History

McCartney Products, now made by KMT, were first produced in the 1940's. From the very beginning, expertise and products focused on close tolerances and fine surface finishes. This ability to do precision machining was a perfect match for high pressure production equipment used in low density polyurethane production and the equipment required to produce and contain high pressure water for waterjet cutting.



In 1951, McCartney started the manufacture of high-pressure valves and fittings as required by the low-density polyethylene industry. This was in the early stages of LDPE production in the United States. During the period 1951 through 1960, the manufacture of these components was performed based on customers' detailed machine drawings. In 1960, McCartney started manufacturing catalyst injection pumps, modifier pumps, H.P. tube fabrication, H.P. double-pipe/tube heat exchangers, tubular reactors, let-down and safety dump valves, recycle ethylene gas filters and other specialty high-pressure equipment as required by the industry. Valves are furnished with various types of operators including manual, pneumatic, hydraulic, electric and electro-hydraulic.