Chemical company's 34-year-old cooling tower still in style
When you consider the products introduced to the marketplace in the early 1980s, most of them are no longer in use. During that time, for example, the first personal computers were running the DOS operating system, the DeLorean “Back to the Future” sports car hit the street, and Sony was offering the world its Betamax video cassette player and the Walkman personal music player.
The year 1981 also saw the introduction of the world’s first 150-ton molded seamless plastic cooling tower. Featuring a seamless high-density polyethylene (HDPE) shell, this design was essentially impervious to the corrosion problems that plagued conventional, metal-clad cooling towers, resulting in exorbitant downtime for frequent repairs or replacement.