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.

We’d love to get to know you at IMTS 2014

We’ll be headed to the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in just a few days and we’re looking forward to a great conference.

This year’s show runs September 8-13 in Chicago.  According to the folks at IMTS there will be over 2,000 vendors at the show and more than 100,000 people coming from over 100 countries.

We do trade shows like these for lots of reasons.  Like all the vendors we know there will be many decision makers either making, or preparing to make, purchase decisions for next year. With American manufacturing expanding like it is, many buyers from machining mills, plastic injection molding and metal stamping will be adding new machines.  Which of course means they will need new machine foundations design. That is certainly a good enough reason for us to be at the biggest manufacturing show in the U.S.

But, another, maybe even more important reason, is that we actually like to meet face-to-face with our customers and find out who they are and their exact construction problems and needs.  As a family-owned company we know that no matter how big the company we serve, our real customers are the people in that company. 

IMTS is one way to strengthen our ability to really get to know and serve you. Over the last three decades we’ve established a reputation for construction innovation and really helping you solve all your construction problems with as a consolidated construction source. 

We’ve always expanded our construction capabilities as a direct result of what we hear from you. We want to be your first source for all your construction needs. Our in-house Design-Build engineers have decades of experience. A few years ago we added The Steel Shop so we’d have full service steel fabrication and steel construction arm. 

Besides machine foundations designing and building, we develop entire projects from blueprint to full, on-time completion. We do everything from parking lots to million-square foot manufacturing plants and almost anything in between.

Whatever your expansion and construction plans for this year and 2015 come by and see how we could meet your needs. If we’ve done work for you or your company and you’re happy with the job we did, come by and let us know that too.  It’s things like that that make it all worthwhile.

We look forward to you or some of your people meeting some of our great people at booth N-7097 in the Fabricating/Laser/Additive Pavilion in the North Building.  See you at IMTS 2014.