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FIN-FANNER HUDSON PRODUCTS CORPORATION

Summer/Fall 2002 Quality, Performance, Efficiency, HUDSON


Vol. 13 No. 2

HUDSON
Products Corporation
Leading Edge Technologies

H udson Products Corporation,


a leader in the design, manufacturer,
and service of heat transfer equip-
ment and axial flow fans for the
petroleum, chemical, gas processing,
and electric utility industries has
relocated its business offices to Fort
Bend County in Sugar Land, Texas.
The new office location is now closer
HIGHLIGHTS to the manufacturing facilities in
l Changes at HUDSON Beasley, Texas.
l ChevronTexaco
Sanha Condensate Project
l W. E. Smith Hudson Pty. Ltd. HUDSON is now located at:
Goro Nickel & Woodside Projects
1307 Soldiers Field Drive
l Upgrades in the Fan Shop
Sugar Land, TX 77479
l Who’s Who in FANS
l Marketing Team Phone: 281-275-8100
Lunch & Learn Seminars Fax: 281-275-8211
l Hudson Parts
at Clearance Prices www.hudsonproducts.com
l Service Awards
l Environmental Edge
l President’s Comments continued.....
Profile

H U D
H udson Products Corporation
was sold to a group of investors led
and measurement style to our
business planning.
by Madison Capital Partners of
Chicago in July of 2002. The Their focus on our business as
current HUDSON management has a core holding will enhance
remained unchanged and the sale HUDSON’s position in the heat
by McDermott International Inc. was transfer industry with a number
in line with their plans to focus on of exciting growth prospects
their core business in the power, already discussed.
government, and offshore marine
construction industries. The sale included HUDSON’s
global offices, and our joint venture
We are excited with Madison’s operations in Australia, Indonesia,
plan to grow the business internally and Mexico. Our licensee and
in addition to possible acquisitions sales representatives network
in related industries. Madison remains unchanged.
was attracted to HUDSON’s solid
financial track record and quickly
introduced a dynamic management

1307 Soldiers Field Drive, Sugar Land, Texas 77479 - Ph. 281.275.8100 F
Profile

S O N
M adison Capital Partners
acquires and operates processors
and industrial equipment manufac-
M cDermott International Inc.
is a leading worldwide energy
services company. The company’s
turers for the plastics, rubber and subsidiaries manufacture steam-
metals industries. Madison provides generating equipment, environ-
capital and strategic resources and mental equipment, and products for
aligns goals through offering man- the U.S. government. They also
agement direct equity investment provide design, engineering,
opportunities. The Principals fabrication and installation services
and Advisory board members of to the oil and natural gas industries
Madison have managed multiple for offshore production facilities
manufacturing operations and have and pipelines.
been very effective in assisting man-
agement teams in the development On April 17, 1969, McDermott
of strategic growth plans. acquired HUDSON to provide their
clients with stronger engineering
and manufacturing services.

Fax: 281.275.8211 www.hudsonproducts.com


Profile
ChevronTexaco
Sanha Condensate Project
ChevronTexaco’s Sanha Condensate Project
team visits HUDSON’s manufacturing facility. f ollowing the facility tour, ChevronTexaco project team
members met with Kenny Won and Alberto Sayago of
HUDSON to review the Sanha Condensate Project con-
sisting of five offshore platforms with two linking bridges
and HUDSON’s Fin-Fan® air-cooled heat exchangers.

HUDSON was awarded two contracts to manufac-


ture and design Fin-Fan® air-cooled heat exchangers from
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Stoldt
Offshore consortium. A total of 50 units with 63 bundles
for 24 different service items are scheduled for construc-
tion and testing at HUDSON’s manufacturing facility
located in Beasley, Texas. Both induced and forced draft
designs are utilized with plug and cover plate header
designs featuring up to 7,200 psi design pressure.
Material requirements are carbon steel, 2205 Duplex, and
316 stainless steel.
pictured left: Kenny Won, Wade Privratsky, Robert Neill, John
Ward, Neil Cruickshank, Billy Johnston, Helge Edvardsen, and The Sanha Condensate Project will be deployed in
Alberto Sayago. Sanha and Bomboco field in the Cabinda area in offshore
Angola, in West Africa. The operator of this field is
CABGOC, on behalf of an oil company group of Sonagol,
ChevronTexco, Agip and TotalFinalElf.

W. E. Smith Hudson Pty. Ltd.

t
Goro Nickel and Woodside Projects
he Goro Nickel project is a Nickel Refining Project undertaken within the company’s fabrication facility located in
located in the French Territory of New Caledonia, Australia. Coffs Harbour on the mid North Coast of NSW, Australia.
The scope of W. E. Smith Hudson Pty. Ltd. is to supply 16 W. E. Smith Hudson Pty. Ltd. will be delivering the four
Titanium Grade 28 shell and tube heat exchangers at a value 200 tonne shell and
of approximately US $16,500,000. This project is the larg- tube vessels for the
est ever attained by the company in its 80 year history and Woodside LNG train
would be one of the largest single projects placed for heat 4 project at the end
exchangers on any Australian manufacturer to this date. of Nov. 2002. In ad-
W. E. Smith Hudson Pty. Ltd. was the only Australian dition, W. E. Smith
company technically approved to design and fabricate the Hudson Pty. Ltd. will
titanium and superduplex shell and tube heat exchangers. commence manu-
The equipment is fabricated from Titanium Grade 28 facture of 250 tonne
(tubes, tubesheets and floating head), Titanium Grade 17 x 70m x 4.5m con-
clad (shell and shell cover) and superduplex (channel cone). densate splitter col-
These materials were selected after extensive corrosion test- umn in Dec. 2002.
ing and have rarely been used in the manufacture of shell Both of the above major equipment items will be shipped by
and tube heat exchangers. This project represents approxi- barge directly from Coffs Harbour.
mately 60,000 man-hours and shall be completely
Research and Development

Upgrades in the Fan Shop


H UDSON recently completed a new facility for cutting and storing fiberglass material for the Tuf-Lite fans
blade series in the Fan Blade Shop at the Beasley manufacturing plant. This facility consists of a 4400 sq. foot
building, a Lectra CNC cutting machine and CNC spreading machine with table.

In 1991 HUDSON contracted the cutting of the fiberglass holder


kits to an outside company, producing the kits on automated cutting
equipment. This decision was made due to the quality problems
associated with existing holder kits. Hand cutting the fiberglass
material results in a part that is not to the proper size, shape or weight.
The variance in the parts resulted in a large amount of scrap blades.

CNC Cutting Machine

Over the last 11 years, the capabilities of CNC cutting equip-


ment has greatly improved prompting a study of available equipment.
Lectra was selected as the machinery best suited for HUDSON. The
cutting machine is capable of cutting a one-inch thick stack of fiber-
glass cloth at an average cutting speed of 650 lineal inches per minute.
Extensive software and machinery training was accomplished at the
Lectra offices in Atlanta, GA and at the Beasley, TX facility.

The new spreading machine is much faster and more accurate


than the existing spreading machine, with this accuracy there
is almost no scrap. In addition, the existing spreading table Spreading Machine and Spreader Table
was replaced.

With the CNC cutting machine, spreading


machine and spreading table, it is now more profit-
able for HUDSON to cut the fan blade holder kits at
our plant once again.

by Joey Coatney & Mark Krolczyk

pictured back left: Roy Hamm, Travis Posey, and Ray Ortiz
front left: Damon Richards, Alfred Arguello, Santos Garcia,
Kevin Schneider, David Baumgarten, Adam Vela, Joey Coatney, and
Mark Krolczyk
Who’s Who
Bob was appointed teams. Her experience and knowledge Brian Hanel, is a
as Manager of Fans, of HUDSON’s Fan Products make her a graduate of South-
Parts and Technical unique valuable asset to this company. west Texas State
Services in August University in San
2002. Bob joined Marcos, TX with a
HUDSON in 1996 as Bachelors degree in
Benny Bustos, Cus-
Technology Coordi- marketing and holds
Bob Giammaruti tomers Sales and Brian Hanel
nator and prior to ac- a Masters in Busi-
Service, is a longtime
cepting his current position was a Project ness Administration - International Sales
employee who joined
Manager for air-cooled heat exchangers from the University of St. Thomas in
HUDSON in 1965
in the Projects Department. Before Houston, TX. He joined HUDSON’s Fan
and has held several
transferring to HUDSON, Bob was a Sr. and Parts Sales Group in 1992 as an
positions. His tenure
Engineer for Babcock & Wilcox where Benny Bustos Inside Sales Representative and has
at HUDSON started
he was responsible for product improve- been a member of the Cooling Tower
with 14 years in the Tube-Out shop
ment and development activities in the Institute for eight years. Brian is pres-
where he served as a working
utility power boiler market. ently HUDSON‘s Senior International
leaderman then later transferred to the
Outside Sales Representative.
Bob is now responsible for Plastics Dept. where he mastered fan
HUDSON’s Fan and Parts Sales, Fan blades and hubs. Benny is presently part
Engineering, and Field Service Groups. of the Fan and Parts Sales Group and
He holds a Bachelors and Masters in is known as “Hot-Shot” Benny Yvette Williams,
Mechanical Engineering from Drexel inside HUDSON. Domestic Inside
University in Philadelphia. Sales-OEM’s/
Resellers, has been
Mike Daley, a mem- with HUDSON for 14
Fan and Parts Sales ber of the Cooling years. Her career be-
gan working in the

