Company News
Wood Equipment Company Celebrates our Employees on Labor Day
Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. At Wood Equipment, we have several amazing employees who have been a part of our team for many years. Our most recent employee anniversary was just this past week, when Melody Edwards reached 35 years of service!! As a mother of two, grandmother,…
Custom Solutions from the Wood Equipment Fab Shop
The Wood Equipment Fab Shop can help to customize our offerings according to your needs. For instance, a food industry customer recently required that an Eagle Burgmann cartridge seal be installed on their Viking Q124A Hot Oil Pump. We had the new pump and seal shipped to our Fab Shop, installed the seal, and then…
World Water Week at Wood Equipment Company
This is World Water Week, which is celebrated both virtually and at a conference in Stockholm, Sweden, where representatives from all over the world convene to address the many water-related challenges we face. As stated on the website, “World Water Week is the place to explore new ways of managing water and tackle humanity’s greatest…
Highlighting Ashland Volunteer Rescue Squad for National Nonprofit Day
Today is National Non-Profits Day, and Wood Equipment Company would like to thank all of our local non-profit organizations that work tirelessly to better our community. As stated on the National Today website, “National Nonprofit Day is commemorated on August 17th each year to recognize nonprofit organizations’ ongoing efforts to serve the local community. If…
Wood Equipment Company Case Study: Skid-Mounted Cornell Heavy Duty 4STX Self Primer
An industrial customer needed a solution for their wet well that would allow them to easily perform maintenance on their pumps. Due to space limitations with the way the wet well and surrounding building were constructed, they could not install a proper retrieval system for the existing submersible pumps: Whenever a pump failed, they had…
Rebuilding a Cornell Heavy-Duty Centrifugal Pump
This Cornell heavy-duty centrifugal pump moves water from a retention pond that is sprayed on a crusher conveyor for an open pit gravel plant. After years of excellent service, it was time for an overhaul at our Wood Equipment Fabrication Shop. As you can see from the before photos, the pump was in need of…
Team Building with Blue Bell Ice Cream
Wood Equipment is fortunate to have Blue Bell Ice Cream (https://www.bluebell.com/) as a next door neighbor! We recently celebrated our weekly Hawaiian Shirt Friday with a sampling of many of their delicious specialty ice creams. This is just one example of the many team-building events that make Wood Equipment Company a great place to work!
Proudly Representing Scot Pumps by Wilo
Wood Equipment Company proudly represents the Scot line of pumps, a Wilo brand. Recently, a food industry customer needed to replace several hot tracer water pumps, but their existing pumps were obsolete. Wood Equipment was able to find a great fit to replace the obsolete pumps with Scot Model 503 Motorpumps close coupled to premium…
Wood Equipment Company Case Study: MWI Mobile Pump System Demonstration
Recently Wood Equipment Company organized a demonstration of a trailer-mounted MWI Self-Priming Pump with sound-attenuated enclosure for a municipal customer in western Virginia. At the Virginia Rural Water Association (VRWA) trade show in April, managers of the City’s Water Department had expressed interest in a mobile diesel-driven pump system that could handle various tasks, such…
2022 Conferences – Recap & Looking Ahead
The first half of 2022 has flown by, and Wood Equipment has been busy. We exhibited at the VWEA Conference in Charlottesville, VA in February, the VRWA Conference & Tech Expo in Roanoke, VA in April, and the VWEA Education Seminar in Richmond, VA in May. And we have much more planned for the second…