Steel services company opts for bulk gas system for on-site welding, cutting gases
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Tube City, in Granite City, IL, is a leading provider of outsourced steel services, including raw materials procurement, scrap management, raw materials optimization, slag processing, metal recovery and surface conditioning services to integrated steel mills, mini-mills and foundries. Like many companies with a heavy use of gases for cutting metals, they quickly found themselves overwhelmed with inefficiencies of time and money while catering to their gas supply.
In December 2008, Tube City had enough of these frustrations, peaking with troubles moving 18-packs of oxygen cylinders into and around various fields to cut steel. Adding more cylinders wasn’t the solution, as freight charges to get them there were growing, and just “making due” was no longer an option, as often two or more hours were lost in the moving of cylinder packs and safety was compromised. (more…)