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Piping Technology & Products, Inc.
Piping Technology & Products, Inc. (PT&P) is a privately owned pipe support manufacturing and engineering company headquartered in Houston, Texas, USA.

History

 * 1975: Durga D. Agrawal and Alan Muller entered into a partnership and established an engineering and consulting company called Stress Technology & Products (ST&P). The company specialized in design engineering and computerized stress analysis, but evolved into a manufacturing and fabrication business over the next three years.
 * 1978: The company was reorganized as Piping Technology & Products, Inc. and developed the constant load spring hanger design.
 * 1986: Acquired Sweco, Fab. Inc., an ASME U-Stamp Shop that designs and fabricates pressure vessels, pig launchers and receivers, instrument supports, conical strainers, spectacle and line blinds, orifice plates and flanges, duct and transition pieces, bellmouth reducers and dampers / louvers.
 * 1995: Acquired RM Manufacturing from RM Engineered Products of Ladson, South Carolina. Began manufacturing metallic expansion joints.
 * 1997: Acquired U.S. Bellows, Inc. from Ketema LP of Sand Diego, California
 * 2003: Launched field services division and began services calls, installations and maintenance
 * 2004: Acquired Fronek Group
 * 2007: Received ISO 9001:2000 certification
 * 2009: Received ISO 9001:2008 certification

Major Projects

 * 1976: Supplied spring supports and expansion joints to Dow Chemical Company for the Naphtha Cracking Unit in Plaquemine, Louisiana
 * 1977: Supplied pipe supports for the General Motors (GM) assembly plant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
 * 1977: Supplied spring hangers and pipe supports to GKN Birwelco for the Exxon Baytown Olefin Plant