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Main Plant
The Main Plant building, excluding the Hi-bay, consists of 87,500
ft² of manufacturing floor space. Each of four bays up to 380'
long is serviced by a rail spur and up to 40 tons of overhead crane
capacity. The fabrication processes typically performed within
include steel prep, structural fit & weld, and pressure part coil
fabrication.
The prep department utilizes typical steel fabrication equipment
for shearing, sawing, bending, rolling, and punching structural
shapes and plates. In addition, a highly productive CNC Plate Burning
Machine is used to plasma or gas torch cut plate up to 12' wide
X 42' long. The burn bed is serviced by 10 tons of overhead crane
capacity.
Hi-Bay
This building was originally added to the west side of the Main
Plant to facilitate the fabrication and assembly of packaged watertube
boilers. It features 50 tons of overhead crane capacity with a
32' hook height. Since package boiler assembly was subsequently
moved to the Final Assy building, the Hi-bay is typically used
for drum fabrication, header and drum tube-field drilling, and
ultra-heavy structural panel fabrication.
This bay houses a Carlton #5 Horizontal Boring Machine that is
primarily used to drill or machine tube fields in header pipes
or drums. It is also capable of machining tube fields in flat or
elliptical tubesheets, as well as a variety of other machining
operations.
Header Fab
Header Fab is 10,500 ft² of fabrication space dedicated to production
of coil pipe headers. Utilizing a CNC 5-axis plasma pipe profiling
machine, pipe is cut to length, beveled, and the branch connection
openings are cut and prepped to match the contour requirements
of mating nozzles. This machine also cuts to length and copes the
branch connection nozzles. A Carlton HBM #3 is used to drill tube
fields into the headers.
At the twelve (12) header/pipe welding stations end plates and
all nozzles and attachments are installed to complete fabrication.
The weld processes performed in Header Fab include GTAW, FCAW,
GMAW, SAW, and SMAW.
Final Assy
 The Final Assy building sets Chanute apart from all other peer
companies in its industry. Its feature asset is a 225-ton capacity
bridge crane with nearly a 36' hook height. This enables Chanute,
for instance, to easily fabricate and load HRSG coil
modules up to 450,000 lbs. to a rail car with minimal labor and
cost. It also facilitates easy handling of the largest of packaged
watertube and firetube boilers.
The building itself is nearly 40,000 ft² with a single bay clear
span of 79'-2" wide x 410' long. It is serviced by (4) rail spurs
to minimize shipping bottleknecks, and, in addition to the 225-ton
crane, has a 60-ton, a 10-ton, and (3) 5-ton bridge cranes.
To facilitate hydrostatic testing the building is plumbed for
recirculated hydrotest water that is typically treated with rust
preventative.
Administration
The Chanute administrative and support services pride themselves
on world class project execution and customer service. These services
include project management, production control/scheduling, detailing,
purchasing, personnel administration, material control, and Quality
Assurance.
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