Lynn began her


FPO T e c h n o l o g y
Institute since the
Yvette Williams
Safety Dept. followed
by Shipping & Receiving, Material
business career at mid 70’s has 22
years of dedicated Control, and Purchasing. She is respon-
HUDSON in Decem- sible for processing customer’s
ber 1965 for the service at HUDSON.
Mike Daley purchase orders and attends to
“Plastics” (fans/ During his early
years at HUDSON, Mike developed customer’s inquires for individual fan
blades) department blades, hub assembles, complete fan
of the Cooling Equip- exceptional skills in fan engineering prior
Lynn Bennett to joining the Fan and Parts Sales Group. assemblies, and finned tubes. Yvette
ment Division, has worked for HUDSON’s Fan and
Hudson Engineering Corp.; later to be His skills stem from many years of ex-
perience in sales of air cooler Parts Sales for the past seven years.
known as Hudson Products Corp. Her
tenure would also include developing repairs, cooling tower repair, thermal
expertise in the Marketing/Proposal upgrade, new cooling towers, sales of
group; the first ever HUDSON vibration analysis and monitoring equip- Kathy Widaski, who
Telemarketing group; followed by the ment. His educational background is in previously served as
Fan and Parts Group where she has mechanical design, drafting and Administrative Assis-
supervised the group for many engineering. As Sales Representative, tant for Fan and Parts
years....always mindful of meeting and/ his primary focus is on the OEM (Origi- Sales, was promoted
or exceeding the customers’ expecta- nal Equipment Manufacturer) cooling to Inside Sales Rep-
tions. Lynn was very active during the tower fan market. resentative, - End
Kathy Widaski
initial implementation of Total Quality Users in October
Management throughout the company 2001. She is responsible for process-
and continues to participate in several ing customer’s purchase orders,
On-Line Internet orders, maintaining the
On-Line Catalog, and scheduling of Field
o in FANS
Service Technicians. Kathy has worked systems, R&D, laboratory testing, field become instrumental in various design
for HUDSON’s Fan and Parts Sales for work, mechanical design, thermal changes to air-cooled heat exchangers
six years. design, and new products development. (ACHEs) and reducing vibration in fans.
Lynn’s experience encompasses aero- His expertise in unit assembly, vibration
space equipment, reciprocating and analysis, fan performance testing, tube
Cheryl Tucker, Fan centrifugal compressors, small OEM bundles, air-cooled heat exchanger
and Parts Sales heat exchangers, large shell and tube performance testing and retrofitting new
Administrative heat exchangers, projects and engineer- components to old HUDSON units and
Assistance joined ing and construction. His addition to the competitor’s units have enabled Charles
HUDSON in June Fan Engineering Dept. helps maintain to provide HUDSON’s customers with
2002. She is respon- HUDSON’s commitment to quality and the highest quality in field service.
sible for expediting service to its customers.
Cheryl Tucker
accounts receivable,
maintaining job files, the customer David Lopez, joined
database, and the distribution of Tuf-Lite Sterling Rhemann, HUDSON in 1974.
catalogs and literature. Fan Engineering, is His tenure at
an honors graduate HUDSON began in
from the University the Hub Shop. In
Fan Engineering of Houston with
a Bachelors of
1983, he served as
working leaderman
David M. Lopez for fan blade quality
Sterling Rhemann
Science in Mechani-
Claire Yu, holds a cal Engineering. He control in the Fan Shop Molding Dept.
Bachelors degree joined HUDSON in 2000 as a Header He has also been part of the ACHE’s
from the University of Designer where he became instrumen- Assembly Dept., QC tester of finned
Houston. She joined tal in the development of a new header tubes in the Finning Dept., leaderman
HUDSON’s engi- design calculation software program. for the Heat Pipe Dept., and night shift
neering team in Sterling recently transferred to the Fan Assistant Plant Manger. David is
1997. Claire is Engineering Group where he now currently a Field Service Technician
Claire Yu
responsible for pro- enjoys the challenging technical aspects experienced in fan balancing, air side
viding AutoCad drafting support to Fan of the axial flow fan product line. airflow testing on ACHE’s and cooling
and Parts Sales, Fan Engineering, Fan towers, blade inspection and evaluation,
Shop, Manufacturing Engineering, on-site fan assembly, retube, structural
Structural Drafting Group, and the Field Service assembly, header repair, and assisting
Projects department. Claire is also in ACHE’s start-ups.
responsible for the maintenance of
Charles Taylor, is a
certified prints, manufacturing specifica-
second generation
tions sheets, instruction manuals, and
HUDSON employee Thomas Kopecky,
all fan project drawings.
with 20 years of ser- Field Service
vice. Charles joined Technician, who
the Field Service previously served in
Lynn Schroeder, group in 1982 and R&D was trans-
Licensed Profes- Charles Taylor
has traveled to ferred to Field
sional Engineer in almost every state in the USA, all the Service in Novem-
Thomas Kopecky
the states of Texas Provinces in Canada, and countless ber 2002. Thomas
and New York, joined foreign countries. He developed the was instrumental in the development of
HUDSON’s fan current fan field balance procedure, was the 2” extruded fin tube, and has
engineering team key to the development of the HUDSON experience in vibration performance and
Lynn Schroeder
in 2000. Lynn brings Fin-Fan bearing, and designed the noise testing on ACHES. He has been
to HUDSON many years of experience current bearing adapter plates. Through with HUDSON for 13 years.
in mechanical analysis, engineering vibration analysis and field trials, he has
Profile

