Cover Story
In this month’ s exclusive Valve
World cover story, we speak with Wolfgang Röhrig, Managing Director and sole partner at OHL Gutermuth to look at how OHL has turned the humble valve into a high-performance, long-life, climate-enabling powerhouse.
By Lyndsey Denton-Fray, Valve World
3-way reactor switching valves with full intensive heating jacket.
Forged for extremes: OHL’ s toughest and greenest valves
In the world of industrial process engineering, valves are usually unacknowledged. They sit between flanges, do their job and sometimes disappear into the background. But at OHL Gutermuth, a German company with roots stretching back over 150 years, valves are anything but ordinary. They are exotic feats of engineering, designed to thrive in sulfuric hellscapes, survive Arctic-like cryogenics and enable breakthrough energy innovations that could help decarbonise entire industries. At the heart of its portfolio sits a valve that looks and performs like nothing else: the OHL 4-way
CDM valve. Designed for some of the harshest chemical environments, this valve is a testament to OHL’ s philosophy: that industrial components should not only perform under extreme pressure and temperature but also do so for decades, even generations. But deeper lies the fundament of customer relations and investments in new technologies at OHL, which Wolfgang Röhrig helps describe.
The 4-Way CDM Valve for SRU
In sulphur recovery units( SRUs), where gases like hydrogen sulphide( H2S) and sulphur dioxide( SO2)
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