This facility has wide ranging manufacturing capabilities including fitting, custom fabrication, etc.
Please contact your Ameron sales representative for further information.
Plant Description:
Over 37 acres in San Bernardino Co., approximately 50 miles east of Los Angeles, CA
Typical Manufacturing Specifications:
   
  • AWWA C200
Scope of Fabrication:
This plant is qualified to offer steel fabrication to the following codes
ASME Section I
ASME Section VIII, Division I and II
AWS
AWWA
 
Code Inspection Agency for ASME
Pressure Vessels:
State of California, Department of Industrial Safety
 
Facilities
Approximate total square feet of working area: 217,000
North Bay 116,000  
South Bay 154,000  
Spiral Pipe Bay 121,000  
Gantry Area 116,000  
Testing 110,000  
   
Building Bay and Crane Data

Bay Width Lift Length Number &
Capacity
Electric

North Bay 65' 35' 1100' 1 ea 25/ton x
North Bay 65' 35' 1050' 2 ea 40/ton x
Lean-to 60' 15' 800' 5 ea 5/ton x
Cage Area 30' 50' 175' 1 ea 5/ton x
South Bay 65' 50' 840' 3 ea 40/ton x
Spiral Pipe Bay 75' 35' 280' 1 ea 20/ton x
Gantry Area 39' 24' 420' 2 ea 10/ton x
        2 ea 7½/ton x

Two Level Beds for Horizontal Tower and Pressure Vessel construction
South Bay 65' x 240  
North Bay 65' x 400  
Shipping  
Railroad: Southern Pacific  
Two spurs into buildings  
Loading capacity at siding of 120 tons with over headcrane (South Bay only)
Yard Handling Equipment
1 each Mobile Crane 35 tons
8 each Forklift Trucks 2 to 53 tons
2 each Travel lifts 25 to 30 tons
   
Fabrication Equipment
Cutting and Forming
Burning - Airco Sevrograph "K" - table capacity 12' x 40'
   Flame Planner - table capacity 10' x 150'
   Thermal Arc Plasma Cutting - maximum plate thickness 2"
   Various portable burning equipment
Saws - Do All Band Saw - capacity 13" high x 32" throat
   Marvel Band Saw capacity 18" x 18"
   HEM Band Saw - maximum beam size 24" depth
Shears - Cincinnati - ½" x 8' 0" plate capacity
   Niagara - ¼" x 20'0" Plate Capacity  
Angle And Tube Bending Rolls - Buffalo, No 2, vertical, 5" x5" x 5/8" angle maximum capacity
Brake - Pacific - hydraulic, 1,000 ton - 21' 0" wide x 16" deep x 30" open height with 18" stroke
Bulldozers (1) - 200 ton  
Flanger - Blue Valley - size 6, maximum size 5/8" x 10' 0" diameter
Presses - 5,000-ton hydraulic, 4 post, 11' 9" wide x 6' 9" x deep x 13' 5" open height with 4' 6" stroke
   Mubea No. 3-½ Iron Worker, 132 tons
Rolls - Bertsch No. 34 -35" x 10' 0" pinch type, maximum plate thickness - 4" cold, 7" hot
   Kling HD-7 - 25" x 160", pyramid type, maximum plate thickness - 3"
   Pope - 13-5/8" 10' 0" pinch type, maximum plate thickness ½"
   
Welding  
Inside and Outside Long Seam Welder - 20' diameter x 25' long, 7500 and 1500 amp tandem arc with 1500 amp automatic scarfer
Two (2) Inside Long Seam Welders - 12' long, 750 amp
Inside Girth Seam Welder - With 40' boom, tandem arc, 1000 and 1500 amp
Two (2) Inside Girth Seam Welders - With 40' boom, 1000 amp
Three (3) Outside Girth and Long Seam Welder - 18' diameter x unlimited length, 1200 amp tandem arc
Outside Long Seam Welder - 16" diameter to 96" diameter x 8' long, 750 amp
Lewis Manipulator - With 750 amp welder
Welding Machines  
20 -
500/1500 amp AC
120 -
200/1500 amp DC
15 -
200/3000 amp automatic submerged arc
40 -
300/600 amp MIG and short arc
6 -
300 amp Heliarc
4 -
600 amp auto MIG with manipulator
Positioners (6) - 1 - to 10 - ton powered and manual
Turning Rolls -  
5 - Aronson - 200 ton  
4 - Aronson - 100 ton  
3 - Pandjiris - 60 ton  
2 - Aronson - 40 ton  
3 - Aronson - 5 to 20 ton  
   
