Casting Central to Hydrant Revolution
OEM startup Sigelock is out to change the way fire hydrants are designed and operated, and a metal casting is helping make it happen.
Shea Gibbs, Senior Editor G
eorge Sigelakis makes sure he is heard. In a recent eight-person conference call about his business, his voice was the loudest.
So when Sigelakis, a veteran New
York City firefighter, decided more than a decade and a half ago he wanted to reinvent the fire hydrant,
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it’s no wonder people listened. Today, Sigelakis and his team, Sigelock Systems LLC, New York, are on the precipice of what they believe will be a total paradigm shift in the way the world buys hydrants. “I’ve said to everyone, we are going
from the Neanderthal to the modern man,” Sigelakis said. “It’s the horse and
buggy to the modern day race car. It’s a whole new animal in hydrants.” If he’s right, Sigelock is going to buy a lot of castings over the next few years. Central to the success of the new design is a 140-lb. cast ductile iron hydrant body that houses the rest of the assembly in its 24 x 14 x 14- in. envelope. According to Sigelakis,
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