Openso
is now the worldwide licensee of Nooter
Corporation for their high end fabrication technology.
Openso has obtained rights to use or sub-license Nooter's technology
for titanium clad and zirconium clad, in both single and double
integrity, and tantalum clad, as well as solution annealed Hastelloy
B-2 fabrication including Hastelloy B-2 Plywall acetic acid reactors.
Openso has access to Nooter's remaining design files, job files,
drawings, procedures and research records.
Through
a sub-licensing agreement, Openso can now offer complete or partial
technology transfer packages to fabricators and end users around
the world. As part of our comprehensive package for transfer of
these technologies we provide instruction and hands on training
in all aspects of design and fabrication for these materials.
The transfer of technology can be customized to satisfy client's
needs for upgrading to these materials. Services and information
available include:
Shop survey and report on suggested improvements in facilities
and equipment to implement the technologies.
Instruction in the application of ASME Code for the design
of pressure vessels and TEMA for the design of heat exchangers
using these high technology materials.
Nooter's proprietary and confidential standards for fabrication
details not shown on shop drawings sent to customers. These
details include seam intersections, batten strip weld details,
facing and liner details for nozzles and body flanges, and
specialized self-reinforced nozzle details.
Nooter research and development records for these technologies.
Pertinent sections from Nooter's material specification
manual with proprietary information regarding the purchase
of critical materials.
Pertinent sections from Nooter's policy and procedures manual
covering Nooter's standards for head forming, wrapping multi-layer
vessels, hot cycle testing, etc.
Detailed job specific fabrication procedures for similar
vessels using the same high technology materials.
Hands-on training at a customer's fabrication shop in the
forming, fitting and welding of vessel seams.
About Nooter Corporation
Nooter
Corporation was founded in 1896 in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Nooter began welding vessels in carbon steel in the mid-1920 and
stainless steel in the early 1940's. In the late 1940's, many
new materials were introduced for pressure vessel and heat exchanger
use, such as Inconel, Incoloy, Carpenter 20, Hastelloy B and C,
etc. Nooter quickly gained the reputation as a high quality fabricator
of these materials. Nooter was relied upon by major chemical companies
in the USA and overseas as the one company that was capable of
designing and fabricating sophisticated, critical equipment at
the heart of the plant in these materials. In the early 1960's,
Nooter added solid titanium and then zirconium and tantalum fabrication.
Most importantly, in 1963 Nooter was the first company in the
world to develop the details for reactive metal (titanium, zirconium,
and tantalum) clad welding. Nooter received patents for the discoveries
and then built hundreds of reactive metal clad pressure vessels
and heat exchangers that were shipped around the world. At the
same time, Nooter developed technologies for multi-layer (Plywall)
vessels, inner bore tube welding, and plasma arc weld overlay
as well as hot gas cycle testing, and quench annealing of Hastelloy
B-2.
Nooter
enjoyed the reputation as the premier custom fabricator of stainless
steel, duplex stainless steels, nickel alloys, Hastelloy alloys,
and reactive metal (titanium, zirconium and tantalum) both solid
and clad equipment. Nooter transferred the fabrication shop business
to Nooter Fabricators in 1998. The shop in St. Louis was closed
in 2001, ending 105 years of fabrication excellence. However,
this knowledge and expertise is not lost to industry but is now
made available worldwide through licensing from Openso.
Openso
is now the worldwide licensee of 
Through
a sub-licensing agreement, Openso can now offer complete or partial
technology transfer packages to fabricators and end users around
the world. As part of our comprehensive package for transfer of
these technologies we provide instruction and hands on training
in all aspects of design and fabrication for these materials.
The transfer of technology can be customized to satisfy client's
needs for upgrading to these materials. Services and information
available include: 
Nooter
enjoyed the reputation as the premier custom fabricator of stainless
steel, duplex stainless steels, nickel alloys, Hastelloy alloys,
and reactive metal (titanium, zirconium and tantalum) both solid
and clad equipment. Nooter transferred the fabrication shop business
to Nooter Fabricators in 1998. The shop in St. Louis was closed
in 2001, ending 105 years of fabrication excellence. However,
this knowledge and expertise is not lost to industry but is now
made available worldwide through licensing from Openso.