Miscellaneous  
Drilling - Cincinnati Radial, 8' x 19" col.
   Carlton Radial, 8' x 19" col.
   Cincinnati No. 2 Tool & Cutter Grinder
   Oliver No. 600 Drill Pointer
   Various Portable Drilling Equipment
Machining - Blanchard Grinder - 36" capacity
   Vulcan - Rafamet Boring Mill 140" diameter x 120" high
   Le Blonde Engine Lathe 30" diameter x 60"
   Cincinnati Engine Lathe 15" diameter x 60"
   Bridgeport Turret Mill, 1 HP
   Ballard Boring Mill 32" capacity
Furnaces -Car Bottom - 20' wide x 20' high x 60' long, maximum temperature 2200°F, 24-point recorder
   Car Bottom - 13'4" wide x 6'6" high x 42'8" long, maximum temperature 2200°F, 16-point recorder
Sand Blasting - Manual, dual nozzle, dry unconfined abrasive blasting
Spray Painting - Manual electrostatic air spry gun
   
Welded Steel Pipe
Straight-seam Submerged-arc Welded Pipe Mill
Diameters - 72" ID through 144" ID
Wall thickness - ¼" through 1-¼"
Lengths - 40' standard, 80' (double-ended)
End Preparation - Flame Cut Square Ends
   Flame Cut Square Ends
   Belled Ends (for Lap Welded or Rubber Gasket Joints)
   
Equipment  
Plate Planer - Capacity - 1 -¼" plate x 10'0" wide x 40'0" long
"U"ing Press - 450 tons, maximum plate 10'0" wide x 40'0" long
Pipe Section Forming Press - 10,000 tons, maximum plate 10'0" wide x 40'0" long
Fit-up Machine - 72" - 144" diameter, 2 to 4 plates per pipe joint
Inside Seam Welder (2) - 40'0" boom, automatic submerged arc, 3000 amp
Outside Seam Welder (2) - 40'0" boom, automatic submerged arc, 3000 amp
Expander Tester - 72" - 144" diameter x 40'0" long
Belling Machines - Hydraulic - 72" - 144" diameter
   
Spiral-weld Pipe Mill (Submerged Arc)
Diameters - 24" OD through 79" OD
Wall Thickness - 3/16" through 3/4"
Lengths - up to 80' standard
End Preparation - Flame Cut Square Ends
   Flame Cut Beveled Ends
   Machine Beveled Ends
   Belled Ends (for Lap Welded or Rubber Gasket Joints)
   
Equipment
W. Byard & Co. Spiral Pipe Mill
Hydrotester - 24" - 79" diameter up to 80' 0" long
Belling Machine - Hydraulic - 24" - 71" diameter
   
Quality Control
Facilities - Quality Control Office
   Physical Test Laboratory
   Customer Inspector's Office
Equipment*
Real Time Radioscopic X-Ray System
    Comet 450 KV - up tp 3 ¼"
Gamma Radiography - Cobalt 60, 50 curies
   Cobalt 60, 30 curies
   Iridium 192, 100 curies
Machine Radiography - X-ray machine 300 KV, 5ma (2 machines)
   X-ray machine 160 KV, 5ma
Ultrasonic Instrument - Krautkramer Type USM-2 (2 machines)
   Kruatkramer Type USL-38
   Panametrics Thickness Gage
   Rompas - Eight Channel - UT Machine (For use on Spiral or Long Seam Pipe)
Magnetic Particle Installments - Magnaflux Model KH-15 (2 machines)
   Parker Prob "Yoke,"(2 machines)
Surveying Instrument - Auto Level - Path
   Transit - Brunsen with optical micrometer
Hardness Tester - Telebrineller - Portable
   PTC "C" Scale Portable
   PTC "B" Scale Portable
Physical Test Equipment - Load Indicator - Baldwin-Tate-Emery
   Universal, 200,000 lbs. with recorder and extension meters
   Compression Indicator - Baldwin, 300,000 lbs.
Specimen Preparation Equipment - Atlas ½" drill press
   Kearney & Traecker No. 2 CH horizontal mill
Inspection Measuring Devices - Tapes - Diameter Tapes, Pi Tapes, etc.
    Various Inspection Tools - Squares, Hand Levels, Micrometers, Paint Thickness
    Gauges, Surface Profile Tester and Pressure Gauges
Pressure Tasting Facilities - Compressors, pumps, gauges and recorders for pneumatic testing to 125 psi and hydrostatic testing to 10,000 psi
Reference Library  
For ASTM, AWS, API, ASME, specifications, etc.

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