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Taylor Forge Engineered Systems is an American manufacturer of liquid separation equipment for the pipeline industry. It was formed in 1984 when Gulf and Western sold its Taylor Forge operations in Paola, Kansas and Greeley, Kansas to private investors. The company also has manufacturing facilities in Garnett, Kansas and Tulsa, Oklahoma. [1] [2] In June 2015, TFES completed work on its largest project, a 12-finger inlet slug catcher weighing nearly 378,000 pounds, destined for BP's Shah Deniz natural gas project in Azerbaijan. [3]

Taylor Forge was an engineering and manufacturing company founded by J. Hall Taylor in 1900 as the American Spiral Pipe Works. It was renamed Taylor Forge & Pipe Works in 1929 and acquired by Gulf and Western in 1967. In 1984, G + W divested itself of its Taylor Forge operations to private investors, forming Taylor Forge Stainless and Taylor Forge Engineered Systems which consisted primarily of the Paola, KS facility TF acquired from Fluor Corporation in 1959.

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References

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  2. "About". Taylor Forge Engineered Systems.
  3. "Tipping The Scales". Miami County Republic. Retrieved 28 June 2015.