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Coating
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Metal Division
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Industrial
Division
Full line of multi-trade craftsmen including plumbers, welders
and millwrights available to handle all plant maintenance,
shut downs, and additions. R,
S, and U
stamp certified by the ASME.
Alpolic Shop
Those
steel and concrete surfaces usually aren't the most colorful.
Thanks to a new composite material -- Alpolic -- Bay Mechanical's
industrial division is adding more color to its construction
projects, including the new terminal at the Norfolk International
Airport.
"The new terminal will be a very pretty place. Alpolic
is a creative, colorful way to cover structural members, such
as horizontal beams and vertical columns," Minton says.
"It's quite elaborate -- a heavy coating of enamel surrounds
the aluminum that wraps around columns, beams and canopies.
And alpolic stands up to the elements when used outside."
As with much of Bay Mechanical's work, the company began working
with the material by accident, Minton says. "We were
working as a sub for another company and they asked if we
could do it."
Marine Division
Yet another focus of the industrial division is its marine
work. "Ventilation on large carriers and tankers is our
specialty," York says. "It's an arena where we have
proficiency."
Bay Mechanical fabricated watertight ventilation on the recently
christened U.S.S. Ronald Regan. "The ductwork for these
systems is made from very large steel plates," York says.
Some are 19-foot-by-6-foot pieces -- larger than for any other
surface vessel.
"While the U.S.S. Nimitz, Enterprise and Harry S Truman
were being refitted for nuclear fuel, we overhauled their
ventilation systems. The sea's salt air had rusted away the
old ducts."
Although most of Bay Mechanical's marine work is for Newport
News Shipyard, "other shipyards -- Tecnico, Aepco and
Collonas -- come to us for items that have a high degree of
difficulty," York says. As with the alpolic work, Bay
Mechanical's work for the shipyards was serendipitous.
York had been the shop foreman for another mechanical contractor
that worked with Newport News Shipyard.
"When the company went bankrupt, I found myself without
a job," York says. Because of Bay Mechanical's reputation,
York approached its president. "Only one other company
in the area was capable of building the ventilation systems,
and somebody had to do it. And I had a two-year history with
the shipyard."
The opportunity came when Bay Mechanical first entered the
industrial environment, and the marriage between York, the
shipyard and Bay Mechanical proved to be a good one.
"The remarkable things is that Rod decided to take a
gamble on something he wasn't familiar with. He said, 'OK,
let's try it out. Let's see if it works.' He said that without
knowing me or the product."
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The company fabricated
and assembled this full size airplane used for fire
training at Norfolk Airport. |
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