Metal Fabrication
Massive Scale Custom Steel Fabrication
With 180 acres of heavy manufacturing floor space and 55 overhead cranes, Openex has the physical infrastructure to assemble some of the largest fabricated components in the world. Our metal fabrication department offers completely turnkey solutions—processing raw plates and massive structural shapes into finished, stress-relieved, and precision-machined heavy modules.
Heavy Plate Fabrication
Working with massive thicknesses is our specialty. We regularly process heavy-gauge carbon steel, high-yield alloy plates, and massive pressure vessel plates. Using extreme-tonnage press brakes, cold rollers, and Submerged Arc Welding (SAW), we forge these massive flat plates into cylindrical shells, conical reducers, and gigantic tubular structures.
- ✔ Processing capability up to 150mm+ plate thicknesses.
- ✔ Custom deep penetration multi-pass welding.
- ✔ Applications: Tube sheets, rotary kilns, dump body floors.
Structural Steel Fabrication
We fabricate fully-certified massive structural frameworks utilized in bridges, high-rise infrastructures, offshore jack-up rig topsides, and sprawling heavy equipment bases. Governed strictly by AWS D1.1 and CE EN-1090 EXC4, every heavy beam and structural I-joist is welded to endure extraordinary dynamic loads.
- ✔ Extreme payload frameworks for machinery bases.
- ✔ Bridge columns and large construction beam welding.
- ✔ In-house planer-milling to achieve massive surface flatness.
Custom Metal Fabrication
For Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and proprietary engineering groups, we act as a secure, contract manufacturing wing. From highly complex stainless steel energy storage vacuum chambers to custom-engineered bulk materials handling units, we tool up dynamically to build bespoke blueprints.
- ✔ Proprietary IP Protection & confidentiality.
- ✔ Multi-process integration: Machining, Weld, Assemble & Paint.
- ✔ Highly exotic material handling (Titanium, Super Duplex, Inconel).
Fabrication Shop Capacities
Procurement decisions hinge on risk and capability limits. Our expansive workshops house 55 independent crane arrays alongside some of the world's most powerful heavy processing equipment to safely manage giant sub-assemblies.
Material Grading Supported
| Metal Category | Primary Industry Usage |
|---|---|
| High Yield Carbon Steels (A36, Q345, S355) | Construction, General structural base framing. |
| Wear Resistant (Hardox, AR400, AR500) | Mining Buckets, Haul truck Dump Bodies. |
| Stainless & Duplex (316L, 2205) | Marine and severe corrosive fluid pressures. |
| Alloy & Tool Steels (Inconel, P20) | Refinery furnaces, extremely durable tooling matrices. |
Seamless Factory Integrations
1. Precision Cutting
Oxy, Laser & Plasma profiling directly from sheet storage.
2. Forming & Beveling
CNC Cold Plate Rolling and massive Press-Brake operations.
3. SAW Heavy Welding
ASME certified arc welding procedures, automated with robotic heads.
4. Thermal Relieving
Vast car-bottom furnaces to temper the severe stresses from fabrication.
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