Got Questions About Press Pit & Foundation Construction? We’ll Have Answers at FabTech 2014 Technology Session.

Bending, forming, stamping, welding, fabricating, and finishing metal takes powerful equipment, hardworking people, and cutting-edge companies.

Delta Industrial is proud to join almost 30,000 of those people alongside 1400 companies at #FabTechexpo 2014, November 11th-13th at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.

In just a few days we’ll be rubbing shoulders with metal stamping, fabricating and welding experts from all over the world. 

This year we’re especially excited to be part of the technology education sessions that are part of the conference. We’ll be presenting to metal stamping professionals in a 2-hour session on Tuesday, Nov. 11th.

Our presentation, called Proper Press Pit and Foundation Construction, will be part of the Intermediate Stamping Track. You can register online for the session, which will take place in room B210.

We’ll be drawing from decades of experience to show you all the factors that must be considered for a perfectly installed foundation that properly supports your press and stamping operations for years to come. 

Properly built press pits and machine foundations have to include site-specific conditions, specific construction processes, machine type, even the surrounding water table, and soil makeup need to be taken into consideration.

Making sure everyone from Operations to Finance & Purchasing understand everything about a new press pit installation saves metal formers and stampers time, money, and makes the whole RFP process much more reliable and effective. If that’s part of your job you won’t want to miss our session.

We hope to see you at #FABTECHexpo November 11th thru 13th at our booth #B-1407, at the Proper Press Pit and Construction session on Tuesday on B210, or both.

We’ve Got Skills - Steel Fabrication & Machine Foundation Skills Delta Industrial & The Steel Shop showing off at FABTECH 2014

We’ll be off to Atlanta, Georgia on November 11^th through the 13^th for FABTECH 2014.  As most of you know, since 2001 we’ve had a separate, full-service steel fabrication and steel construction division called The Steel Shop. FABTECH is the perfect place to showcase the major part they play in our complete construction capabilities with more than 6 decades of combined experience with all aspects of steel building.

What is FABTECH 2014?

 

FABTECH is one of the world’s biggest industry events for metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing.  They are expecting almost 30,000 attendees and over 1400 exhibitors. 

The show will allow visitors to experience live equipment demonstrations, discover cost savings solutions and network with industry peers. The show floor will go throughout the 500,000+ Georgia World Congress Center. The event also provides learning opportunities for attendees with over 100 educational sessions and expert-led presentations on the latest industry trends and technology in the metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing industries.

Visit our Machine Foundation and Steel Fab Experts At Booth #B1407

 

Trade events like these give us the opportunity to meet our customers face to face and introduce them to who we are and what we can do.

We’d love the chance to meet you, answer questions and share our completed projects. As a full-service contractor we’ve done everything from a single machine foundation all the way to million square foot top to bottom construction. We’ll be at Booth #B1407 throughout the show.

Whether you need re-steel, Bolt Canisters, Bolt Frames, Mechanical Trenches Chutes, Plating or full building fabrication, The Steel Shop and Delta Industrial team will be on hand at booth # B 1407 to answer questions and show you our complete construction capabilities. 

About Us

 

Delta Industrial is the Midwest’s recognized leader in machine foundations, press pits and industrial concrete construction. We’re a family-owned and operated company in business since 1993. Our offices are located in Chesterfield Michigan, Trussville Alabama, and Fort Thomas Kentucky. We do all design-build facets of machine and press pits, concrete flat work, and steel fabrication. We are dedicated to getting each job done - On Time and In Budget.

How Do You Build a Solid Machine Foundation on the Edge of a Volcano?

Employing a unique construction process, Delta Industrial took on Mother Nature...and won.

We designed and built a foundation for a Linx machining center for A & G Machine Incorporated, a supplier of sophisticated high tech parts to the aviation industry.

Located in Auburn, Washington, the plant where we were tasked to build the foundation was located in an old riverbed, near potential volcanic activity.   Undaunted, our skilled engineers designed a substructure that could withstand a natural disaster and prevent any shifting of the machinery.

Another wrinkle we had to overcome was the machinery on top of our machine foundation produces precision parts with extremely tight tolerances — as small as ten thousandths of an inch. So, the machine’s foundation needed to be 100% solid and ultra-stable to maintain the necessary integrity.

Meeting the Challenge for an Ultra-Stable Machine Foundation

To do this right our team had to strategically reinforce the base with helical pilings. Instead of pouring the concrete in multiple stages, we used an innovative monolithic pour to construct the five-foot thick reinforced concrete that made up the machine’s foundation.

Increased Construction Efficiencies = Happy Customer & Leads to More Construction Projects

By doing this we were able to enhance the construction efficiencies and increase the structural strength of the base. This project, with conveyor system, was completed in only 14 weeks.

The telltale sign that A & G Machine and Linx were happy with the results were the additional projects they then asked us to do. Linx also listed Delta as a preferred supplier of foundations for their machining centers.

About Us

We’re proud to be recognized as the Midwest’s leader in machine foundations, press pits and industrial concrete construction. We do complete construction across the U.S. from three offices - our headquarters in Chesterfield, Michigan; Trussville Alabama; and Fort Thomas Kentucky. We’re a family-owned complete construction company with our own steel fabrication shop founded in 1993, specializing in machine and press foundations, concrete flat work and steel fabrication. Our goal is an aesthetic and complete work product – On Time and On Budget.

Another Complete Construction Job By Our Machine Foundations Design-Build Team - on Time & in Budget

Many of you know us as press pit and machine foundation design experts. After more than 30 years building pits and designing machine foundations for Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers like metal stamping and machining mills we’d like to think we’ve learned a thing or two as well.

But as we’ve grown and expanded our focus has become meeting all of your industrial construction needs – from the first blue print all the way to a completed and aesthetic construction project.

A while back we had the pleasure of expanding outside of our regular automotive clientele – well sort of.

The job was to construct a 220,000+ square foot manufacturing plant for Titan Tire, a subsidiary of Titan International, Inc. The new plant was needed to produce a super-giant 63-inch steel belted radial tire for use on agricultural, earth moving, and construction vehicles. Testing performed by Titan on the new tire indicated that tire life could be extended by 20 to 30 percent over conventional tires.

After our machine foundation design team had finished the design, our build team got to work on the massive construction project by installing concrete building column footings and the exterior wall-column base plates.

Then the crew got started on the critical second phase of the operation by designing, building and placing more than 30 different foundations for the new plant. The various foundations ranged in depth from a shallow 12-inches all the way to 30-foot excavations.  The different foundations were needed to accommodate a diverse variety of heavy and complex equipment used in Titan’s manufacturing processes. 

With Tom Lytle as Project Manager the job was completed on time and in budget.  It was a unique opportunity for us to really showcase our breadth of designing and building capabilities outside of our typical zone we’ve gained a reputation for.

Whether flatwork, machine foundations, steel construction, or complete construction jobs like we did for Titan, our goal is always to create an aesthetic and complete work product that stays within your budget and timeline.  With our three locations, here in Michigan and Kentucky and Alabama we can literally do any job from the northern Midwest to the Gulf Coast.