Slug catchers and pig traps. Those sound like things you might find in a garden or hog farm, but they are actually devices that are used in the natural gas industry. Today we’ll meet a remarkable Kansas company which is the world’s leading supplier of such devices and which also builds metal products used in ways as diverse as nuclear submarines and rockets for outer space.
Mike Kilkenny is CEO and owner of Taylor Forge Engineered Systems in Paola, Kansas. This amazing company produces heavy duty products for these diverse uses and more.
In 1900, an inventor named J. Hall Taylor launched a pipe works company – now known as Taylor Forge – in Chicago. Three decades later, another engineering company started a facility in Paola, Kansas to serve the natural gas industry. Paola is centrally located between the Hugoton gas field to the west and industrial centers in big cities to the east.
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