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What you can buy
Hot-rolled
High-strength steel
- Plate
- Laser & plasma-cut parts
Sizes
- Plate inventory
- ASTM A36 to 8"; A572 Grade 42, 50 and 60; A514 to 4" (to 8" available); 1045 to 3" (to 8" available); 4140 to over 4" (to 12" available); 1018, 1020 and hot-roll plate; A516 Grade 70N to 12" on special order; AR400 and bar stock. Indoor plate storage of 30,000 sq ft; MTRs, domestic and DFARS material available
- Plate cutting
- CNC oxy-fuel and plasma on 10 ft x 40 ft tables; plasma to 2" thick with true-hole technology, flame cutting to 10" thick; regularly burns plate to 8" and supplies up to 22" thick
- Plate sawing
- Plate saws to 26" wide x 161" long x 12" high and 48" wide x 33" high; band saws to 26" x 16"
- Stress relieving and annealing
- Computer-controlled car-bottom oven, 1,000,000 BTU, 8 ft x 8 ft x 14 ft, 40,000 lb capacity
- Blanchard and surface grinding
- Vertical spindle grinding to 48" wide x 200" long (415 HP); rotary grinding to 128" diameter; horizontal spindle surface grinding to 37" x 198"
- CNC machining
- Bridge and vertical mills to 167" X x 109" Y travel; horizontal boring mills to 83" x 134"; CNC lathe with 18.1" swing x 110" length
- Straightening
- 250-ton vertical ram straightening press, 60" x 200" bed
- Fabrication and finishing
- 15,000 sq ft fabrication shop with certified welders for weldments, machine bases and assemblies; media blasting and painting
- Inspection
- 3,000 sq ft inspection department independent from the shop, with a Hexagon 7-axis portable CMM arm
- Custom parts
- Base, bolster, mold, sole, wear, mounting, gusset and bridge plates; machine tables, parallels and riser blocks, robot bases, jigs and fixtures, press parts and side frames
About PGI Steel
Precision Grinding (PGI) Overview
PGI Steel, the trade name of Precision Grinding, Inc., is a custom steel plate processor in the Birmingham, Alabama area, established in 1971. From two plants of nearly 150,000 sq ft in Birmingham and Bessemer it stocks carbon, alloy and abrasion-resistant plate and turns it into finished parts by oxy-fuel and plasma cutting, sawing, stress relieving, Blanchard and surface grinding, CNC machining and fabrication. It serves machine builders, machine shops, tool and die shops, construction and defense work.
- Processing
- Plasma cutting, Sawing, Warehousing
- Industries served
- Machine building, Machine shops, Tool and die, Construction, Government and military
- Certifications
- ISO 9001:2015, ITAR registered
- Ownership
- Privately owned
Locations
Birmingham, AL
Headquarters
Bessemer, AL
Kilsby Plant, acquired 2012; plate inventory, plate cutting, grinding, fabrication, blasting and painting
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