Piping Technology and Products is a privately owned pipe support manufacturing and engineering company headquartered in Houston, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, United States

United States

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. Its wholly owned subsidiaries are US Bellows

US Bellows

US Bellows is a manufacturer of metal bellows, fabric expansion joints, and metallic expansion joints including refractory lined, hinged, gimbal, slip-type, in-line pressure balanced, and elbow pressure balanced expansion joints. It was acquired by Piping Technology and Products in 1997 from...

, Sweco Fab, Fronek Anchor/Darling, Enterprise, and Pipe Shields. These companies provide pipe support

Pipe support

A pipe support is a device designed to carry the weight of the pipe, any in-line equipment and the material in the pipe over a defined span. The four main functions of a pipe support are to guide, anchor, absorb shock and support a specified load. Pipe supports used in high or low temperature...

s, expansion joints, shock and vibration controls, and pre-insulated supports to a variety of industries including LNG, chemical, petrochemical, pulp & paper, and aerospace.

History

• 1975: Durga D. Agrawal and Alan Muller entered into a partnership and established an engineering and consulting company called Stress Technology & Products. 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
  South Carolina
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  . Began manufacturing metallic expansion joints.
• 1997: Acquired US Bellows
  US Bellows
  US Bellows is a manufacturer of metal bellows, fabric expansion joints, and metallic expansion joints including refractory lined, hinged, gimbal, slip-type, in-line pressure balanced, and elbow pressure balanced expansion joints. It was acquired by Piping Technology and Products in 1997 from...
  
   from Ketema LP of San Diego, California
  San Diego, California
  San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
  
  
• 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