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The Growing Success—and Increasing Needs—of American Oil and Gas
By now it should come as no surprise that American manufacturing is back, and all signs point to full speed ahead. There are many reasons for this, and one of them is our country’s natural gas boom—an abundance of production and supply that’s helping to make manufacturing here more cost effective and competitive.
In fact, the Energy Information Administration recently reported that “soaring shale production” resulted in 2013 seeing the fastest growth rate ever for oil production.* Articles such as this one confirm this, pointing out that America should be completely self sufficient in oil production by 2037—meaning zero imports and enough domestic production to support the entire country’s energy needs.
DFT Inc. Hits the Airwaves with Net Worth and Terry Bradshaw
Many people know Terry Bradshaw as a football player, and from his antics as part of Fox’s Sunday broadcast team. A growing number are learning about, if not his serious side, at least a side of him that isn’t all fun and games.
As host of the television program Net Worth, Bradshaw has been letting America in on a not-so-well-kept secret: that aside from his on-the-field and in-the-studio accomplishments, he is also a savvy, sharp businessman. Fun fact: he may have planted that seed as a used-car salesman – while he was still playing football. Imagine if that were LeSean McCoy’s offseason job!
Net Worth showcases the most creative, the most successful, and just the best in business across a wide range of industries. For these reasons, we were incredibly proud when DFT Inc. was asked to be featured in a segment in 2013. The Net Worth show featured DFT’s exclusive Canadian distributor Triangle Fluid Controls , or TFC. We view this segment and DFT’s inclusion on Net Worth as both humbling as well as a signal that we’re doing something right in our quest to provide the best products and service in check valves.
Harsh Conditions Call for Tougher Equipment
Certain industrial environments are harsher than others, and not all valves can take the heat. For example, the pulp and paper industry utilizes processes called batch steam cooks. The processes involve very hot steam, tough chemicals, and a high level of repetition- not ideal for just any valve. Pulp is one of the most abundant raw materials in the world and the United States is the second biggest supplier of paper across the globe. That means there are many mills in need of durable, reliable equipment. Some mills have also started producing pulp for the textile industry, another huge global market that requires mass quantities of material.
Keeping Up With The Food & Beverage Industry
The food and beverage industry in the United States is undergoing significant changes when it comes to trends, regulations, and tastes. Consumers are looking for healthier options, more attractive packaging, and more local ingredients. The industry has risen to the challenge and is rapidly evolving to meet these new consumer desires. Food processing has shed its reputation for unhealthy and unattractive food as new technologies allow companies to mass produce up-to-the-minute products such as guacamole and hummus without adding tons of preservatives. Regulations to lower sodium and trans fat counts as well as national movements to incorporate more healthy foods into school lunches has also presented a challenge to the food and beverage industry, but it was a challenge that was met with innovation and success. The industry is booming and food processing companies have come up with new and fresh ways to stay competitive and give consumers exactly what they are looking for.
Metering the Energy Boom
There’s no doubt about it- the North American oil and gas industry has been booming over the past year. As technology advances, it has become possible to discover large new fossil fuel deposits and extract them from places previously thought unreachable. This is especially true of the vast shale formations across the country, namely the Eagle Ford, Barnett, Bakken, and Marcellus shale plays, among many others. The Bakken formation, which lies underneath parts of North Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan, has been very popular recently as it was discovered to hold vast quantities of shale oil and natural gas with estimates in the billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.
