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Piping Technology & Products, Inc., designed and
manufactured 150 special embed plate pieces for 4 gold mines
in Cajamarca, a province of northwestern Peru.
At an altitude of 4,700 m, this complex
of four gold mines and processing facility is Latin America’s
largest gold producer. The gold district is a 10 by 4-km zone
of altered rocks with a belt of Tertiary volcanic that extends
through Peru.
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| Figure 1:
Cajamarca, a province of NW Peru, is home to Latin America's largest gold producer. |
Figure 2:
PT&P custom designed drawings for the embed
plates. |
This project involved the production of
one hundred fifty, 93" x 27" x 1" embed plates
which required the use of 80,000 pounds of steel and anchors.
The custom designed, carbon steel, embed plates are to provide
stability for the feed openings of four mineshaft reclaim
tunnels and are scheduled to be put to use immediately.
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| Figure 3: Specially designed embed plates manufactured by PT&P waiting to be shipped to Peru. |
Figure 4: Flat embed plates for Grizzly feeder opening. |
The initial birth of this project began
at the end of December 2000 and production was expected to
last through the beginning of March 2001, but PT&P
advanced its completion date to February 2001. In addition,
PT&P also performed bend test on each plate to ensure
product quality. The test requires bending the studs 5 degrees
to determine whether the weld is in accordance to B31.3.
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| Figure 5: Embed Plates, designed & manufactured by PT&P, awaiting for quality control bend test. |
About Piping Technology & Products,
Inc
Piping Technology & Products, Inc.
manufactures standard and custom designed embed plates to
fit individual needs. The embed plates, made of carbon steel,
can be black, galvanized or painted.
Piping Technology & Products, Inc.
and its wholly owned subsidiaries, U.S. Bellows, Inc. and
Sweco Fab, Inc., are recognized leaders in manufacturing pipe
hangers/pipe supports (variables, constants, cryogenic
supports, cold shoes, hot shoes, mechanical/hydraulic snubbers,
slide bearing plates), expansion joints/compensators
(metallic, fabric, rubber, slip-type) and ASME Code
Fabrication. PT&P has engineering drawing production,
stress analysis and full in-house finite element analysis that
are used to prove designs. The company also administers tests
that allow its customers to attain the most precise and
reliable data available to them. Using this to their
advantage, customers will be able to compare data about
recently ordered products, to their individual standards of
dependability and durability.
For more information about Piping
Technology & Products, Inc. and its manufactured products,
please refer to http://www.pipingtech.com/.
Here you can find press releases about PT&P’s recent
projects and company updates, free software downloads and
product photographs. Join PT&P’s Discussion Forum, find
out about the history of the company, take an online tour of
the 22-acre property and read about all the products and
services PT&P has to offer through itself and its wholly
owned subsidiaries U.S. Bellows, Inc. and Sweco Fab, Inc.
Please contact public relations at info@pipingtech.com
for further information about this project.
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