Charleston, South Carolina
In-house R&D and product development, PLC and HMI controls integration, and robotic and heavy weldments, from first prototype to production run.
What we do
Most of what leaves here was developed, prototyped, machined, welded and wired without crossing a property line. Fewer handoffs, fewer surprises, one company answering for the whole machine.
01 / DEVELOPMENT
Bring a problem, a sketch or a half-finished design. We develop it with you, then build the mockups and first articles in the same shop that builds the production run.
02 / CONTROLS
Controls designed alongside the machine rather than bolted on after it, so the panel, the program and the steel arrive as one system.
03 / WELDING
A FANUC robotic arc welding cell for repeat work, and fixtured manual welding for structural frames too big or too heavy for most shops.
04 / MACHINING
Five-axis milling on a 50-taper trunnion machine and turning with live tooling and a Y axis, so most parts finish complete in one or two setups.
05 / TOOLING
Punches, dies and forming tools made in house, for our own production and for yours.
06 / PRODUCTION
Your product, built to your drawings on a repeating schedule, with the cutting, bending, forming and assembly done here.
07 / ON SITE
When the work cannot come to the shop, we take the shop to it.
Flagship work
Complete structural skid packages: frames, bases, racks, covers and grating, built as a repeating production set rather than a one-off. Long beams, heavy plate and hundreds of tapped holes per unit.
The work that defines the shop is large structural weldments assembled into finished skids. Frames run past twenty-two feet, which puts them beyond the envelope of a typical job shop saw.
Repeat sets are built on precision fixturing rather than on layout, so unit two matches unit one and the labor curve actually comes down. Beam that exceeds our saw envelope is bought cut to length from the service center and detailed here, which keeps a long part from becoming an impossible in-house cut.
Copes, chamfers and tap-drilled holes stay in house. Tapped holes are drilled rather than thermally cut, because work-hardened edges do not tap cleanly, and hardware locations are chased after galvanizing where the spec calls for it.
| Longest frame built | 22 ft 10 in |
|---|---|
| Heaviest finished assembly | Over 30,000 lb |
| Heaviest single weldment | Approx. 5,300 lb |
| Structural shapes | Through W16 and heavier |
| In-house saw envelope | 12.5 in × 12.5 in |
| Longer stock | Cut to length by the service center |
| Plate | A36, pickled and oiled where offered |
| Sheet | Hot rolled, pickled and oiled |
| Structural | A992 shapes, HSS |
| Production cadence | Multi-unit sets, scheduled |
PROJECT / NASA STENNIS SPACE CENTER
Nine adapters, each about nine feet tall, built for removing rocket fuel tanks at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Every one was load tested to 250,000 lb, and all nine passed the first time.
We also designed and built the fixture for the load tests, so the test facility could attach its slings to the adapters safely.
| Units built | 9 |
|---|---|
| Load test | 250,000 lb, each unit |
| Result | All nine passed, first time |
| Height | About 9 ft |
| Used at | NASA Stennis Space Center, Mississippi |
| Test fixture | Designed and built here for safe rigging at the test facility |
Recent work
Every photo on this page is from our own jobs: in the shop, on site and in the plant.
Equipment
The real list, not a capability brochure. If a machine is named here it is installed and running.
Quality
Inspection is a step in the router, not a favor at the end. What gets measured and what gets recorded is agreed before the first cut.
Long weldments are scanned rather than tape-measured. A laser scan of a finished frame compares the as-built against the model, which is the only practical way to prove a twenty-foot weldment landed where the drawing said.
Magnetic particle inspection and ultrasonic thickness gauging are done in house, so welds and wall thickness are checked without the part leaving the building.
Mill test reports and domestic melt confirmation are available where the job requires them. Where a spec calls for US-sourced steel we buy to it and keep the paper.
How it runs
A sketch, a problem statement or a full drawing package with a STEP model. We start wherever you are.
Concept, prototype and mockup, with the controls designed alongside the steel. You sign off on a first article before anything runs in volume.
Every part is counted off the model, nested and priced against live material quotes. Conflicts and gaps come back as written questions before anything is ordered.
Machine, form and weld on precision fixturing or the robot, wire and program the controls, and inspect at the points agreed in the quote.
Contact
Send a drawing package, or just the problem, and we will come back with questions, a plan and a number.
A drawing package, a STEP model, photos or a description of the problem all work. Part count, sizes, material, quantity and target date help us come back faster.
