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About us

Steam & Air Solutions (SAS), a business unit of the EMS Division of Curtiss-Wright, is a leading designer and manufacturer of mission-essential, high-speed rotating equipment solutions, including reciprocating & centrifugal compressors, steam turbines, and steam system valves, supporting the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and submarines, and most major U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs. SAS is the sole supplier of steam turbines and main engine guard valves on all aircraft carrier programs.

Curtiss-Wright’s Steam Turbines, Compressors, Blowers, and Valves are in use on the following ships and submarines:

• Ticonderoga-class (CG)
• Nimitz-class (CVN)
• Gerald R. Ford-class (CVN)
• Arleigh Burke-class (DDG)
• Wasp-class (LHD)
• San Antonio-class (LPD)
• Whidbey Island-class (LSD)
• Virginia-class (SSN)
• Ohio-class (SSBN)
• Seawolf-class (SSN)
• Los Angeles-class (SSN)
• Henry J. Kaiser-class (T-AO)
• America-class (LHA)
• Supply-class (T-AOE)