PT&P in the Community: Back To School

September 11, 2017

Piping Technology & Products joins the Houston Independent School District in giving back to the community.

 

SPED Hosts 2010 Corporate Member Showcase

October 6, 2010

Our company is a corporate member of SPED, the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers. On October 28, 2010 SPED will celebrate it’s 30th Anniversary with the 2010 Corporate Member Showcase and 30th Annual General Business Meeting at the Houston Marriott Energy Corridor from 6 PM until 9:30 PM. Tickets are available at www.spedweb.com.

You will be able to network, see the latest products and services from SPED Corporate Members, and hear presentations from three Piping Industry experts:

* Kathey Ferland, Project Manager, University of Texas at Austin
* Thomas J. Van Laan, P.E., Senior Vice President, Intergraph, CADWorx & Analysis Solutions
* Paul Spring, President, Business Development and Product Strategy, AVEVA

Dinner will be served. In conjunction with the Annual Meeting, a Professional Piping Designer Certification Review and Exam will be held on October 28th with Dr. William G. Beazley at the Marriott from 8 A.M. until 5:00 P.M. For more information, or to register, please send SPED an email at spedmgr1@spedweb.com.

Look for our booth at this year’s SPED Corporate Member Showcase!

High School Drafting Students Visit PT&P

October 4, 1998

Thirty-six students in the drafting program at the Houston Independent School District’s Barbara Jordan High School for Careers spent a Friday morning in November 1997 learning how technical drawings are used during the fabrication of pipe supports, pressure vessels, expansion joints and other items produced at PT&P.

After an introductory review of PT&P’s business and a one-hour lecture covering specific projects requiring drawings (made more palatable by cookies) the students took a tour of PT&P’s plant. Students saw shears, saws and burning machines cutting metal pieces to be welded. In another area, they saw how a metal sheet is seam welded and then formed into bellows elements for expansion joints. They also saw how polyurethane components are produced for cryogenic pipe supports.

High School Visit
High School Visit

The tour was arranged by Wilford Stewart, who teaches drafting at BJHS. The first course in the program is a traditional technical drawing board course, followed by courses on computer-aided drafting using AutoCAD. Students must take Algebra and Geometry concurrently with their drafting. Jesse Porter, Sr. Graphics Manager at PT&P, conducted the tour (see photo).

PT&P looks forward to having young people from the school district learn about how they can put what they learn to good use in industry. By supporting the public schools, PT&P hopes to show it cares about the future of education.

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