Installing temporary stiff leg on top drum of "A" type boiler.
Boiler Repair
For 105 years, we've been providing boiler repair and maintenance services. As you know, your boiler is the heart of your facility and requires experienced, highly skilled technicians to handle any work. If you want it done right, with maximum safety levels by people who know what they're doing, then you want Schwartz on the job. We'll take care of:
- Boiler re-tubing and welding
- Heat exchange and condenser re-tubing
- Stack and breeching work
- Hydro-static testing
- Waterleg repairs
- ASME code piping alterations
- Cast-iron section replacement
- Ultrasonic thickness testing
- Coil repairs
- Pipe fitting
- Condensate and storage tanks
- Breeching and stacks
- Refractory repairs
- Riveted repairs
- Tube cleaning and turbining
- Non-destructive testing services
- Prepare boilers for internal inspection
- National Board "R" Stamp Authority welding
Installing superheater tubes and refractory on high pressure Foster Wheeler boiler.
To ensure your work is done as efficiently as possible, Schwartz also keeps a large parts inventory including: hand hole plates and gaskets, man hole plates and gaskets, boiler tubes, copper and steel ferrules, safety valves, and much more. If by chance we don't have it in stock, we know where to get it as quickly as possible.
Commercial & Military Ship Repair
Complete re-tube of steamship Alpena.
Schwartz can help you with almost every facet of your ship repair and maintenance. We've been working on the big boats for 80 years including: US Coast Guard Cutters Mackinaw, Biscayne Bay, Katami Bay, Buckthorn, Neah Bay, and Acacia ◊ Great Lakes Fleet—US Steel ◊ Interlake Steamship ◊ Lake Michigan Car Ferry ◊ Inland Lakes Management—Lafarge Cement ◊ Hannah Marine ◊ Durocher Marine ◊ Ryba Marine ◊ Lower Lakes Transportation ◊ And ferry fleets including Shepler's Mackinac Island Ferry, Starline Ferry Service, and Arnold Line Ferry. Keep your ship in top repair and reduce costly unscheduled downtime. Let our in-transit repair team help you with:
- Boiler repair and maintenance
- Prepare boilers for internal inspection
- Retubing condensers and heat exchangers
- Shipboard piping systems
- Hull and structural steel replacement
- NDT Services
- Re-powering including replacing engine beds, shafts, and rudders
- Ship alterations using steel, aluminum, stainless, and other alloy materials
- Rivet work and plate caulking repairs
- Complete topside repairs and maintenance
- US Coast Guard certified welding
- Blasting and painting services
- Fuel tank cleaning and gas freeing services
- Hydraulic systems maintenance and repair
- Lift and transport boom truck service: We can get your heavy parts and machinery off the ship, to the repair facility, and then meet you at the next port with your repaired equipment.
- In-transit repair team available
Installing new rub rail on USGS motor vessel Togue.
Plant Maintenance
Removing and replacing a 200 hp electric motor at Weyerhaeuser plant in Grayling, Michigan.
When you shut down your plant for scheduled maintenance, or perform maintenance while still operational, you might be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on lost or slowed production. You can't be working with a crew that will hinder you or get in your way. At Schwartz, we’ve been engineering successful and well-managed plant shutdowns and maintenance projects for over 40 years. We understand how to work synergistically with dozens of other contractors all striving towards the same goal—getting the job completed and getting you back up and fully operational on schedule. For hundreds of projects, Schwartz has been the first choice in scheduled plant shutdowns and maintenance in Michigan. Services include:
- Millwrighting services
- Boiler repairs and maintenance
- Crane and rigging services
- Blasting and painting
- High pressure piping and general fabrication
- Motor replacement and alignment
- Assembly line alterations
- Structural steel renewal
- Press maintenance
- Conveyers, belts, pulleys, and bearing installation and repair
- Hydraulic system repairs
- Condenser and heat exchanger work
- Smoke stack, ash pits, and breeching repairs
- Welding, including NB "R" Stamp Authority
Gas & Oil Facility Work
Natural gas refinery reboiler and still at Michigan Pipeline Processing's Antrim plant.
Gas and oil facilities are unique and require specialized skills for any contractor working on them. The Schwartz team has the expertise you'll come to rely on for your repair and maintenance needs. We specialize in:
- National Board "R" Stamp Authority welding
- Plant outages and shutdowns
- Code piping systems
- Pipe, vessel, and tank blasting and painting services
- "Belzona" repairs (liquid metal)
- Tube and bundle cleaning
- Soda blasting
- Hydro-static pressure testing of vessels and piping systems
- Tank entry and inspection
- Crane and rigging services
- Code pressure vessel repairs
- Millwrighting services
- Re-tubing and cleaning of coolers, reboilers, and heat exchangers
Welding & Machine Shop Services
One of Schwartz’s custom yard arms for a residence.
Looking for custom fabrication for heavy equipment, machinery alterations, or structural steel erection? The team at Schwartz can transfer your idea into a real solution. We offer general welding and repair services in addition to National Board "R" Stamp Authority and Section IX ASME welding procedures. We are experienced with carbon steel, aluminum, stainless steel, hard surfacing, copper nickel, and many other alloys. Portable welding rigs are available for on-site services. For residential and building contractors, we offer a very large selection of ornamental steel railings, as well as custom flagpoles and yardarms (steel, aluminum, and fiberglass), and can install railings and flagpoles at your location.
Welding repairs to main ballast tank piping on the motor vessel George A. Sloan.
Need custom machine shop work performed? Schwartz can accommodate many of your needs with our expertise in operations including boring, threading, cutting, keyways, fly cutting, and much more. Our equipment includes a lathe with a 23" swing and three-jaw and four-jaw chucks; Bridgeport mill; and radial drill.
Serving a wide customer base composed of manufacturing, construction, quarry, and aggregate firms, commercial, and even residential customers, we offer you the best in welding and custom machine shop services.
