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News Release from: WahlcoMetroflex | Subject: Flex-Seat guillotine damper
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 18 November 2005
Damper handles extreme operating
conditions
The Flex-Seat guillotine damper is designed for the isolation of gas flows in the most extreme operating conditions.
New from WahlcoMetroflex is the Flex-Seat guillotine damper for the isolation of gas flows in the most extreme operating conditions This fully bonneted guillotine damper provides high performance and simplified maintenance to meet the needs of combustion and hot gas systems of all kinds, including power plants, refineries, chemical plants, pulp and paper mills, metallurgical smelters, steel mills and incinerators
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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