Curtiss-Wright facility featured on The History Channel

Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced August 10 that its Houston-based oil and gas business TapcoEnpro International (TEI) is featured in a documentary to be aired on The History Channel on Saturday, August 11, at 9 a.m. EDT. The segment is titled "Mega Movers Giant Oil Equipment." TEI is part of Curtiss-Wright's Flow Control segment.

The History Channel documentary follows the movement of a new FCCU from fabrication in Channelview, Texas, to a St. Paul, Minn., refinery. TEI fabricated the 475,000-pound reactor over the course of 12 months. The documentary records the movement of the FCCU from our fabrication facility in Channelview, through the Port of Houston Terminal where it is loaded on a deck barge and shipped to the St. Paul refinery. After 30 days on the water, the reactor is rolled off the barge and moved to the refinery where it is prepared for installation. The History Channel chronicles all the events necessary to move this large reactor vessel over 2,400 miles from Texas to Minnesota.

"We are very proud of the accomplishments of our TapcoEnpro facility," said Martin R. Benante, chairman and CEO of Curtiss-Wright. "The engineering expertise and dedication of all of its employees enabled this remarkable feat to occur. This ingenuity is representative of our legacy of innovation and engineering excellence."

Curtiss-Wright is a diversified company headquartered in Roseland, N.J. The company designs, manufactures and overhauls products for motion control and flow control applications, and provides a variety of metal treatment services. The firm employs approximately 7,200 people worldwide.

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corporation specializes in the design and manufacture of highly engineered valves, pumps, motors, generators, electronics and related products for the commercial nuclear power industry, oil and gas processing facilities, and a range of critical military programs. CWFC's innovative, high-performance products play an integral role in our nation's defense, and in the safe, efficient operation of power plants and other industrial sites worldwide. Based in Falls Church, Va., the company has 2,000 employees worldwide.