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Plasma Cutting
The intricate work would eat up too much time if cut via oxyfuel, so PAC gets the call.
Plasma-cutting speed is huge at Loveman, where the company will receive emergency calls from mill customers at any hour to fabricate one- offs to replace broken process-equipment pieces.
Specialist in Emergency Work
“A steel mill with a busted ladle part is not pro- ducing steel and must be back online quickly,” explains Loveman. “With our workers and the equipment inhouse, we can turn around these orders, so customers keep coming back to us.”
Indeed, the list of Loveman’s recent and
repeat customers reads like a Who’s Who. With-
in the past five years, the company has com-
pleted projects for U.S. Steel, Severstal N.A.,
AK Steel, Sun Coke, Allegheny Technologies, Nucor, Metso Minerals, Mitsubishi-Hitachi, North American Stainless and Arcelor Mittal.
Beyond its clients in the material-producing and finish- ing industries, Loveman serves the power-generation, mate- rial-handling, petrochemical, aerospace and transportation industries. All of these industries employ unique pieces of equipment that operate under the harshest conditions, and it’s only a matter of time before a breakdown occurs.
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Loveman Steel will receive emergency calls from mill customers at any hour to fabricate one-offs to replace broken process-equipment pieces, large and small.
Loveman has demonstrated to these customers that it can handle whatever may come its way, and deliver as promised. Sometimes that requires extra elbow grease, especially on larg- er parts. One recent project, recalls Loveman, necessitated fab- ricating a large 100-ft.-dia. assembly in 24 pieces, trial-assem- bling and truing it outdoors to ensure proper fitup, and disassembly into 24 pieces for delivery by truck to the customer.
But that’s all in a day’s work at Loveman Steel, where unique solutions are married to unique challenges. MF