Stainless Steel Pipework Fabrication in Melbourne
Blog | July 27th, 2018It’s difficult to miss a stainless steel pipe in Melbourne. They’re literally everywhere, transporting the city’s lifeblood. Gas or petrol, caustic chemical or filthy wastewater, the alloy-toughened tubes carry out their duties best when they’re formed by pipework fabrication professionals. Considering the many fluid loads coursing in an around the city, only a high-productivity, higher-quality fabrication service will suffice.
Forming Food Industry Pipework
Outside, a trench has just been dug for a new gas line. Stainless steel pipework is piled up at the edge of the worksite. Most of the sections are straights, but there are a few bends, plus an onsite cutting station. On pulling away from that viewpoint, we’re back in the food sector. The factory floor is being renovated, and there’s production equipment everywhere. Missing for the moment, there’s not a single linking piece of pipework in site. The various elements of the system are being cut and bent, just like the service we saw taking place at the edge of the trench.
Targeting the Linkage Endpoints
Top-notch food industry equipment is lined up against walls. There are stainless steel trolleys and even a shiny metal conveyor belt connecting the production line. It’s perhaps a new Melbourne food processing plant, a factory that’s almost halfway finished now. Again, there’s no pipework. There’s no plumbing, no water lines, no wastewater connections, and there’s definitely no sign of a beverage or fluid food delivery system. Enter the fabrication team, a service that’s currently installing several different pipework systems. They cut the tubes to length. Then, knowing the metal conduits are intended to convey food-based fluids, they diligently deburr and clean the rims of each section cut.
Installing the Pipework
The next step is to incorporate a series of precisely bent radial turns into each line. The straights are easy enough to mount, of course, but those bends need to be assigned specific twists and turns. Otherwise, the foodstuff will create choke points as their routes change direction, from one factory wall to the next. Cut and bent, gland-terminated and welded, the durable tubing segments must all conform to the equipment configuration on the floor, plus the layout of the structure.
Challenges abound when a Melbourne-based light fabrication service undertakes a new equipment manufacturing project. There are custom-made trolleys and tables to build. Splashbacks and frame sections overlay that equipment lineup. At least as important as any of this hygiene-centric gear, pipework fabrication is a specialized service. It takes techs high and low, under floors and above cooking stations. The equipment is all precisely positioned, so the bent and cut pipes are expected to hit their termination points when they drop from a ceiling or rise from a floor trap.
Stecor Engineering & Fabrication
1/13 Crawford St, Braeside VIC 3195
Mobile: 0419 562 284
Phone: (03) 9028 4130
Fax: (03) 8669 4400
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