Metals
Graycor is the leading self-performing contractor serving the steel industry. We provide our clients maximum efficiency, dedicated cost control and the ability to meet aggressive timelines without sacrificing safety.
Our management teams provide
full-service capabilities along with exceptionally skilled
craftspeople to perform your most challenging and critical
assignments. And in outage situations, we plan every activity to
the minute, coordinate our teams tightly and deliver regular
updates for around-the-clock project management that ensures
minimal downtime every time. What's more, we back the work we do
for key clients with on-site maintenance services of the absolute
highest caliber.
For more information about metals construction, contact project
director, Ted Vrehas.
Projects
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Graycor Industrial Constructors recently completed work on United States Steel Corporation's C Battery at the company's Clairton Plant, the nation's largest coke making facility with an annual production rate of 4.5 million tons.
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Graycor Industrial completed a fast-track rebuild of Blast Furnace "C" at Severstal′s Dearborn, Michigan, plant. This complex design-build challenge required six months of preplanning to develop a unique and innovative approach to complete the construction phase within the scheduled 100-day outage.
The project also included construction and installation of a casthouse weighing approximately 1…
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Graycor Industrial installed mechanical components for ArcelorMittal's new 504 boiler, which burns excess blast furnace gas and generating steam for an existing steam turbine generator. Installation included an economizer, air heater and support steel, air, gas and flue gas recirculation ductwork, and installation of 315-foot-tall stack. Installation also included ASME and ANSI B31.1 p…
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Longtime Graycor client ArcelorMittal, the world's largest global steel company, called on Graycor International of Canada to dismantle a blast furnace baghouse at their plant in Weirton, West Virginia, and then transport and reinstall the baghouse at their plant in Hamilton, Ontario. The project was a joint effort between Graycor International, Graycor Industrial and J.S. Alberic…
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This modernization project involved full-scope, heavy-duty process work, including: demolition and replacement of foundations and entry/exit terminal equipment (including accumulators), removal and replacement of existing strip furnace refractory, and all associated piping and electrical work. Large piping components were prefabricated prior to installation, and a majority of the structural stee…
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This project was performed for Mountain State Carbon, a joint venture between Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel and Severstal, NA. Graycor Industrial′s scope of work for the project included complete through-wall repairs for 39 oven walls and end-flue repairs for the remaining walls. Structural and collecting-main upgrades, installation of gas collection piping, and replacement of coke side and pusher s…
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The first phase of this multi-phased project included furnishing and installing a new pipe bridge from the baghouse to the basic oxygen furnace building. Then our team installed a fume collection system, including the baghouse, dust silo, duct and roof canopy. Graycor crews were also responsible for the baghouse′s piling and foundations, in addition to structural, electrical, piping, siding, lea…
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Overall, this project for Ispat Inland (now ArcelorMittal) called for implementing a bottom tap and demolishing the furnace base and lining. It also required installing a new hearth bottom and walls, tuyere, bosh refractory and staves in the bosh and stack. In addition, we removed and replaced the lip ring, and demolished and installed the stove dome, hot blast main, bustle pipe lining and stove…
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Graycor has provided construction services to ArcelorMittal (ISG at the time of the project) since 1982. More recently, we completed repairs designed to improve the quality of air emitted from the steel producer′s Indiana Harbor Works BOF (Basic Oxygen Furnace).
The project called for replacing chamber Nos. 3 and 4 collection plates and discharge electrodes on the BOF precipitator as well as …
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Beta Steel Corp. called upon Graycor Industrial Constructors to handle multiple system upgrades at their Portage, IN, plant. Graycor performed coiler-handling system improvements, including the installation of a new downcoiler, two new walking beams, an inspection station and a pre-engineered metal building. In addition, the project entailed sheet piling, foundation demolition, new foundation in…
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Long-time client and industry leader ArcelorMittal tapped Graycor Industrial to complete this emergency project at their steelmaking facility in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, north of Ixtapa. The Graycor team completed the project in two months, including drilling the salamander, and removing and installing the furnace refractory from the bottom through the bosh.
In addition, the team replaced nea…
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A year-long installation at the Burns Harbor plant was performed at the No. 1 Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF). Graycor's work included erecting a baghouse and installing all associated ductwork and support steel, reinforcing the existing building, and relocating existing piping and electrical interferences.
The project required two 1,000-ton cranes to move extremely large ducts and install them in…
