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Meeting the Challenge

Since its first successful application in 1930, clad plate has found its way into a wide range of applications across a number of industries.

Process Vessels

Used extensively in the construction of vessels for processing petroleum, chemicals, paper, food and other products, clad plate has proven its ability to withstand elevated temperatures and thermal and pressure cycling.

BLP roll-bonded clad can be found in catalytic cracking units, hydrocrackers, reactors, coke drums and other equipment used in petroleum refining and natural gas processing.
The chemical industry uses roll-bonded clad for a number of applications, such as reactor vessels, rotating disk columns and vapor bodies.
In the pulp and paper industry, roll-bonded clad has been used in both batch and continuous pulp digesters, evaporators and other equipment exposed to corrosive environments.

Pollution Control

BLP clad is helping many electrical utilities solve material performance problems in flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems. Clad offers an economical, effective solution in the highly-corrosive environments found in areas of wet limestone scrubbing systems such as absorber towers, outlet and breeching ducts and in chimney liners.

Other

Used in hoppers, chutes, bins, and other material handling applications, clad helps assure long, virtually maintenance-free service life.

Clad has been used in the holds of ships carrying corrosive cargo, in bearing plates for bridges, in pipes for transporting materials as diverse as sour gas and water and in poles for electrical power transmission.

Pressure vessels used in the hydrocarbon processing industry represent the single largest application of roll- bonded clad plate.

Inspecting the interior of a formed clad column. Photo courtesy of Nooter Corporation, St. Louis, MO, USA.

The holds of ships carrying corrosive bulk cargo benefit from roll-bonded clad plate.

The new 1000-foot concrete chimney (left, foreground) at Allegheny Power System's Harrison Station in West Virginia, contains three roll-bonded clad flues fabricated and erected by Graver Tank & Manufacturing of Houston, TX. This tower represents the largest application for roll-bonded clad in the power generation market.