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The State-of-the-Art in Fab Shops

Conserve your hard-earned investment capital. Concentrate on your own core competencies, and use Kirk & Blum's proven fabrication competence as if it were your own. Forget about inventory, OSHA/EPA compliance nightmares, training, personnel issues and other headaches. Kirk & Blum gives you everything you could dream of in a fab shop – and more:

  • Shop resources for parts to maximum truck size, 17 ft. high and weighing 25 tons.
  • Masterful work on round, contoured or prismatic shapes, specializing in gauge metal to 1" plate, with 6" plate features.
  • A skilled, veteran workforce, backed by the experience and stability of a company nearly 100 years old.
  • Turnkey capability, including product design, detailing, finishing, machining and assembly, or à la carte services.
  • A company culture focused on value engineering, Kaizen, and JIT delivery, geared to help you improve, simplify and drive cost out of your products and projects.
  • State-of-the-art computer technology for creative design, total project management, plant automation, communications.
  • Rated a "Most Valued Supplier" and "Supplier of Excellence" by companies like Siemens, GE and Link Belt.

Our Vital Statistics

Part Size

Maximum allowable shipping size. Numerous overhead cranes up to 25 tons

Material Range

22 gauge carbon steel to 8" plate. Stainless and aluminum to 2" plate.

Codes

AWS D1.1 and AWS D9.1
Q.C. manual conforms to ISO 9001

Laser

  • Table – 60" x 120"
  • Mild steel – to .625"
  • Stainless steel – to .500"
  • Aluminum –to .250"
  • 1500W with pulse output of 3000W
  • Programmable “Z” axis
  • Touch sensor for prepunched parts

Burning

  • Multiple high-definition plasma burners with 8' x 20' tables, capacity to 2" mild steel
  • CNC thermal cutting center - 3 oxy/fuel and 1 plasma, to 8” mild steel and 2” stainless steel, with 10' x 20' table.
  • Variety of other NC/CNC plasma and oxyacetylene burners

Shearing

  • Up to 1/2" x 16'

Punching

  • Multiple CNC turret presses, 45-ton, 60" throat, capacity (reposition to handle 150" long)
  • Many other mechanical punch presses of various types

Forming

  • Variety of brakes up to 12.5' between housings, 16' die space, 600 tons, 10" stroke with auto gaging.
  • Numerous plate rolls ranging up to 12' wide x 1/2" thick.

Structural Fabricating Equipment

  • NC Linear punch line, 82 ton
  • Many types of automatic cut-off saws, band saws, etc.
  • Ironworkers
  • Angle, bar, plate, and channel rolls/cutters
  • Ring and flange punches

Welding

  • Manual/automatic/portable: MIG, TIG, heliarc, rod, spot/resistance
  • Automatic MIG/TIG lines to 6' x 1/4"

Cleaning and Painting

  • Steam cleaning with multi-stage phosphatizing
  • Dry filter and water-wash spray booths

Secondary Services

  • Extensive heavy machining capabilities
  • X-ray testing, spot or continuous, service in our plant
  • Stress relieving
  • Pickling and passivating
  • Sand, grit, shot blasting
  • Hot dip galvanizing
  • Linings and plating
  • Powder coating