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Benefits of a Specialty Turnkey Service Provider – #MetalMarketUpdate – May 2022.

Posted on May 17, 2022

Condenser Re-Tube – A Virginia utility came to Ward with a challenging project to refurbish two large heat exchangers during an outage. There were options for doing them in parallel…

Vessel Supports

Posted on May 12, 2022

Vessel support design is one of the most important aspects of a safe pressure vessel design, but it can be easily overlooked since the ASME code does not include methods…

Declining for the second consecutive month, April’s ISM Manufacturing Index (PMI) slid to a 55.4 mark from the 57.1 registered in March. Headwinds presented by persistent labor shortages, instability in energy…

Benefits of a Specialty Turnkey Service Provider – #MetalMarketUpdate – April 2022.

Posted on April 18, 2022

Oil Field Contact Tower Repair Ward was recently contracted to remove a 80,000 pound contactor column from its location out of state, transport it to our Charlotte, NC facility, cut…

Other ASME BPVC Code Sections

Posted on April 7, 2022

Most pressure vessels in the US are designed and fabricated in accordance with Section VIII, Division 1 of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC). But since the code…

#METALMARKETUPDATE – APRIL ’22

Posted on April 5, 2022

The March ISM Manufacturing Index (PMI) reading fell to 57.1 from February’s 58.6 mark. The slight decrease was largely attributed to supply chain constraints and higher price inputs. In something of a…