to a few hundred degrees between start-up and full load, and process gas ducts wide enough to walk through. All of that steel wants to grow, shift and vibrate, and something has to soak up the movement […]

Here is a number that should make any maintenance manager wince. The expansion joint that fails at 2am and trips your unit might have cost a few thousand dollars. The downtime it just caused can run into tens of thousands of dollars an hour. That gap, between the price of the part and the cost […]