Marketing Team Lunch and Learn Seminars

t he HUDSON sales team is keeping the heat transfer


industry on the leading edge with educational technical
Seminar Outline
New Unit Design
luncheon seminars. Presentations this year included a ® Basics of Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers
number of engineering contractors and end users – Thermal Calculations
around the world in countries such as Canada, – Pressure Vessel Design
Thailand, Singapore, Australia, and Malaysia. We also
® Basics of Axial Flow Fans
visited customers in the USA in Texas, California,
Oklahoma, Washington, and Colorado. ® Noise Prediction Methods

We are continuing to expand our presentations into Cost Reducers, Plot Space Reduction
sessions that will detail thermal sizing methods, ® External Tube Enhancement
pressure vessel calculations, noise predictions, and ® Internal Tube Enhancement
software instruction. During the presentations, we
provide a number of technical handouts, course outlines, Top Five Performance Failures
and free software.
Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers - Applicable Standards

Axial Flow Fans


® HUDSON commenced full scale production of our new
highest efficiency fan to date, Tuf-Lite III®, during October of
this year.

Test installations have exceeded expectations in


performance, as a result, HUDSON has pre-sold a number of
fan assemblies.

As mentioned in the Winter/Spring 2002 Fin-Fanner®, this


fan is expected to raise the performance bar in the axial flow
fan industry. HUDSON’s focus in the fan business will con-
tinue to be on customer service and product quality as it has
been for over 45 years.

Initial sizes will be 28’ and 30’ as well as a 10 meter model


for cooling tower applications.
HUDSON Parts
at Clearance Prices
The following parts are being offered at the prices noted.
Contact HUDSON’s Fan and Parts Sales Department
at 1-800-634-9160 and reference this advertisement.

