Equipment Installation by Type

A machining center is only as accurate as the floor it sits on and the care it was set with. AK crews receive and offload the machine, rig it into position, often through doors and aisles with inches to spare on skates and jacking systems, and set it to the layout. We level to the manufacturer's specification on the leveling elements the OEM provides, protect ways, spindles and slides throughout, install chip conveyors, coolant and hydraulic auxiliaries, and coordinate power, air and network tie-ins with the responsible trades. When the OEM's technician arrives for laser calibration and geometry verification, the machine is level, anchored where specified and ready. For machine tools coming from another plant, see machinery disassembly and reassembly.

Presses are engineered lifts, not equipment moves. Crown, slide, bed and bolster are rigged individually under a critical-lift plan, often into a press pit or onto a foundation with anchor bolts we set and verify. Our millwrights assemble and level the press, align the slide, install hydraulic and lubrication systems, set die-handling equipment and guarding, and support the OEM through stroke and tonnage checks. Hydraulic press installation, stamping press installation and industrial press relocation are core work for AK, with the heaviest press components handled on hydraulic gantries.

Conveyor installation is a line-datum problem: elevations, centerlines and transfers have to land where the layout says, section after section, or the controls integrator inherits the error. AK crews assemble sectioned conveyors and supports, set them to the line datum, level and align drives, sprockets and belts, install guarding and platforms, and coordinate with the automation integrator and electrical contractor so motors, sensors and drives are ready for commissioning. Overhead, floor and inclined systems, pallet and case handling, and the integration of conveyors with the machines they feed.

Packaging lines are installed in line flow, machine by machine, with the transfers between them leveled and aligned so product runs without a hand-off problem at every gap. AK crews set fillers, cappers, labelers, case packers, palletizers and the handling between them, coordinate compressed air, power and, where required, sanitary utilities with the responsible trades, and support the line integrator through dry runs and rate testing. We work in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, consumer-product and packaging plants and follow the hygiene and access rules of each.

Clamp unit, injection unit and base are set, leveled and aligned to the OEM's specification; mold-handling equipment, chillers, dryers, conveyors and robots are positioned and connected; hydraulic, electric and hybrid machines are handled with their specific piping and power requirements. AK coordinates water, air and power tie-ins with your trades and supports the first molds with the OEM or your process team.

Pumps, compressors, tanks, vessels, heat exchangers, mixers and pre-assembled process skids are set to foundations and pads, leveled and anchored, and, where a pump or compressor has a driver, laser-aligned to the manufacturer's tolerance. We place mechanical and electrical skids and coordinate the piping, electrical and instrumentation interconnections with the other trades and the EPC. Chemical, food, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper and industrial process facilities, including installations inside operating units under shutdown conditions.

AK Industrial provides receiving, offloading, rigging, setting, assembly, alignment and anchoring for industrial furnaces, ovens, rolling mills and heavy processing lines. Our crews install furnace sections, mill stands, roll assemblies, cooling beds, runout tables, coilers, uncoilers and supporting mechanical equipment for new installations, relocations and facility upgrades.

AK Industrial Contractors provides rigging, millwright, and precision installation support for foundry and metal-casting equipment from individual machines to integrated casting lines and supporting systems. Depending on the awarded scope, our crews support receiving and offloading, staging, mechanical assembly, precision setting, leveling, alignment, anchoring, and startup and commissioning support.

AK Industrial is a pipe mill installation contractor and pipe mill relocation contractor for pipe and tube manufacturers in the United States and Mexico: complete mill relocations, greenfield and brownfield expansions, and the installation of new mill equipment from the forming press to the coating line, self-performed from offloading through mechanical assembly.

We have completed installation, relocation, expansion, rigging and millwright projects for Maverick Tube, Boomerang Tube, Welspun Tubular, Tenaris, Liberty Steel, Sumitomo, Bull Moose Tube, IPSCO Tubular and Indiana Tube. For Welspun alone that spans three projects: turnkey installation support for the 20-inch HFW pipe mill, turnkey installation support for the 36-inch spiral pipe mill, and the Little Rock LSAW pipe mill and coating facility expansion, where AK is currently the lead rigging and millwright contractor, installing the heavy JCO forming press and the plate-handling, welding, inspection, finishing, coating and material-handling equipment around it. Several generations of one manufacturer's growth, not one installation.

AK Industrial is an aluminum extrusion press installation contractor and aluminum extrusion plant expansion contractor for extruders in the United States and Mexico: complete aluminum extrusion line installation, extrusion press relocation, and greenfield and brownfield plant expansions, self-performed from the press to the age oven.

We have installed and supported press lines built by UBE Machinery, Presezzi Extrusion, SMS group, GRANCO CLARK, Belco Industries and Cometal Engineering, working directly for those OEMs as well as for the extruders who run their equipment, including UBE extrusion press installation and the disassembly and relocation of a large UBE extrusion press in Ohio for Hydro. Extrusion customers include APEL Extrusions, where AK installed the aluminum extrusion presses and the associated process and handling equipment for the Phoenix, Arizona greenfield expansion and headquarters relocation; Kawneer, aluminum extrusion equipment installation, relocation and expansion support; Hydro Aluminum, extrusion-press and production-equipment installation and relocation support; and Hydro Precision Tubing, production-line and equipment installation and relocation support.

Energy equipment is installed in environments where protecting the existing infrastructure comes first. Generator rigging and installation, transformer rigging and installation, switchgear and substation setting, UPS and PDU equipment installation, and BESS and PCS installation onto pads, piers and skids, with the mechanical and electrical interconnections completed by the licensed trades and coordinated with the owner, EPC and OEM, under the site-specific safety, access and lockout or tagout discipline that data centers and power facilities require. Data center cooling equipment installation, from chillers and CRAH and CRAC units to CDUs and rear-door heat exchangers, runs to the same method. Full detail on our mission-critical work is on the data centers page.

Robots, positioners, welding cells, automated assembly and inspection equipment are set to the cell layout, leveled and anchored, fenced and guarded, and aligned so the integrator's programs run without correction. AK coordinates with the automation integrator on sequence, positions the material handling that feeds the cell, and coordinates power, air and network tie-ins with the responsible trades. Automated production equipment installation is usually part of a larger line installation, planned and sequenced with the rest of the scope.