Since 1968, Curtiss-Wright EST Group has specialized in the development, and manufacture of tools and systems that greatly simplify maintenance of shell & tube and air-cooled heat exchangers, condensors as well as test plug systems that expedite in-service inspection of open end pipe, piping systems, tubing and pressure vessels. Our plugging and testing systems have saved customers millions of dollars in maintenance and downtime.
EST Group serves the power generation, upstream oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, fine chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries worldwide.
Our flagship product, Pop-A-Plug® Heat Exchanger Tube Plugs, are the industry’s leading technology for plugging leaking and degraded heat exchanger tubes.
EST Group also engineers and manufactures GripTight® test and isolation plugs to greatly simplify and expedite pressure testing and/or isolation of piping, tubing, valves, pressure vessels and a multitude of special applications.