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Coal Power Plants Look for Ways to Reduce SO2 Emissions with SDA Scrubbers; IGS Helps Plant to Ensure SDA Scrubbers Perform for an Extended Lifetime at Antelope Valley Basin Electric

RICHMOND, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Many coal-based power plants have increased their emissions control because of regulatory requirements. One of the emissions output that is watched very closely by regulatory agencies are sulfur dioxide (SO2) gases. Investments in new equipment for removing SO2 emissions can be very costly and coal power plants are looking for ways to […]

Integrated Global Services Opens New Global Headquaters, Dev, Achieves Record 2013 Results

RICHMOND, VA., January 10, 2014 –(BUSINESS WIRE)– Integrated Global Services (IGS) is pleased to announce the opening of its new global headquarters at 7600 Whitepine Road in Richmond, Virginia.  IGS will formally celebrate the opening of the new facility in a ribbon-cutting ceremony later this month.  The facility more than doubles the capacity of the company’s previous […]

Integrated Global Services (IGS) Announces Successful Application of Over 30,000 Square Feet of UTEx 5-420®, UTEx 5-620®, and Other Corrosion-Resistant Materials to Major Oil Refineries and Processing Plants

RICHMOND, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Integrated Global Services (IGS), an emerging global leader in corrosion-resistant cladding technologies and solutions, announced today that it has successfully protected over 30,000 square feet of surface within critical oil and gas processing units in North America, Europe, and Asia during the first half of 2012. Among the various materials utilized in these […]

Popcorn Ash “Plugging” Catalyst Replacement Models

Coal-fired power generating stations are increasingly aware of popcorn ash “plugging” their SCR catalysts, and thus, their catalyst lifecycle replacement models as well. Although experts from SCR catalyst manufacturers rarely predict significant plugging of the catalyst face from LPA or popcorn ash in the design stage of a SCR retrofit project, all too often a […]

Combined On-Site HVTS and Overlay Protects PC-Fired Boiler

Recently, IGS provided surface protection for a large utility with a 265 MW CE coal-fired boiler with Low Nox Burners and SOFA. The varying wastage rates in the different areas of the boiler, mix of erosion and corrosion issues, and previous poor performance of the existing thermal spray coating lent itself well to an IGS […]

Automated Pulse-Mig Overlay Protects Boiler Nose Arch

IGS recently performed automated weld overlay on the nose arch of a large power utility’s Units 1 & 2, 640mw Foster Wheeler boilers. Unit 1 was accomplished in the fall. The quality of the work was at a level that we were the preferred vendor for the work on Unit 2 in the spring. The […]