Part No. Description Quantity List Price Clearance Price

Tuf-Lite® Fan Blades

80015 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE,15',B 11 $908.00 $454.00


80025 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE,25',BH 11 $1,170.00 $585.00
80026 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE,26',BH 6 $1,868.00 $934.00
80107 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE,7',C 22 $336.00 $168.00
80118 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE,18',C, 7 $1,007.00 $503.50
80159 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE,9',D 5 $545.00 $272.50
80160 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE,10',D 13 $570.00 $285.00
80313 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE,13',W 3 $930.00 $465.00
80315 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE,15',W 5 $1,050.00 $525.00

Tuf-Lite II® Fan Blades

84015 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE II,15',H 1 $767.00 $383.50


84020HC BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE II,20',HC 13 $1,038.00 $519.00
84111 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE II,11',HW 1 $789.00 $394.50
84130 BLADE,FAN,TUF-LITE II,30',HW 4 $1,930.00 $965.00

Seal Discs and Inlet/Outlet Bells

81116 DISC,SEAL,AV,53",M847-E-1 2 $196.00 $98.00


81205 BELL,I/O,5' FAN 23 $50.00 $25.00
81216 BELL,I/O,16' FAN,M-890-N 26 $93.00 $46.50
D8037 DISC-ASSY,SEAL,AP,168"R,7 BL 1 $2,318.00 $1,159.00

The above items are subject to availability; and will be sold on a first come/first served basis.
Hudson’s Outlook
w e
reporting many
are location change moves us closer to
our manufacturing plant in Beasley,
Texas. The move to this South West
change the market expectations for axial
flow fan durability and performance
standards.
changes at
Hudson Products Houston community will also improve
the quality of life for many of our We will not change safety as
Corporation in
Houston employees. a priority at HUDSON. I am pleased
this issue of the
to report that on November 5, 2002
Fin-Fanner®
We continue to be pleased with the we completed our third consecutive year
newsletter.
performance of our new Joint Venture without a lost time injury which is a
P. Eric Ralston, President company, Hudson-HEI, operating in HUDSON record. I congratulate all of
Australia and the South East Asian our employees for this outstanding
On July 10, 2002, McDermott region. Our significant move into this achievement.
International Inc. sold Hudson Products region has been a major change for
Corporation to a group of investors led HUDSON. Hudson-HEI has signifi- Finally, there will be a change in
by Madison Capital Partners of Chicago, cantly increased their backlog and with leadership at HUDSON. After 37 years
Illinois. This change of ownership will not manufacturing operations in Australia with four McDermott International Inc.
change HUDSON’s focus to be a world and Indonesia they are positioned as companies and three years with Hudson
wide leading supplier of heat transfer the leading supplier of heat transfer Products Corporation, I am planning my
equipment and axial flow fans. products in the South East Asian region. retirement. I have thoroughly enjoyed
my tenure with HUDSON and would like
Also on July 1, 2002 we relocated We are now in full production with to thank all of our employees, suppliers,
our United States office to a new facility our most advanced design, Tuff-Lite III® and customers for this extremely
in Sugar Land, Texas. This office fan blade. This advanced design will satisfying conclusion to my full time
working career.

The Environmental Edge The Ethics Help-Line is an


Alternative Method to Voice

As many of you are aware, HUDSON manufactures


heat transfer equipment and axial flow fans at its
Your Concerns.
281-275-8193
Beasley, TX facility. During the process of this manu-
facturing, a variety of waste steams are
generated. In previous articles, we have described Fin-Fanner® is published by:
both waste recycling and minimization efforts.

Shayne Beauchamp HUDSON is pleased to announce that with the www.hudsonproducts.com


Chief Environmental Officer help of the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality we are now expanding our offsite recycling.
Telephone Number Correction:
By finding use for our fiberglass scrap in other fiberglass processes,
1307 Soldiers Field Drive
we have diverted several tons of waste per year from landfills. With Sugar Land, Texas 77479
this project, we have helped benefit both HUDSON and other P. O. Box 20029
businesses in our area by reducing other companies’ material cost Sugar Land, Texas 77496-0029
and HUDSON’s disposal fees. We consider this project to have Ph: 281-275-8100
additional potential. Fax: 281-275-8211
email:hudsonproducts@hudsonproducts.com
We will continue the growth of this program by involving additional
types of fiberglass manufacturing with potential use of our product. In
doing so, we hope to encourage others to be “In Partnership with Editor:
the Environment”. Silvia Guebara

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