Steel Structures

Steel is an incredible structural material, offering a wide range of technical and practical advantages over other materials. ESC has the capacity and expertise to fabricate a wide range of steel structures: from wharf structures, bridge structures, prefabricated steel buildings, heavy duty and tower structures.

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Fabrication Capabilities

Steel structures projects

ESC Steel Structures is one of the top provider of structural steel fabrications to projects around the world. At ESC Steel Structures, we are firm believers that to provide true value to our customers, we need to do more than just provide the lowest bid to our competitors. We take an active role in the industry, investing in developing long term customer relationships, whilst providing high quality, timely delivery of all our products. This is the foundation of our business. Our capabilities include:

Steel Bridge Structure
Bailey Bridge
Pre-engineered Steel Building / Prefab Steel Buildings
Offshore Steel Structures
Mining & Excavation
Heavy Steel Fabrication
Pressure Vessel
Steel Towers
Rail Infrastructure
Material Handling Structures

ESC supplies steel columns, purlins, frames, trestles, beams, trusses, conveyor gantries, mineral processing plants, crusher and screening structures, bridges, walkways, ROM bins, stairs, platforms, handrails, guards, grating, conveyor supports, frames, towers, pipe racks and mechanical support steel.

Fabrication Capabilities

Machining, Cutting & Drilling

ESC is capable of machining high quality components of different sizes, materials and specifications. Cutting, bevelling and drilling can also be automated with supreme precision. Utilising state of the art CNC machinery and skilled operators ESC offers:

High Precision CNC lathes turning of pieces up to 2.5 metres length
Flame, Laser & Plasma Cutting of plates up to 150mm thickness
Precision drilling, milling and boring
Plate Shearing machines (up to 6 metre width and 10mm thickness)
Automated edge bevelling for weld preparations

Welding

Welds are one of the most important features of a steel structure and expert skill, knowledge and experience goes a long way in ensuring structural integrity:

Welding of various materials and special steel grades
AWS qualified weld inspectors
International Standards & Welding Codes: AWS, ASME, API, AS/NZS, CSA, BS, ISO, CEN
Manual, Semi-auto, automated welding
All welding technologies: SAW, MIG/MAG, TIG, FCAW, SMAW, GTAW, MCAW, GMAW
Access to hundreds of qualified and skilled welders
State of the art non destructive testing (NDT) and destructive testing

Pipe Production

ESC offers a wide range of pipe manufacturing capabilities for use in steel structures:

Double Submerged Arc Welded Pipe (DSAW - UOE method, JCOE method), Spiral Welded, seamless and more
ASTM, CSA, API, BS EN, ISO standards
Diameters can range from 1 inch (25.4mm) all the way up to 14 feet (4267mm)
Thicknesses - between 2.10mm to 4 in (100mm)
Lengths - all up to 100 metres length for large diameter pipes
Various Steel Grades from S355JOH to X60 for example
In-house hydrostatic pressure testing facilities

Press Brake Forming

Utilising a press brake capability which features some of the largest press brakes in the world, ESC can offer a wide range of high quality formed steel components:

Lengths - up to 60' (4 metres)
Up to 20,000mT bending force
Thicknesses up to 1" (25.4mm)
Large range of press brake tooling
Large throat area for a wide range of forming dimensions
Semi-automated material handling for efficient and safe forming

Blasting, Coating & Galvanizing

A good quality coating system, whether it be by a protective paint or sacrificial zinc galvanization is important to the aesthetics and durability of a steel structure. ESC offers a wide range of coating system options are available to suit many projects and applications. Another aspect frequently overlooked is the packing system and handling supervision that ESC offers to ensure that your asset arrives to your site with minimal or no coating damage.

A combination of manual and semi-auto application methods for consistent thickness and ability for application in hard-to-access places
Blasting to various surface standards
Various coating options - colours, types
Careful humidity and temperature control
ESC's certified SPCC coating inspectors supervising through the entire preparation and coating process with complete coating reports.

Testing

Testing at all stages of fabrication is critical in a quality assurance process. All items fabricated by ESC Steel Structures follow a strict Inspection & Test Plan with various hold points to check the components for strength, defects and other important items. ESC offers a full suite and expertise of steel structure testing:

High precision, routinely calibrated and certified dimensional measurement equipment
ISO, OHSAS, EN 1090, ISO 3834 and other company certifications
In-house and external material testing facilities: tensile, impact, chemical, ultrasonic
UT, MT, RT, PT, VT testing for welds (at different percentages depending on application and project requirements). Also special methods such as
AWS, NDT, Coating Certification of ESC QA/QC Inspectors
Close relationships with reputable third party inspectors
Assembly Load Testing, Pressure Testing facilities
Coating Inspection - thickness, defects, adherence

Engineering

ESC's project engineers are from a wide range of backgrounds, including aerospace, mechanical, civil, offshore oil & gas, nuclear, renewables and more. ESC offers clients a dedicated project engineer for every order, who is the focal point for communication and technical queries. This make project management more seamless and hassle-free to the client. We understand the need to interact closely with contractors, design consultants, owners and other project stakeholders.

ESC's engineering support capabilities include: